I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to figure out what topic to start off with in this blog. (Of course that’s not all I’ve been doing – I got a little busy with the whole school–work-sleep-life balance too!) You see, I’m a real believer in firsts: first job sets precedent for your work ethic; first 10% sets precedent for your finances; first blog should set precedent, or at least set the stage, for the ones to come. So I’ve mulled over this idea or that revelation, many of them seeming less than relevant to the place that I’m in right now, and none of them seeming quite so revolutionary as they were at the time when I scribbled them down in my journal or the side of my Bible. And then today I had a run-in with the whole point of having non-negotiables in my life in the first place: once you’ve set them in place, they aren’t intended to be revolutionary anymore – they’re reviving. Think of places that are constantly wrought with wars. Governments or generals are...