Friday, January 25, 2013

I am going to do more

I have watched earth be formed anew at Mauna Loa.

I have slept under the cold stars at 12,000 ft in the Rocky Mountains.

I have played on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico.

I have fished the waters of the Bosphorus.

I have ridden camels through the sea of sand dunes in the empty quarter of the Arabian Desert.

I have snorkeled the floor of the Red Sea.

I have thrown snowballs off of the edge of the Grand Canyon.

I have surfed the blue waves of the Pacific Ocean.

I have hunted the game of the American Prairies.

I have walked on the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.

I have floated in the Dead Sea.

... and I am going to do more.

Wednesday, January 02, 2013

Fine, Lets See How This Works

I'm going to change quelque chose in a good, cliche, New Years Resolutiony way. My strategy revolves around not being so hard on people(cliche bomb). I am realizing that I am truly cruel and unsympathetic sometimes. But, I'm not going to pretend I am...oh no...instead, I am going to work on just keeping my mouth shut and working on tangents or something positive for the person.


Before, I've gotten in the habit of criticizing them and knocking them down a peg. However, behind that, my motive was not for myself to feel superior, but for the person to get a reality check. I have an addiction to tactless honesty. I want to correct them. I know that I am right. Furthermore, I don't like the idea of people not thinking or seeing the world in the that way I do. It is simple as that...and I for some reason have developed a complex to try and push or convince those I meet to see it my way. It's wrong for so many reasons. Anyway, 2 days down and I've already been stopping myself with success. 

I know that I never used to do this, therefore I either learned it or gained this habit and it changed me. I know that I can make it go away. I've proven again and again to myself how malleable I am.

I am losing my mind.