Today's lesson: Learning to blog.

I have never tried this before. There are so many sites to choose from. There are so many topics. I don't know what tag line to attach. I don't know what photos to share. I don't know what to say. I have only been on 2 hours and already feel judged. My hub score dropped 4 points while I was editing it.

I feel like I should have had a plan before I started. I feel like I don't know anything. It's a pretty good analogy to my life. I have never tried it before. There are so many choices to make, and I feel constantly judged.

However, is a plan absolutely necessary? On a blog? no. I can write, rewrite, add, delete, start over. In Life? yes, no, maybe. I guess it depends on what you want to accomplish. You can always have a "do over".

The "do over" comes with a price. Your past can affect your present. The "do over" does not come with a delete feature. If you have wronged someone, their memory could be permanent. If you have wronged yourself by abusing your body or mind, the damage could be permanent. So the "do over" is allowed, you just don't get the perfect, unscarred, body or past to work with. What you get is a second try to do better with your life experiences in tact.

Is this completely unfair? No. Think of all the people who would like to return to the past with the knowledge they know now and do it over again. I, on the other hand, really have no desire to return to the past to do it over again.

My goal from this day forward is to do it better from now on. I will improve this site. I will improve my life. I will try not to get overwhelmed with all the choices I need to make and all the things left undone.

Today is a new beginning. My blog will improve. My life will improve.

My first lesson was learning to blog, but really the lesson learned: life is a learning process, you cannot always be prepared for every contingency. You can change your path, but not your past.