About me (I feel so self centered, heh.)

I guess it would be best to make this first post about me. As I guess 99.9% of all other personal blogs probably do. Why break such a great tradition?

First- get all the mundane facts out of the way. I am female, and I am twenty at the time of writing.

I am a full time student in England- where I study Biology, my favourite and best subject back at school.

Previous to university I lived (and still live when I am not away at university or very occasionally abroad) in Northern Ireland. My parents live there, with my sister, who is one year my junior (19! Still a teenager, I feel so old). She herself is going to start an arts degree next academic year, and I wish her every success in this venture. She's a smart cookie, and really can do anything she puts her mind to it. Although I am no artist, I know what I like and I definitly admire her work.

(After all it actually LOOKS like art, but even her less traditional pieces look great to me, but that's just my opinion).

I am an ex-christian, and an agnostic. The majority of my friends know of this (and I have a feeling my sister knows), but my parents are yet to hear the 'bad news'. I became a christian at 7 or 14 (it depends on your definition- the first time was out of fear of hell, the second because of fear for a friend's life, I may post about that later). Before you ask, I truely honestly believed it. I realised I no longer believed just under a year ago. At first I was angry at precious time spent on such a fear but now I understand that these things happen. My family didn't mean to mislead me, after all they honestly believed it (and still believe it) themselves.

I do not hate Christians, and I really was one. Many people I've spoken too seem to be afraid of that, because they verbally attack me for it. They cannot fantom leaving the faith. They call be heretic, liar, you name it. I try not to judge though. Many are scared of the fact I left, because if I one christian can lose the faith- whose to say they can't? I cannot hate, it is not in my nature. I can dislike your attitude intensely but I cannot hate you, particulary in cyberspace, where I do not know you enough anyway.

In the future, I hope to be involved in conservation, I hope to see the world. To BE a traveller from place to place, rather than just walking through life in terms of time.

Who knows? I may very well see you some day.

From one traveller to another....