Hello! My name is Christian, and yes, I am a Christian (pun VERY MUCH intended in the title). I’ve just joined a club of billions of people today, called the “I’m-going-to-publically-post-things-that-I-say,-feel,-think,-do,-and-learn-for-the-whole-world-to-see Club” that I’m sure that you have already been a part of since your Mom said it was alright for you to have a Facebook. Actually, if those people are included, I guess I’ve been kind of part of this club since freshman year of high school and that you’ve been in it ever since you got a Myspace without your Mom actually knowing about it. So why in the world, Christian, do you feel the need to now start a blog and just blabber about a hundred times more words than you already do in your online media?
Let’s analyze the title here, A Christian’s Life. Ha! Very punny, Christian! So, what, are you going to join the number of COUNTLESS Christian blogs out there in the web and just add one more little voice among the bazillions of voices that are mostly more important or influential than your own? And are you seriously going to be just like one of those typical Mormons like so many of the ones in your church that go on and on about how great life is and show us pictures of your family while trying to get me to hop on some bandwagon of happiness that will make me want to live a life like yours? Um… well, yeah, I guess. Does anyone have any objections to that?... NOPE CAN’T HEAR YOU! All right, moving along then.
It’s true that there are so many greater bloggers out
there. And it’s true that many members
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do share their personal and
spiritual lives via social media these days.
In fact, when I tried to proudly surprise my best friend (who is not a
member of my church) by announcing to him that I would soon be starting up a
blog, he simply responded, “Well, I don’t know why you didn’t do that
before! It’s such a popular thing for
you Mormon people!” Funny how we can fit
right into our stereotypes, right?
However, I want to make it clear.
The purpose of this blog is NOT to try to have my voice penetrate some
great number of people and create tons of friends and enemies (although, that
can be inevitable in some cases). In
fact, if I was aiming to become more popular from this, I’d probably write about
something more kid-friendly like Healthcare, gun rights, the death penalty, or any
other of those easily solvable political issues. The purposes of this blog are to 1. make few
people smile and 2. to touch the lives of a few important people. I may not even know who you all are, but if
you just trust me, I promise that I will be as supportive as humanly possible.
So, who is this
Christian guy anyway and why should I take the time to read about him and his
life anyway?
That’s a very good question.
I will tell you a little about myself while giving some of the top
reasons that I believe that this blog and the future blogs that I post will be
worth your time:
1.
I’m not
ugly. You heard me right; one of the
top reasons that you should read this is the fact that I’m not ugly. Well, not THAT ugly I guess. Maybe for some of you ladies out there, I
should actually put “I’m not ugly AND I’m single…” Wow, you sure can’t find a more appealing
case than that! If you want my number,
you’ll have to get it personally.
Actually, this is my number one reason, because I know how poor our
reading skills (especially for we Americans) have gotten these days, and I
seriously doubt there will be many that will put up that much effort to read
this many words. Hence, I will let you
know that I am NOT UGLY so that you WILL put enough effort to look at the
pretty pictures that come with the blog!
Hopefully that will be good enough to at least keep you on this page for
a few seconds. You college students,
when was the last time you actually opened the book for your American History
class to read it by yourself? Yep,
that’s what I thought! You can just skip
the words and look at the pretty pictures of this blog if you want to, just
like some of us do with literature.
Hopefully, my beautiful family and my “not ugly” looks will be enough
for you to actually start reading the words to this thing though.
2. I’m not
your average Latter-day Saint. Why
not? Aren’t you contradicting yourself
by actually being a typical Latter-day Saint by writing this blog? Well, first of all, I’m not your average
Mormon because I’m from Texas, not Utah (no offense to this beautiful place
where I am currently living). Second of
all, actually, YES I am your typical Latter-day Saint in most ways. For those of you who do not know what a
“Peter Priesthood” or a “Molly Mormon” is, go and look them up in your closest
Mormon dictionary. If there’s a picture
of me with a dorky smile next to the definition, then I wouldn’t be TOO surprised,
and actually, I’d be quite proud. But,
honestly, there is no such thing as an “average” Latter-day Saint. They are all very unique and most are quite
EXCEPTIONAL people. “Average” would do
none of the members any justice in their description. I go to Brigham Young University, a private
school of 32,000 students that are mostly LDS, and I cannot begin to tell you
how interesting it is to see the differences between all of these people that
share the same faith. You want to find
an interesting sort of people? Come up
to Provo, Utah at BYU. You would love
it. You want to read an interesting
blog? Read this one. You will love it.
3.
I’m an
all-around kind of guy. There’s
SOMETHING that we share in common.
SOMETHING. I haven’t found a
single person that I don’t share at least one common thing with. I always try to be friends with everyone, and
one of the main things that has helped me to be somewhat successful is that I
have so many interests. For example, I’m
a man, and I love sports AND theatre.
What?? That only happens with the
guys in High School Musical!!!Well, guess what, I AM High School Musical. That is my life in action (except for getting the pretty girl in the end. Sadly, I haven’t been able to accomplish that part.) I also love country music, alternative, and even very select rap, emo, and heavy metal songs. I love animals and I love people. I love to party and I love to have deep spiritual conversations about life. I could go on and on. The fact is that if you and me aren’t friends, we should be. We share something too! Don't be a stranger, and hopefully, I can be a good “friend” by posting this blog every once in awhile.
So, I hope that I’ve made this relatively interesting and
that I haven’t destroyed the little motivation that existed before to continue
reading this before I gave my reasons. BUT just because of reason #1, I KNOW
that you haven’t been able to take your eyes off the page! OR that's what drove you to abandon this page immediately...
Give me feedback on all of your thoughts, feelings,
impressions, thanks, or criticisms on anything I write whether it’s just a
sentence, a paragraph, or an epistle.
I’m open to just about anything, so even if you tell me that I actually
am pretty ugly, then I’ll even take that constructive criticism with gratitude
and thanksgiving. Also, if you have any
questions about me, the college life, sports, theatre, Greek philosophy, my
attractive roommates, etc. or if you have a request for me to touch a certain
subject, let me know.
If you like this blog (or not), I highly recommend you go
read “The Fox Tales” a blog that my gorgeous older sister writes. She’s a young wife and mom with the cutest
little one-year old that you’ve ever seen (more pretty pictures!!). She’s also much more witty and eloquent than I am so that
she’ll keep you intrigued from start to finish.
That's all for now, but we're just starting things off! Until next time!
Christian Hutchinson
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