This'll be my first ever post on my first ever account here so what better a time to talk about writing a mini-description of myself. I mean, describing myself isn't a difficult task at all. If you want me to tell you about my personal history or my likes or hobbies, that's a cake walk. But when I do that, am I really saying anything? I suppose these sorts of mini-biographies are meant to just give the reader a general sense of the person they're describing, but man, they are sure vague. For instance, during my childhood for a period of about seven years I lived in Europe - first in England and then the Netherlands, where I learned to speak Dutch fluently. Additionally I've travelled to at least nine other countries and I've been to probably over thirty of the U.S. states. Just going off of that information alone you might get the impression I'm adventurous, or perhaps you'd assume I'm very outgoing with a rich social life with friends I keep in contact with from all over the world. To which I'd say: not really. Or what if I mention that I play the piano, and I'm an NBA fan, and I graduated salutatorian of my high school class, and I like alternative rock and new-metal music, and my father is a Vietnam vet and a retired professional pilot, and I'm half Filipino. Yes, it's all true, but you may draw wildly different assumptions about me just based on these broad statements. Sure, I play the piano. I've been playing for roughly ten years. Am I good at it? Nope. Can I read sheet music? Yeah, but not very well. Do I know musical theory? Hardly. Did I have a piano teacher? I did. An extremely talented woman who lived on a farm taught me for a few years back in sixth and seventh grade. Yeah, I'm a basketball fan, but only in the last year or two have I actually seriously started following the NBA. I could keep going but I think you get the point. I guess the lesson here is to continuously write. If you want your readers to have a truer sense of who you really are, the only way to convey yourself is to communicate it. One thing I've realized is that the more you write about yourself, the more you realize how little of your life you've actually written. Here's a quote that I think is uniquely created by me but has probably been made by someone sometime before: a lifetime of experience requires a lifetime of writing to tell it.