Hey bloggers!
I originally saved up $2500.00 to get out of Conway and move to Boston, MA where I would live with my aunt until I found a job and then move into my own apt with my best friend.....
When the time finally came, my plans backfired and I found myself stuck in Conway, jobless. Hopelessly looking for a job anywhere, I came across crime scene clean up! What an interesting job right? I applied everywhere for the position and when nothing came back, no e-mails, no phone calls, NOTHING, I found myself really bored with life wondering, "Why do people follow what everyone else is doing?". Which bring me to the reason I started this blog.
Today is January 21, 2010. It's a chilly thursday afternoon and everything is covered with fresh powder from days of snow. I woke up feeling bummed out. I was sick of waking up and going to work to get yelled at by my boss non stop. And for what? Money? How many of you are stuck in the same position? Yea, a lot of you. Where all stuck on the same boat.
We'll, I finally got off of that boat before it set sail again. The only problem is that it's the middle of winter, during off season. The odds of me finiding a decent job is slim to nothing! All day I did nothing but bum around the house everyday. I figured i'd take a shower, get ready and go on a mini road trip to Vermont. While I was getting ready to go I was thinking of all the places I could go today that I haven't already been before. All the places I haven't been take more than 5-6 hours to get to.
Then it hit me.....
Why the hell do I care how long it takes me. I have no job, no responsibilities, a car that may or may not make it on a long journey and $2500.00 in my bank account. Doesn't sound like much, I know, but why not just get up and go?
Too many people in this day and age are too worried about making it to the top and making sure they get good grades so they can go to a good college. Then after college they hope to score a good job (which for the most part most people don't get unless they work long hours, nights and weekends and some holidays) and a spouse they hope to live happily ever after with (which in todays days, the odds of you living happily ever after is pretty slim as well). Think of all the married couples you know right now and how many of them are both truely happy? I know more married couples who are married because:
a. There's kids involved and they don't want to split them up
b. There's a house involved and they don't want to have to split everything up
c. One spouse wants to get the hell out of the relationship, but the other one wants to make things work
d. They're too comfortable to make a change so they just "deal with each other"
Sounds like a great happily ever after!.......or not
I figure, "Why not do the complete opposite of what everyone is doing??" How many of you always had the dream of being a blues traveler, a deep sea diver, an animal tracker in the deep depths of the jungle or anything else wild and crazy out there in life, but let your dreams be pushed into the back of the closet because your being pressured into "what everyone else is doing!" My mom always says, "Who are you trying to make happy here? Everyone else aren't you? It's YOUR life, all you have to do is make YOU happy." It's true. Why not just go out and live your dreams? For me, I always wanted to travel around to the places around the world people never dared to go and just explore! Take photos of everything, paint whatever my mind saw, write down every experience I had and share it with the world! I want to meet people no one wants to talk to or cares about, the people who have something to say but don't know how to say it or are too afraid to speak their mind.
A man once told me once that the human telos is happiness. What is telos you ask? It's a purpose. So, for example a paperclips telos is to hld paper together. A pencil erasers telos is to erase pencil mistakes. Humans telos is happiness. How many of you are truely happy trying to "live the life?". I know I'm not.
So, to wrap this up, I plan to hop in my car on monday, January 25, 2010 and drive. Drive anywhere my car takes me with nothing but a few shirts and pants, underwear, my music, phone, and books. I plan to stop at a library atleast in every state I visit to blog where I am, what I'm doing, who I've met and how I'm able to stretch 2500$ between gas and food.
Will I really be able to survive through my journey on just the few things I can fit in my car? Who knows. What I do know though is that it sure is going to beat staying at home living the norm, thinking of what the next step in life will be towards "living the life".......The real "living the life" is going out and having fun! Doing whatever it is YOU want to do because when your time is up and your rethinking all your memories, you won't be thinking of the countless hours you spent at work or the long nights studying for that test that will determine whether or not you make it to med school. You'll be thinking of the times you had camping, with next to nothing on your back, hanging out with your friends, caring about nothing but the now. You'll be thinking of the day you took a day trip with your girl friend and got a flat in the middle of nowhere and had to walk and hitchhike for miles and the only person who picked you up was a farmer who was on his way to a barn party and invited you guys to along. You partied so hard and woke up in the hay stacks, next to the family pig, thinking of how much fun you had and how much fun it was taking the week off from work and getting stuck in this wreck instead of not getting the flat and ending up in the hotel you booked for you and your girlfriend. Those are the days you'll be thinking of.
So here goes the 4 day countdown to the best days of my life!
