I want to do Everything

I want to be everyone and do everything. I want to be a race car driver, a motorcyclist, a mountain climber, a martial arts master, a scuba diver and a sailor. I want to be a property owner, archer, world traveler, linguist, business man and a craftsman. I want to be a fighter, an artist, a writer, a humanitarian and a professional. The list could go on endlessly but you get the point, I really just want to do things.

Is it possible to do all of these things? My answer is yes. I don’t think it’s possible to do all these at the same time or professionally but that’s not the point. When I say I want to be a race car driver I don’t mean I want to join NASCAR, simply bringing my car out to the track or an occasion auto cross would suffice. Drawing on occasion, maybe taking a few art classes and trying to incorporate the creation of art into my life would be enough to call myself an artist.

I already am, or I’m at least on the path to a few of the things I just mentioned. My dad used to own a catamaran and was a member of a sailing club. He used to race for fun and win consistently. I grew up being around a sail boat. He eventually traded in the catamaran for a fishing boat and then eventually got rid of that boat, now he has a canoe. As time went on his interests changed and old hobbies made way for new ones. So even if he only sailed for 10 years, and he hasn’t sailed in a long time, he is still a sailor.

Going through a phase of doing something and eventually dropping it is not necessarily a bad thing. Over time our priorities change. It’s important to recognize these changes and to not be afraid of branching out to pursue them. Really I guess my point is that I want to experience as much as I can and get the most out of my life. Keeping all these goals in mind and staying active will help me achieve them. I look forward to crossing things off my list and adding new ones.

Blue Screen of DEATH!

Ahhhhhh! I haven’t blogged in too long! Two and a half weeks ago I moved out of my old place and into a house with some friends and started school at NAIT again. In the process of this move, one of my friends accidentally unplugged my computer while it was running and it immediately exploded. Not literally of course, but the motherboard, power supply and processor were destroyed, virtually everything important. My computer was running on an old socket system so I couldn’t replace the parts without making the rest of my junk useless so I decided to just build another one from scratch.

So in my first week of school, with a new resolution to try and live thrifty, I ended up dropping $800 on a new computer. Aw well, I’d have had to do it sometime or another and I’ve been looking for an excuse to upgrade, I just couldn’t justify it while the old one still worked. Losing my computer also resulted in me losing all my journal entries, which I shouldn’t have had stored on my main hard drive (Duh), including a good one I had almost finished. Due to a series of software issues and other frustrating, tedious computer issues, I didn’t get my computer set up until last weekend. So I haven’t been blogging because I was waiting until I had things set up the way I wanted. It took me much longer than I anticipated.

Things are just spiffy now though! So I’m back and ready to bang out a whack of glorious journal entries to make up for the drought. I thought I’d throw out this little, “Allo, sorry bout the hitch, right, now where were we?” before I undertake the frustrating task of trying to re-write the entry I lost. I might end up copy/pasting my blog entries back into word, I was feeling awfully swell about having 50 pages in the journal and now it seems rather lonely with just this.