Love 2.1 (Sneak Peek)

Hey readers!! I'm currently in the process of writing two blogs at the moment. One that is long overdue and another to commemorate my 21st birthday that kind of fell out of the sky and into my lap. It's amazing when inspiration will strike! I've been so busy with work and trying to live a life outside of work that I have neglected everything literary. My deepest apologies and to make it up to you I have a sneak peek of my birthday post called "Love 2.1". I gave it that name for a couple of reasons. I went through some key moments in that past year and I give my thoughts about life and what I've learned that are responsible for making me the person I am at the moment. It's been a beautifully painful journey, but one that I don't regret in any way. The title itself is based on how love has changed me in so many ways. I have reached this whole new level that I can't wait to explore and grow in. So here it is, a sneak peek of "Love 2.1":


"Here I sit in a room where I did a lot of growing up in the past year. I look around at these four walls that created an environment entirely made of love and freedom. I look at the pictures on my dresser slightly covered in dust because of my lack of tidying up skills. I’m in almost all of them and I used to think that was because I am very vain, but looking at them now I see my face in a different background each telling a different story, but with the same smile that just says, “Hey look, Ben! You were here!” I like to look at this like an emotional growth chart. It’s me in all these pictures, but I was at a different emotional state in all of them. It starts out awkward and afraid to rebellious and troubled to hitting rock bottom before settling to working my way up. I can honestly say that I have felt more alive in the past year than I ever have in my entire life. A lot of it had to do with making some drastic decisions, taking some risky chances and ultimately stop trying to force everything and just let them happen in their own time. . ." 


I look forward to posting it very soon along with "Welcome". Stay tuned! 


Xoxo.
B.

"Welcome" (Sneak Peek #2)

"It was done, my resignation was written. I kept reading the small paragraph that I wrote over and over, from top to bottom making sure that my point was being made and also, making sure that I had actually did it. I had no plan ready to be set in motion once I would turn it in. I pretty much had no plan at all. This literally was something that I woke up one day and decided to do. The Hut had taken everything I had over the last five years: my time, energy, happiness, soul. If freedom cannot be given then it has to be taken and my weapon of choice was this sentence: “I hereby turn in my two weeks’ notice.” And just like that, I was on my way to a new life, a new job and a new start. The only question was where was it? After turning it my resignation to one of my assistant managers I went about my day like I always did except there was an expiration date waiting for me. Sure, all kinds of questions were running through my mind: “What am I going to do about money?” “What if I don’t find another job?” “Will I have to beg for my job back?” “Is Mariah Carey hiring for backup vocalists?” I ran through all the possible scenarios in my head to see if I could handle any situation that I may come across in my unemployment. I probably had enough in my savings to be out of work for at least two months. And then something happened that I didn’t see coming on the day that I turned in my notice . . . I got offered a job."

The plot thickens!

Working on the rest today. Hopefully I'll have it ready to post tonight. Xoxo!

"Welcome" (Sneak Peek)

"I had always had this vision in my head that one day I’d sit down and write my resignation. I thought about what I would say and how they would react to it, I thought about how I would defend myself if it was questioned, and yes, I even thought about the speech I would make at my farewell party. Some days I would sit at a booth and stare out the window daydreaming about what life would be like outside my cage made of metal and glass. For years I had always said I was going to leave and for years I watched as people before me spread their wings and fly far away from a life of three twenty-five an hour and cheap tippers. No one took me seriously when I would talk about it. Hell, I barely believed myself sometimes. But it was this vision in my head that told me to be patient; my time would come when I was ready for it. Then one day I snatched a piece of paper from the printer and sat at the third booth from the door and wrote the words: “To Whom It May Concern . . . “at the top of the page. . . ."

I finally have found the time to jot my thoughts down long enough to post a sneak peek of what I'm working on. Get ready to enter a world that this veteran of the food industry has never ventured out into before, but that means leaving behind all that I knew. Find out how this story ends! 

Xoxo.

B.