I like videos. So today I started my Video Blog, or Vlog on youtube. :D Here is the link to see my first video blog post!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwhEGPgURoA
It's not the greatest but hopefully as I go on I will get more comfortable in front of the Camera or video recorder thing and the quality of the content and everything will be better and more interesting. I had a lot of trouble getting up the strength to start up the Vlog. It's scary putting yourself out their like that.
In order to improve my comfortability in front of the video camera I have decided that I am going to post small videos on all of my Facebook friends walls. Even the ones who I never talk to. All of them. This will not only give me exposure to the video camera thingy but will also allow me to grow my connection skills with others. Also it just gives me a nice feeling inside. Wish me luck!!! :D Follow my Vlog and this Blog because I am a relatively decent and interesting guy... I think. Thanks be to you!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Get off my Chest.
I talk a lot about how awesome my trip is going to be and living in a car and everything. Truth is, it scares me a crap ton as well. I mean tons of stuff could go wrong. Like the fact that I don't have much money and don't have enough to put a down payment on a car. Or the fact that people don't think its a good idea or I can't do it or its too dangerous or something like that. I admit, it's a risk, but I think it's a good risk.
It's the kind of risk that separates the great from the ordinary, people that change the world from the people that just live in the world, the people that really live and love life from the people that are limited by their fear of the future, or of failure. Yes it's scary and unconventional but as George Bernard Shaw said “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” I agree with this statement 110 percent. I'll make mistakes, I will mess up, I won't always be safe, but isn't that the point? That your not going to be safe. Life is about adventure. Life is about the moments that take your breath away, life is about the risks you take because you care, and you love. Life is about going out there and achieving your dreams no matter what the cost. I don't care if you don't think I can achieve my dreams. I don't care if you don't believe in me. I believe in myself and nothing that anyone says is going to change that. I believe that their is a higher purpose in this trip other than just because I want to. There are personal reasons I want to go on this trip. It's not just for my personal gain (which I believe I will gain a lot from this trip) but it's for the people that I will meet, the adventures in my future, and changing the world. I think God is calling me to something big and this trip is the start I believe. I believe in a better world. I believe that anything can happen. Do you?
It's the kind of risk that separates the great from the ordinary, people that change the world from the people that just live in the world, the people that really live and love life from the people that are limited by their fear of the future, or of failure. Yes it's scary and unconventional but as George Bernard Shaw said “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” I agree with this statement 110 percent. I'll make mistakes, I will mess up, I won't always be safe, but isn't that the point? That your not going to be safe. Life is about adventure. Life is about the moments that take your breath away, life is about the risks you take because you care, and you love. Life is about going out there and achieving your dreams no matter what the cost. I don't care if you don't think I can achieve my dreams. I don't care if you don't believe in me. I believe in myself and nothing that anyone says is going to change that. I believe that their is a higher purpose in this trip other than just because I want to. There are personal reasons I want to go on this trip. It's not just for my personal gain (which I believe I will gain a lot from this trip) but it's for the people that I will meet, the adventures in my future, and changing the world. I think God is calling me to something big and this trip is the start I believe. I believe in a better world. I believe that anything can happen. Do you?
Friday, June 24, 2011
The need to write.
Rainer Maria Rilke once said "Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."
I have graduated from high school 8 days ago so naturally all I have been doing is sitting around and watching tv shows on Netflix. While doing this I have thought about writing and how much I enjoy it. I love writing. I really do. It helps clear your mind when it is full of crap and clutter. It's like organizing a really messy house, the house being where the mind lives... in the brain.. if that makes any sense. Even though I love to write and have taken many courses in school that have been focused on writing, I haven't dug deep down and found the "reason that commands (me) to write...that I would die if I were forbidden to write". I have felt better after writing and more organized but I have not taken the time to sit down and write whats on my mind for a while. I like to blame school for taking up all of my time with pointless exercises and assignments, but it's not entirely schools fault. I haven't taken the time to sit down and write. I hope that with this confession I will be able to take more time to sit down and write about my thoughts and engage with my audience, and hopefully become more organized with my beliefs. Here is to a fresh start.
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke
I have graduated from high school 8 days ago so naturally all I have been doing is sitting around and watching tv shows on Netflix. While doing this I have thought about writing and how much I enjoy it. I love writing. I really do. It helps clear your mind when it is full of crap and clutter. It's like organizing a really messy house, the house being where the mind lives... in the brain.. if that makes any sense. Even though I love to write and have taken many courses in school that have been focused on writing, I haven't dug deep down and found the "reason that commands (me) to write...that I would die if I were forbidden to write". I have felt better after writing and more organized but I have not taken the time to sit down and write whats on my mind for a while. I like to blame school for taking up all of my time with pointless exercises and assignments, but it's not entirely schools fault. I haven't taken the time to sit down and write. I hope that with this confession I will be able to take more time to sit down and write about my thoughts and engage with my audience, and hopefully become more organized with my beliefs. Here is to a fresh start.
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke
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