Well, here it goes..

Fuck, I wish that I could muster up a better title to the first post of my fancy-pants new blog. This post is special, after all. It marks the beginning of my identity as a more serious blogger and writer. Sure, I have maintained a Tumblr since 2009, but that isn't blogging in its most serious form. Even though I spend plenty of time wishing I was a blogger, I never found it within myself to maintain a real blog. I always had one that sat untouched all by itself within the vast and lonely expanse of internet.

So, here I am, Blogger.com. I am offering myself to you. From this day forward, I'd like to take this much more seriously. Here is a platform for my improvement as a writer. The only time that I ever sit down to really write something is when I am assigned to in class. Other than that, the laureate within me only comes out when I feel like journaling or when I feel like writing a little something on Tumblr. That hardly cuts the mustard! All the time, people ask me if I write. I say that I do, but in all honesty, I really don't. I'd like to put a stop to that lie. That is why I came to you, Blogger.com. You can help me become the writer that I have been pretending to be.

While the title of my first post is lame as all hell, the title of my blog is anything but. I gathered the inspiration from learning about Transcendentalism in my American Literature class. I have been thinking a lot about what it means to transcend. How can one transcend and what does it mean to be transcendent? My reliable pal Merriam Webster told me and I think it's important to cite:

tran·scen·dent

adjective \-dənt\

1

a : exceeding usual limits 

b : extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience

c in Kantian philosophy : being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge

2

: being beyond comprehension

3

: transcending the universe or material existence 

With this blog, I hope to transcend. I want to exceed ordinary limits to levels that are beyond comprehension. For me, there it no better way to be transcendent than to write. The written word is beautiful and powerful. It has done more for me than any material object or fabricated belief ever has. This is not to say that my writing is transcendent itself and superior. As an individual looking to improve herself, I feel that the best way to transcend is to write.

And with this, I wrap up my first blog post. It's a bit rough thus far, I know. Becoming a successful and transcendent blogger will take time, so please be patient and enjoy my blog.