I found God on the corner of First and Amistad.

Tomorrow begins Lent.
(Well, actually Lent starts today, since it's after midnight, but whatever.)

Yes, it's a crazy Catholic thing.
But it's not, really.
I mean, it's not JUST a Catholic/religious thing.

Lent is about preparing and improving. For some people, it's a religious thing. But I don't think it necessarily HAS to be. I think the idea is more universal than that.
We all have room for improvement. And we all need a little life-evaluation every so often. It's so easy to get so caught up in the day-to-day that you forget. We all need that kind of refocusing every once in a while. To take a step back and redirect ourselves in the way we want to go.
Maybe to resolve to be more spontaneous. Or not to let the little things get you down. Or to do one thing that scares you every day. Or to finally take the steps to live out a dream.
If we don't look at our lives every once in a while, I think we get lost...bogged down, doing the same things over and over and not REALLY living at all.
It's about improvement. And that's how I look at it every year. It's not about sacrifice and making yourself miserable. It's about the challenge, and it's about striving to find weakesses and fill them.

This year I'm going to go to church every week. I haven't been...it's harder in college. So I think that's a good one.
I'm also going to limit my online time to 15 minutes a day. Because I waste more time than I should, and there are better things I can be doing.
Those are my main ones. But I'm also going to try to be more positive and take more risks...everyday is an opportunity. I want to make sure I take full advantage of it.

So. Here's to 40 days of improving. And here's to not letting it stop at just 40 days.
Let's start now.