An ad fontes, if you will

As many of you know I am studying abroad in the land of the Dutch, the Netherlands, Maastricht to be exact. While I have had long weekends to do travelling and go on a certain number of adventures including nights of quite epic proportions I have had the chance to stop and reflect on myself among others. Now I have met some wonderful people on this venture that I may otherwise never have met while at Baylor and for that I am thankful. Also thanks to a certain someone, who has had previous mention on this site, most of the group has an idea of me and for that I carry a rather perplexing, somewhat interesting, reputation. Not to say that is a bad thing but I haven't been the nicest of guys during certain parts of my career. And so as things go I met someone, and while I'm not the one to believe in love at first site and other romantic ideas of that sort, and I developed a "crush" on her. Now that comes with it's own problems as she has a "significant other," to whatever extent you are allowed to use your own imagination. As the story goes we had become close through our conversations and we entered what can be called as the French say a drôle de guerre, or "phony war." History joke... meaning nothing was happening, just a build up. Much to my expectations when it came time to discuss what to do about this "forbidden love," we logically decided that nothing should come of it as she is involved and I had still been experiencing a degree of heart-break, see my other blog... So as I sit today I suddenly realized that falling for someone is not something that I have sought to do, as a matter of fact, historically, I would want the opposite. Thus today marks the end of my Middle Ages or medieval period and the beginning of my own ad fontes or "back to the source." A new era in which I am to be reborn and strive to reject the past era and return, if I may, to Classical me, a time when my mind and body were of utmost importance. This new "Renaissance of Me" as it's called, will not put me through any suffering, simply waiting for time to happen, but to be given a rebirth and the chance to truly live! This new way and outlook on life is inspired as one could guess, from the Italian Renaissance, but mine should prove to be much more interesting as I will bring about a new era, of course a slightly narrower scale than that of the Italians, but more a more important one to me personally. To wrap up this brief on the state of me, you can all expect a little something new to come, a boost of confidence and an air of elegance and appreciation for that of which I am capable.