James Buckley

**Disclaimer: This post is long and full of ramblings. I hope it makes sense, and if for some reason to read through to the end, I'm amazed at your dedication, and you might need a life** I have a problem. Not a huge problem, but it affects a lot of what I do day to day.. I'm loyal to a fault. That sounds like a good thing right? I'm here to explain why that's not entirely true. In the past year, I lost a friend. This friend had been one of my closest friends since I was 12 years old (for those keeping score at home, I turn 21 in about a month). To this day, I'm not sure what happened with the friendship. I don't know if I did something to offend him, or if he just needed to go a different way... But it's sad! I miss him. Here's the crazy part of the story: If he called me right now and asked me to do ANYTHING. I'd be there in a heartbeat. Not to win back his friendship or whatever, but because a person I cared about needed my assistance...

Hello!  Welcome! My name is James Buckley. If you're here reading this blog, you most likely know me well enough to see me promoting this space... Now that I have you here though, let me break it down for you: This is the place where my thoughts and opinions will be posted, hopefully as coherently as possible. There will be sports (anyone who knows me knows that 75% of my attention is paid to sports), and there will be posts about whatever lessons I find in daily life. I tend to ramble, so hopefully we'll keep that to a minimum as well. I've had a love of writing ever since a young age. I haven't always expressed my emotions very well in a spoken manner, and it often came out jumbled or unsure if I tried. I found comfort in relaxing, and writing down the swirling thoughts I had.  Writing was my get-away! I could go anywhere I wanted, do anything I wanted and feel any way I wanted. Quite often, I'll find myself feeling a weird mix of emotions and no idea what...