LateNiteLights.

I have a new blog for a reason.

The profound reason : I am a new person entering into a new phase of life (the post college aka "real world"). Perhaps my blog should represent such.

The truth: My other blog keeps flickering and poplocking across the screen...and I have no idea how to fix it. (dreamsmeetreality.blogspot.com)

But as with everything I do...there's a reason behind this blog...from the background down to the title.

If you didn't know, I'm somewhat into astronomy(really just stars). As a child , my father always used to show me , my mom and my sister the stars. We'd go outside on vacation (in Upstate NY) and look to the skies. I would always miss the shooting stars but I didn't care. I was amazed enough by the stars period. I vividly remember him telling us "It's too bright in the city for you to see this back home..."

I get to high school and see that I can take Astronomy. I get in the class, see numbers and measurements and other crap that I don't care about. Astronomy as a science lacks passion. It researches and documents a beautiful phenomena/part of nature but still...

Still, what my father said sticks in my mind. You can't see the stars in the big city. I'm from NYC...the epitome of "big city". And too often do we forget the little things(stars). We cant "see" them because there's too much going on. Naturally, we all tend to believe we will all be relevant on a large scale. But when I hear "star" I don't think fame.

I think shining. I think collective (because all stars are close to each other...which does not reflect in human "stars"). But , if you don't give yourself the opportunity to escape from the commotion and see the stars/sky/space for as what it is (a wonder of life) you will never view them as I do. So that explains the night sky/moon theme on this blog and the stars background on my old blog. It also explains a lot about how I see life...but that's obvious.

And this blog is LateNiteLights...not only because it's easy to remember, but because Late Nites are my time. I get introspective. I tend to "feel" things more late at night than I do in the sun. It's easier for me to think. I reserve late nights like these (it's definitely 438 am right now...) to think about everything. To take things in another direction , my laptop is like a night light for me. You know how a child is afraid of the dark , so they need something to shine and make them comfortable? I'm like that...except I don't fear the dark. I fear not saying what I really mean to...and blogging does that for me. Not to say I don't express myself in real life...but there are only so many hours in a day. I have more thoughts than I could ever have time for...and this is the perfect solution.

With that said...hopefully you enjoy what I do here over time. Goodnight.