With 110% Honesty

Hi, my name is Ashley. I'm a 22 year old student at the University of Central Florida. In December I will be graduating. For the first time in over 17 years I will not be a student. My whole life I have lived in this protective bubble formed by my family, school, and church life. I've always had someone backing me up, someone to catch me if I was falling too hard.

In the last month I have officially moved out of my parents house paying my own rent and all that. I've been paying a lot of my own bills for the last couple of years, but now I am officially on my own. I also worked on a feature film for the first time. This has opened so many doors to me with meeting new people and making connections that could help my career immensely as I prepare to enter the field full time.

Through all these outward changes, there have been some major internal ones too. Growing up is a slow but steady process that is different for everyone. One of the biggest factors that has changed are my relationships with other people: my parents, my friends, my coworkers, and just people in general. I think that this change and my adaptation to it is something that will define who I am as a person and how others see me. My goal for this blog is to continually update this and give a full account of my life. I will be completely honest as I have never been before.

I'm not someone who believes in keeping my own secrets. I subscribe to an open book policy. I like to answer questions and explain to other people how and why I see the world as I do. There are always at least three people in the world that know everyone of my secrets. You are now about to become one of those people.

While I am going to be honest about myself, I do have to protect the other people in my life. Events, facts, and my opinions and views on life are going to be completely accurate - as accurate as they can be from one person's point of view - but I will be changing names to protect my friends and family. You will know these names have been changed because an * at the end of the name the first time it's posted will indicate this.

One more piece of information about this blog - I'm going to be tagging these all by relationships. i.e. romantic, female friends, male friends, parents, brother, etc.

If you have any questions or anything, please just leave a comment and I will try to respond as soon as possible.