The Sea Trilogy ended with 2015 and now 2016 has ended the original trilogy, what started the decade of themes in the first place. The best years of my life parts 1, 2, and 3.
2016 was also known as the year that was nonstop, influenced by Hamilton, and a dream telling me to change the title from my original idea. This stored idea may very possibly resurface someday, but not this year.
In so many words, 2016 was everything I said it would be. It. Did. Not. Stop. The good, the bad. It just kept going. I understand for many, this was one of the worst years if not the worst, so I feel a little bad calling it the best of my life but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't.
Starting off in London certainly set the stage and I ran with it from there. I gained a new perspective for the world and for myself. I did so many things even I couldn't keep up with writing them all down. You can call me crazy, but I think that's already a given with these themes. I became a new person while abroad. Who I was before leaving and who I was after being there were different people with some of the classic qualities sticking around. For those keeping count, I'm on the 5th version of myself: the prime mattiejpwn years.
I did not think I could keep it up when I returned back home, but my final term of college was pretty much a 10 week send off party for me. It has been the last few months where I found myself struggling to keep things on the up and up. This brings us to where we are now. With the end of the year being the worst of it all I've questioned myself, what I want, what defines me, and how to go forward from a sad ending I brought on myself.
Well, this year is different. Hamilton is still a large influence in my life. I'm taking back the Pirate's code and breaking every rule I made for myself. I've completed two trilogies so you can guess a third one is beginning. However, this trilogy will take place all in the course of one year. It starts with an intermission. Currently that's where we are. Nothing much is happening. I'm still moving on from the end of last year. It would be too easy to close myself off and disappear. So that's what I've done. But only for a certain amount of time. After that begins the next chapter. My first year out of college. Everything is up in the air. Conflicts from before still linger, good things from before will reappear in new ways. There may be a musical number. Old characters will return and new ones will show up. This year I keep fighting for what I've always been fighting for. To continue being me. To believing in love and the good in the world. We're mixing it up this time. Mixing the new with the old. The curtain is starting to rise and the story continues. I hope we can all enjoy the show. Please silence your phones.
2017: Act Two
So where does the third part of this trilogy fit in? September 1st, 2017 holds a lot of significance. It is, as it is written, an epilogue. But where I will be by then is anyone's guess.
