Profound Ruminations of a Chuckling Adventurer

Out of the twisted web of shadows, the only thing that emerges is… disapproval.

I think my problem, as weird as it may sound, is that I try to be friends with everyone.

Puppet.

Hold up, wait a minute, ya know what’s goin’ on when Krutch is in it;

Move over, beg your pardon, Krutch gonna get this party started.

SO many things hang in the balance right now. The suspense is killing me.

Movies (already released) that I want to watch.

I may update this as I think of more. Watch these with me! In no particular order:

-The Vow

-Thor

-The Notebook

-Like Crazy

-The Adventures of Tintin

-The Dark Knight

-The Empire Strikes Back

-Return of the Jedi

-War Horse

-The Eagle

-It Might Get Loud

Break the spell cast on me that I fell through,

Smile for me, it’s your smile that I run to.

The hardest thing to admit, that I love you;

Sweet Amy, don’t let fear take me from you.

Fork.

Once upon a time, there was a fork in the road with two signs pointing down each of the roads.  One sign read “CAPITALISM”.  The other read “SOCIALISM”.

Lo and behold, Mao Zedong drives up.  After reading both signs, he drives down the path marked “SOCIALISM”.

Before too long, Bill Clinton drives up to the fork. After reading the signs and pondering for a short time,  he rives down the road marked “CAPITALISM”.

A short while later, Deng Xiaoping arrives.  He contemplates one sign, then the other, then the first again.  He thinks hard for several minutes, then turns his car off, gets out, and walks up to the sign reading “SOCIALISM”.  Uprooting it, he carries it over to the sign marked “CAPITALISM”, and covers it with the new sign.  Then he walks back to his car, starts the engine, and drives down that road. 

I guess this shows how old I am.

I have this one problem.  Ok, I have a lot of problems, but there’s one that’s been on my mind recently.  It’s that I tend to look forward to the future with such anticipation that I fail to live fully in the present.  Now, from what I’ve heard, the opposite is more common: people tend to live so much in the past that they fail to live fully in the present.  Maybe I’m just weird.  Shrug. 

Last summer when I was in Honduras with CTI, I wasn’t making the most of my experience because I’d often be thinking about what was going to happen when I got back to Willmar, when I got back home, and when I got back to SLO.  And now, I find myself wishing that summer would hurry up and arrive so that I can go home and hang out with my friends, live it big in the City, and then going to Willmar again for training and then overseas for the tour.  And then of course, post-CTI summer transitioning into Junior year seems very exciting.  

But while looking forward to the future is good, I know that it can also be very dangerous because it can cause you to miss out on so much that’s going on around you in the here and now.  Daydreaming about what will happen months ahead can cause distraction, and probably even affect the people around you. 

Remember that you are living this life for a purpose.  Don’t miss it!!! That’s my prayer for myself as well.