Blog Change!!

I guess I wanted to change the title and purpose of my blog.  I am thinking this will be more therapeutic for me than anything but I hope some good people stumble upon it.  My name is Braden Dennis, I am 24 almost 25, going to school at BYU Idaho, single, and a Mormon.  It seems like people in the Mormon culture get married between the ages of 18-23.  It feels like that is when people are supposed to get married at least.  I am almost 25 and its been kinda rough going through the process of still being single.  I assume there are others out there and I hope to reach them and know that they aren't the only ones, because sometimes that is what I feel.  I feel that many of my friends, former roommates, and the various people I have met at church are married.  I am still single.  I am writing this in my journal of happiness and single life.  Its hard but that is my goal.  I am going to document it and see how it goes.  I decided to do this because today 7/22/12 I felt that life finally caught up with me and punched me in the gut.  What happened?  I know you're dying to know, juicy gossip right?  I have been going on dates with a girl, lets call her Katie.  She is an amazing person, I felt a connection with her unlike anyone that I have ever dated.  We have moved slowly and just gotten to know each other (which has been totally fine with me).  I of course want to date her eventually but still progress.  It seems like our relationship has become stagnant.  I told her I wanted to go forward at what rate I don't care as long as I don't become that "Gay Friend" and let me define "Gay Friend" which is the guy friend that a girl tells all of her problems but has no chance whatsoever dating.  I don't want to become that guy.  She is almost 6 years younger than me but, very mature from what I can tell.  I am a very social person so if I don't talk to people, it does me damage.  I get lonely and think to myself that I am not wanted and well, I am hard on myself.  When I do activities I don't like doing them by myself at all, but some I don't mind. So what am I going to do?  I always feel better after I go running.  I want to try and start running  before I leave at work each morning at 7:20am.  I love doing things outside so that is a thing that makes me happy.   Here is a good quote about life by Randy Pausch “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

How to be happy:
http://www.purposefairy.com/3308/15-things-you-should-give-up-in-order-to-be-happy/

I am going to do these things and be happy,  I will write about how its going.  Have a good day!!

― Randy Pausch