Saturday, 30 August 2008

Has it started now...?

Ok, so it's a Saturday morning, I rang Rob half an hour ago as I promised I would, just to make sure he was awake and getting ready for work- he's getting "time and a half" today as its a Saturday and he's got to help move everything into a bigger warehouse- sounds fun!

As I lay in my bed after, I asked myself, "Why on earth am I continuously waking up between 6 and 7 every morning?"
Well, it could partly be down to these 5 factors:
  1. The two (5mth old) lambs out in the yard bleating in unison to go back in the field with the rest of the flock
  2. The sound of the sparrows that are living between the tiles above my bedroom as they stretch their wings and get in tune for a day of unending flittering and tweeting
  3. The sound of the hundreds of crows that pitch down into the buildings out on the farm every morning to take advantage of the free wheat that has been stored there for the last year
  4. The distant and faint sound of the power shower humming in Mum and Dad's room as Ruth starts the procedure of her vacillating "spruce up" session for her day at Cribbs Causeway
  5. Or maybe its the morning sun light that is infiltrating my room by peeping around the door and penetrating through the thin material that makes up my curtains- it is a white light; fresh and offers the assumption that it will be a fair weather today- which is good as we have hay laying down trying to dry out to be fit for baling
The 6th option I think is probably the most likely to my early awakenings- its in its own league and therefore given a paragraph of its own rather than just being in a list:

That is that my mind is like a track of thoughts racing after each other around my head, this is mixed with unwelcome nerves that are being pumped through my gut- they just appeared, I didn't ask for them or put them there, they just decided to exercise there actions within me.

Its simple why, and seems like a minor thing when put into one sentence: in two weeks time I will be finishing my year's work at church and then a week later I will be trying my hand at taking on university for the first time.

I lay here in my bed thinking about this new beginning and decided that maybe I should record all that I'm going through. A hand written diary would be too scruffy; I'm a bloke and use bloke's hand writing which is appalling compared to that of many women. So I thought about keeping a typed diary through Microsoft Word, but decided it would be too plain and boring; besides, how can anyone benefit from it if it's stuck on my laptop- I like to do things that benefit other people.

So my final idea was to set up a blog site! It was easy! I don't know how long it will last though.
People can read it once I've moved away from home to see what I've been up to. Strangers can read it and try to catch a glimpse of the character of this young man moving from countryside to city in the UK.

Maybe people will read it and benefit from seeing solutions to problems and issues that I go through; that is if I go through problems and issues, my life might be perfect from now, a continuous high... I doubt it, that's not human!


So the question is, "Has it started now?" This new adventure in my life- what's going to change, what's going to stay the same? Follow my blog and find out with me. I guess over time and writings you'll find out more and more bits about me as though putting together one of those 3-dimensional jigsaw puzzles in the shape of Will Tratt (there aren't many about)

One thing I suppose I could let you in on now is that I am a firm believer of/in a man who walked the Middle Eastern lands of this world. He was then brutally killed one day (unfortunately it had to happen if things were to be the way they are) It gets better though, he was raised from the dead (an amazing miracle) by his own father!
I've got a pretty cool relationship with that guy and his dad, my dad also- I hope you get to experience some of that relationship as my days unfold.

I'm now going to get up and put together a comprehensive list of all the things I need to get and prepare for university.