The Start
Author - Clyryam of willowbottom
Written on - Saturday 28th August 2010 (09:10pm)
For the past few months I have felt unrest. I seem bored, yet I have many things to attend to. I know I should be perfectly happy tending to my garden ( for the flowers and vegetables grow abundant this year), yet peace I cannot find. Hours I have sat musing about thoughts that before had never even entered my sphere of thoughts. Yet, how come? What change has been brought about? Rest I cannot find, not even in the things that where so joyful for me before. My daily tasks have become an annoyance for me, and I find little happiness in the routine. My neighbors are ever so friendly, yet I prefer the lonely company of my thoughts.
I find myself unable to live my life like this, and therefore I have taken the great example of the Bagginses, that is, of Frodo and Bilbo, and I will take to the road. I shall not tell my family and neighbors, for they will be much distressed. They will think folly has taken hold of my sense, yet I know it isn't folly, I dare say, it is common sense. A person is not wholly grown until one has seen the world. My plan is to wander across the countries of middle earth, and learn and see. For traveling broadens the mind. Hopefully I will visit the Elves first.
Now that I have thought of this plan I seem to be more calm. Thoughts do not race through my brain at unearthly hours, and I am able to sleep again. This is very soothing, and it confirms the correctness of my decision. Now I must learn more about the map, and see where I want to go, and where I will go first.
Hopefully my next entry will be in the lush forest of an elven city!
