The first entry.

I wonder if it's true that the first defines the rest.  That the beginning foreshadows the middle and end--if there is an end!  If it's true, then this is one very important entry.  But why should this one entry carry such a heavy burden?  Is this first entry really responsible for the state of the rest of this blog?  

Maybe not.

I'd like to think that no matter what the first is like, one can always choose to progress, and progress, and progress.  Until, one day, we look back, back to the very first, and think I can't believe that was me.