There’s nothing like a Birthday to cause a little self-reflection. What better way to reflect on my past year that with a techy tool. Thanks to my friend Julia, I discovered this nifty little toy Tweet Cloud. It’s a textual analysis of your twitter stream – pulling in the words and phrases that you’ve used the most over a set period of time. I went with looking at the past year and what I found is located in the cloud to the right. Take a look at it. It’s a beautiful thing that captures what the past year has really been – positive energy, laughter, friends and people. This has been an amazing year – one of the best of my life – and it’s nice to see that, through Twitter, I was able to convey so much of that positivity.
I’m sure over the next week – especially once I get settled in my apartment here in New York – I’ll take more time to reflect on where I am in my life. I figure, I’ve pretty much have taken the self-reflective route after every birthday for the last 15 years (I was a very introspective teenager), so I doubt that will truly change. What will change is that all the plotting that I have done with my life is starting to take shape. As a writer, I always daydreamed about being able to craft the narrative of my life. The one thing that I’m learning is that I truly can. Sure, I can’t control anything but, with the right mindset, it’s unbelievable the things that you can control. The past year has been a testament to that – with almost everything going according to the blueprint I crafted a little over a year ago – a year filled with so many positive things, but the biggest one in the cloud is the most important: Love.
