First Post!

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Obligatory picture of me on a very good day. 

 Hey guys!

 So this is my first post on this blog, hopefully, the first of many to come! The second weekend of April was a big one for me as I was inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honors Society, Delta Alpha Pi, International Disability Honors Society, as well as receiving an English department scholarship, all things that I am very excited about! 

 In the future, I hope to be published in one of the society journals as well as competing for an internship in New York at a publishing house that I would absolutely love to work at one day. 
My Honors Society advisor Mrs. Walker, AKA the most amazing human being ever!

My official induction certificate! 

Chair of the English Department, an incredibly wonderful man and I hope to take a class with him! 

 It was a great couple of days, so in light of that, my word for the day is perseverance. 

 Never stop chasing the horizon. And what I mean by that is that even when things are dark and seemingly hopeless or even just dreary and miserable, there is a horizon. And your horizon may be close or it may be far but the great thing about sunrises is that they happen every single day! Isn't that amazing? We get a new dawn and a new hope every day if we choose to look for it. Now that's not to say that one person's night might not be longer than another, sometimes the darkness can last for years and look endless. And sometimes we live lives so full of the sun that people don't understand why we can't see it, but the darkness lives inside us and makes it almost impossible to see the light. Those are the hardest battles and they are also the most rewarding when we finally reach that next horizon. 

 Don't give up on your horizon, it there waiting for you. And it's not going to move, it's a constant line that won't ever disappear even if it takes us a while to find it. 

 Here's to a horizon, and to the first step towards the next one no matter how far it might be. 
Alexandria ~

Location: University of North Texas

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