Ya just can't run from the funnel of love... It's gonna get ya someday.

How to begin a blog about relationships.... I suppose this is a bit of a stretch for a 22 year old lady who has not only- in the grander scheme of things- next to no experience with relationships, but has managed to get herself into some of the worst relationships possible. Ah, to be young and naive! Here is where I will put down the things I have repeatedly denied to myself about my own needs in a relationship, where others can hopefully share some of their own experiences and feedback to my own, and where I will learn to know myself outside of relationship.

A good friend of mine whom I had fallen out of contact with for almost a year, but have since reconnected with told me sometime ago when I was going through a breakup (which, i might add, didn't stick, and is now the same breakup I am going through at present) that I should consider one day writing a book on dating because I've dated so many different kinds of people, noticing that I seemed to be rather aimless when it came to who I lent my time and affection to. I wasn't sure whether this was a compliment, or a bit insulting. But either way, it got me thinking about where I seem to fit in this alarmingly ginormous world full of people all longing for the same things- love and acceptance- and how, where, and whom I was choosing to direct my energies. Now that I articulate it, it seems like such a plain idea that any sane person would at least attempt to be aware of, but I will honestly say I am just now realizing it's importance.

I had initially shrugged off the idea of voluntarily plastering my own romantic experiences somewhere all of cyberspace could see how clueless I was. I have a hard enough time admitting things to myself, let alone friends, family, and even strangers.  MISTAKE NUMBER ONE... Not that people need to know every gory detail, but it can become so easy to fall out of sync with yourself for the sake of love when no one is there outside of it to look after you now and then! This is what friends are for, and even acquaintances, if you're able to keep an open mind and withstand a little judgement.

So this blog is dedicated to me, and my mindless, but fully heartfelt excursions into what Ms. Wanda Jackson likes to call "The Funnel Of Love". I hope that it will keep me in tune with my heart as much as my mind, and that those near to me, as well as those not so near, will find ways of relating to that universal and deceptively complicated thing we call love- for thyself, and others.

I shall conclude this first entry from the inspiration in all her glory. A song I come back to time after time, and feel more and more in tune with (no pun intended) the more I hear it.