Have to Start Somewhere

As I've gone through college I've noticed that some people always seem to have
more stories to tell than other people. These people, I've also realized, can
further be divided into two more categories: people who actually have stories
to tell and people who like to talk a lot. Unfortunately, I feel like I fall
outside of both of these categories, making me very uninteresting at the many
dinner parties I attend.

Once I came upon this realization, that I fall in neither of the camps of
people who have stories to tell, I decided that I would like to be someone who
does have stories to tell, but how where would I get these stories?

After thinking about the entertaining stories I have heard from people over
the years, I decided that the best way to make stories for myself to tell was
to make poor life decisions. People who make poor decisions have interesting
stories to tell. From The Hobbit: a group of strange men show up on Bilbo's
doorstep, inviting him on an adventure that he's not sure whether he'll come
back alive from. A rational person would say, "No, thanks. I'd rather just
chill out and drink tea." A person who always has stories to tell would say,
"Why not? It should be interesting."

Maybe you're not convinced. I did give an example from a fictional story that
is bound to be interesting and turn out well for the person making the poor
decision. I'll accept that maybe making poor life decisions isn't the best way
to come up with stories, but I challenge you to come up with a better way.

My reason for telling this story is to explain why you are reading this story.
Put more simply, my poor life decision that I made was to start a Blog. Why
is this a poor life decision? Because I'm starting graduate school in Physics
and probably don't have time to be writing my thoughts out on the internet.
There are many other reasons why I thought it would be a good
idea to start a blog, which you will probably hear about in later posts, but
the time it would take to actually write the blog posts always made it a
"bad idea" in my mind. How will this give me stories to tell? I'm not entirely
sure yet, but I think it will work out.