Take Two.

There is only one of me. How exciting to know! Have you ever sat down and thought "how many of me are there?" probably not if you are David Anderson, but if you have, you should go see a psychiatrist, because only you are you! In reality, what I am saying is there is only one person that has my name, me! Which I believe is interesting enough to start a blog with. The title has nothing to do with this, its just that it is my second blog here, it seemed appropriate. The more appropriate title would be something to do with identity, like "Identity Crisis" or something cool like that.

It seems like identity is a good thing to talk about, everyone has one, but many people are searching for theirs, many others have even had theirs stolen. How disappointing that must be, but how can anyone really know that you are you besides being you? Corrugated cardboard doesn't ask these questions, because it has its stuff together. Although cardboard is fascinating, the real issue here is identities, isn't it? But this tarry's too far. One should, at one point in their life, take some time out to seriously reflect on themselves to figure out, who am I? This question has led many people, musicians, artists, politicians to the journey that has put them on their path of self-actualization. As Caterpillar said to Alice, Who Are You? Seriously, who are you? are you the extrovert who loves to socialize, making friends and tweeting about everything they've done within a sitting? Or are you the introvert, preferring books to parties, intellectuality over excitability, and having the capability to spend multiple hours on the Internet or alone reading? Maybe you're saying, gosh, I'm not either of those, what's the deal? The fact is, you are a snowflake, we all are! Not one of us is exactly the same as others, of course, certain things are predictable about you. Like health, if your parents and their parents were chain smokers, chances are you are more likely to take up smoking than others, if all of those individuals developed cancer later on life, you are at a higher risk than others, that is just genes, and hereditary traits. Social norms, also make us pretty predictable, although nowadays many people don't subscribe to these norms, and thus has created a good deal of subcultures that make who you are invariably harder to discover.

Whew, that was longer than I thought it would be, I hope that gave some information to anyone who happens upon this while wondering "Man, who the heck am I? If I may, there are many good tests to take to discover your traits, such as the Keirsey temperament sorter and the personality test based on Jung here: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes1.htm

New Beginnings

Oh Snap. A blog! I always wondered if I would actually ever make one on a website dedicated to blogs, and here I am, blogging it up! As this is the first blog, I'm not going to really discuss anything about my personal biases in depth yet. Also, I have not yet decided what to blog about! I may have opinions, but not so much as to be able to make a sensible blog post that well. I suppose I'll just ease my way into it, one step at a time.

To anybody, including myself, is wondering why I chose to take a quote from Forrest Gump, alter it, and use it as my main blog title, A.) I love the movie, definitely in my top five favorites B.) I love the quote, top ten and C.) When you really get down and think about it, life really is a box of chocolates, from one day to the next, you are never really going to know what you are going to get.

In conclusion, this is likely a blog from a teenager on the crossroads to adulthood, but that probably won't come up much.