It's been more than a year since my last journal entry, and a lot of things have happened. The most prominent of them, I have a warrant for my arrest. Sure, that's bad, but things could be worse. Among other things, I experienced what it's like to be homeless for three or more months. I also dropped out of school, but I'm hoping I'll be able to return and, at the very least, get my GED this year. The school I was going to before was a miserable gathering of wasted flesh anyway. It really did happen like I thought it would. Five years in an alternative school and then a sudden switch to a normal one? Even before going to the alternative school, I always had trouble with homework. It was much worse when I returned. I also got a job, and lost it as well seven or eight months later.

Although all this may seem negative, my outlook on life has drastically changed. I'm more optimistic now, and I've learned that living life weighed down with regrets is not how I want to live it. All the work I was doing on the book I planned to send to a publishing company was lost when I dropped out, since the majority of it was done on the school computers. Looking back, I realized the story of Myst wasn't something that could easily be relayed in a book. Perhaps, some day, I'll get the initiative to spend a lot of time writing it here on deviantART. On a side note, during my roleplaying ventures on Warcraft 3, I found another idea that I really think will get me somewhere. I'm serious about it, and while I haven't starting writing the outline of the story, I'm confident that this will be it. I was even told during a session that the story was worthy of being written down in a lore book, or something he would read in a collection of fairy tales. A classic? I don't think it will be that great, but if there's a chance, I'll take it.

My life? I would never trade it with anyone else.