My First Post!

This is another first for me-blogging.I've always approached all my 'first times' with a lot of skepticism,quite a bit of apprehension and a tinge of thrill.NOthing new this time -only this time I did not even have the guts to use my real name while blogging.

I wonder why I am doing this-this paradoxical act of laying my thoughts and feelings open for the entire world to view and judge,at the same time hiding behind a curtain of anonymity.Laying myself bare while keeping my identity a secret.

I even wonder why I chose this particular name-'Leah ' to sign my posts.Apart from the fact that this name had always held a strange allure for me,its connotations hold particular truth for me at this point in my life.For 'Leah' in Hebrew means 'the weary one'.

And that is what I am -weary and old,too weary for my twenty-nine years.

I have started this blog to see if I can rediscover myself through it,reclaim what I was,become what I always thought I had the potential to be....

Is it too much to ask of a few words on a screen.I think not -words have a strange power -to create,to heal,to excite,to impassion,to subdue-words can be puppets or they can be the strings that help them move or even the hands that control those strings.

In the days to come,let me see where my random thoughts lead me....