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Another blog in a sea full of blogs. The truth is I've thought about making a blog for years, but never followed through. An ugly duckling among a world of tech-savvy peers, I still like to write things down. There's something about holding a pen and writing down your thoughts because you're devoid of a backspace key or an eraser. What flows from your head as your pen dances across the page are thoughts virgin to the world. I usually carry a notepad and pen with me wherever I go because, as I wrote in my blog description, our thoughts are often left unwed to action because our minds are curious and jump from one idea to the next with fervor. So, why a blog? Why now?

I was walking around Old Town in Chicago yesterday with a friend and he asked me what three things I'd like to learn by the time I'm 30 - really an excellent question. I'm committed to a life of learning because the second we stop pursuing knowledge is the second we stop being curious - and being curious is what got us this far. Coincidentally, at the same time I was having a conversation with another friend via text messages about life's greatest pursuit (four letter word, starts with "L") and she suggested I start a, you guessed it, blog... and here we are.


Three things I'd like to learn by the time I turn 30:

1. Spanish (at least more than I currently know)
2. Web development
3. How to maintain a blog
I can't promise I'll be able to maintain this blog and continue populating it with articles, but hey, I've got 2.5 years to figure it out.

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