Decided that now that the site has a bit more organization, making actual blog posts won’t make finding UNWOUND difficult anymore! So that’s good.
So, bit of an introduction. Samantha Adalwulf, I’m the author of everything on the blog, there’s an About Me page now. Until fairly recently I lived in Portland and am getting into the swing of stuff now that I’m not there anymore. Portland’s a nice city, when the sun hits it right, but the cost and the emotional toil was too much, so I had to leave it behind.
To an extent this blog, Strike the Horizon, is an attempt at putting my life back together. I’ve spent a very long time letting other people dictate what I was going to do, feeding my erratic attention and focus into things and people that did nothing to deserve it.
It’s better now. As I’m typing this, I suppose that is the message of this blog post, as I’m nearing the upper middle point of UNWOUND and making plans for my next series and projects. When you’re in a pit, when you think there’s no path forward, all you can do is keep moving.
Life isn’t perfect. It can be brutal, short, and sometimes you happen to live in a period of time where things seem to be collapsing around you. You can, in fact, be living in a time where everything is literally collapsing around you. And when that happens, there’s only one thing you can do: keep trying. And that’s easier when you have people who can help you.
I’m lucky I found the people I did. People who helped me escape the situation I was in, people who help me to see the person I can be instead of the person I was made to feel I was. I hope I get to thank them properly in the future, if everything works out. All I can do is push forward and work towards what needs to happen for that to become a reality. It’s tough, because of course it is. But what else is new? Stagnation was tough. Being trapped and listless was tough. But that was the kind of tough that numbs you, hollows you out. This difficulty, this new challenge in front of me, just seems to energize me more.
That’s the secret to all of this. The blog, what I’m writing. That’s the meaning of Strike the Horizon. My goal, that future I want, sits just past the edge of the world, waiting for me to run for it. And of course I do. Because the people waiting there are worth it.
Strike the Horizon is a motto. But ultimately, at the end of it all, it’s a message to me, to the world, and to the people I care about, and it means:
I love you.
Can’t promise the blogs won’t all be philosophical breakdowns, but, I presume at some point I’ll be talking about tabletop games or books I’m trying to read or a cool bird I saw. But that’s for Future Sami to figure out.
-Sami Adalwulf
Strike The Horizon 