THE RUMOR IS TRUE.
WE ARE BACK.
I am glad you care.
It is so weird to think that I started this blog when I was 16. Now I'm 19, I don't feel older, I feel younger and wiser. My life has done a complete 360 while not changing at the same time. It is an unusual sensation. I'm glad to have the blog start up again because I think that when people are bored or can't sleep, they need something random to read to make them think. And Adam and I are ready to make you think, make you not think, whatever it takes for you to look at this blog. Ya see, some blogs I really don't want to read because they are people complaining about things and they think that they are the only people who go through what they go through. The human race is living together, weird I know. We're never really alone in what we're going through. Thats where blogs become cool, because when you write something from the heart, people can relate. Its nice to read that you aren't the only one. Its nice to read something so different from your life, to escape the daily grind.
Thats why this blog is beautiful, because Adam and I have very different lifestlyes. Maybe you can relate to one, maybe you can't relate at all, that's okay because you are STILL READING THIS.
A quick schpeal about me so you can understand why I write what I write:
Why'll most everyone around me in highschool was going one way, and the adults in my life had their eyebrows raised, I decided the "risky" choice to not go to college right away. They say its hard to go back to school if you don't go right after highschool. I say, bullshit. If you want to do something, do it. As I said, a lot of skeptic teachers looked at me at school and other adults put in their two cents about my future but I ignored them and listened to (believe it or not) my parents. My parents said follow your heart. So I did. Crazy shit, listening to my parents.
So in August I packed my world in my volkswagon beetle and moved out to the West Coast in Southern California to be apart of the Young Americans. The Young Americans is a performing arts group that teaches singing and dancing workshops to kids at highschools all over the world. To be able to tour and teach these workshops, I first spend a year in California training. I take classes at their non-accredited college every week night and rehearse every weekend for any upcoming shows. I've learned textbook lessons and harsh life lessons over the past 6 months, met incredible people from all over the world, but most importantly I've looked deep into myself to discover just what it takes not to survive in this life, but to love, excel, and live this life. I think I'll save specific situations for later blogs, I just wanted to give you the brief overview of where I am in my life right now. A bit hippie and existential feelings.
I don't really want to make this blog like my journal or something, I don't want to write all about me. However, these things that I go through I think need to be shared because they are situations that not everyone has the oppurtunity to experience. So, I want to share my hectic, stressful, beautiful lifestyle with anyone who wants to read, hence the rebirth of "The Other Side of the Coin...."
Living pay check to paycheck
flying by the seat of my pants
yet keeping my feet firmly on the ground as I spread my wings and soar
I'm inspired by my california life
driving with the windows rolled down and music turned up
I'm in awe of my friends, their laughter is my medicine I learn from them and them from me and we find we're wiser than we thought.
Sometimes I get tired but I keep going...with the helping hands of those who have faith in me.
No IDEA where I'll be next year or month but I'm always going somewhere
Not sure what I'm doing with my life, just know I'm living it,
loving it,
learning, teaching, hoping, praying, believing that I'm on my way....
Friday, February 22, 2008
Let's do this...
Hey!
Is there anyone still out there in this part of the intertubes? No? Okay, I guess I'll just keep talking to hear myself talk.
So, I came back to this blog the other day and started reading all of those things I wrote junior and senior year. It's crazy reading it. That guy isn't hardly even me any more. He had some good ideas. He had some passion. He had some creativity.
What happened to that guy? Where is he now? Why am I shouting loudly into a lonely empty space on the intertubes?
I will answer these questions.
That guy is now a computer drone that does math and physics with an efficiency and correctness that is somewhat unsettling to the feeble dying human elements of this once completely human cyborg. He sometimes sits in class and sometimes sits at his desk in the dorms that are within walking distance of class. He dose some fun things now and again. He learns but hardly ever thinks anymore. Not like before. Before, he thought all the time and hardly ever learned.
If he looks, if he looks long and hard he can hear the breathing of the dormant person that he once was. He knows that sleeping something stills has all the passion. Days upon months of lack of time and sleep have caused these things to fall dormant. Which leads me to why I'm yelling into an abandoned space of internet.
It's time to reawaken this person. Return to thinking. Perhaps not a return to not learning. However, if learning is inversely proportional to thinking then it is a necessary trade off.
Most of the really cool things that guy said were the product of repetitive mundanitity(if it's not a word I'm adding it right now). That still exists.
So here I am, awake and ready. I'm yelling.
Next question.
To whom am I yelling?
I'm yelling, first, to Beth. And second to our two loyal readers out there. Come back and lets get the fun started again.
Here's why this time is going to be so much more awesomer then last time.(presented in a numbered list)
1) Beth has been living in California doing all kinds of cool things with her life that must have brought some sort of new and interesting though that I would personally love to hear.
2) I'm in the second semester of a 10 semester downward spiral into insanity that is also known as architectural engineering college, and this can only lead to further entertainment for you.
3) We're both older, not in highschool, and getting closer and closer to being in the 'real world' as they say. If you ask me I'm pretty much there now.
4) If you've read this far on the bulleted list then welcome aboard you are indeed one of our two valued fans and I'm glad to have you back.
5) I'm always looking for reasons to avoid the things that I probably should be doing. For example, right now I should be sleeping. Well, actually I shouldn't even be doing that. I should be working on writing a computer program for one of my classes. But, like I said I'm looking forward to thinking more often than learning and what better excuse for doing so then for you entertainment.
I'm sure Beth has something to say about our rebirth so listen up and pay attention.
O and one more thing. I'd like to take this opportunity to redefine this blog. 'The other side of the coin' was a reference to a Peter Jennings quote. Jennings said "When I see a coin, instinctively, I want to look at the other side." He was talking about an undying desire to always seek to learn more, to know more. Actually, he was talking about knowing everything, everything about any given story that he would cover. While we never sought to know everything we always sought to bring up some other thought, even if we did attempt to accomplish that by somewhat comical means.
Now, I return to a thought that I have often had. This country, and ultimately the entire world(or most of it, I cannot speak on the entire world because I know so little about it) is a competition driven society. We scratch and claw ahead of the next guy hoping to get that better grade to get that better job to get that better life, or so we think. For many people that system works but it seems to me that for every winner there are at least two losers. Also, rarely is it the hard worker that wins anymore. For some odd reason the amount of work a person puts towards 'bettering their life,' so to speak is not often related to how much better their life gets. And when I say 'bettering their life' I mean, moving up the 'social ladder' and pushing the other guy down. That is not acceptable in my book. Now, not too many people are reading my book and we're never going to stop this one-upper society.
We can, however, present the other side of the coin, in direct word or in spirit, of this social situation. Ask these questions: "Can I settle with happiness in my life or must I strive towards world impact? "While I may attempt to set goals and do things with my life, can I be happy at every stage along the way as opposed to only being happy once my goals are reached? "Can I view the cookie cutter life path that society has forced upon me as something to be treaded lightly instead of barreled down at full speed in the single hope that I'll finish before the next guy? If you ask me, the answers are all yes. The other side of the coin: Slow down. Enjoy each step of the way. All you have is time. You can reach your goals with out pushing down or beating out the other guy. I promise.
I also promise never to be that serious again.
that's all I really wanted to say
Adam
Is there anyone still out there in this part of the intertubes? No? Okay, I guess I'll just keep talking to hear myself talk.
So, I came back to this blog the other day and started reading all of those things I wrote junior and senior year. It's crazy reading it. That guy isn't hardly even me any more. He had some good ideas. He had some passion. He had some creativity.
What happened to that guy? Where is he now? Why am I shouting loudly into a lonely empty space on the intertubes?
I will answer these questions.
That guy is now a computer drone that does math and physics with an efficiency and correctness that is somewhat unsettling to the feeble dying human elements of this once completely human cyborg. He sometimes sits in class and sometimes sits at his desk in the dorms that are within walking distance of class. He dose some fun things now and again. He learns but hardly ever thinks anymore. Not like before. Before, he thought all the time and hardly ever learned.
If he looks, if he looks long and hard he can hear the breathing of the dormant person that he once was. He knows that sleeping something stills has all the passion. Days upon months of lack of time and sleep have caused these things to fall dormant. Which leads me to why I'm yelling into an abandoned space of internet.
It's time to reawaken this person. Return to thinking. Perhaps not a return to not learning. However, if learning is inversely proportional to thinking then it is a necessary trade off.
Most of the really cool things that guy said were the product of repetitive mundanitity(if it's not a word I'm adding it right now). That still exists.
So here I am, awake and ready. I'm yelling.
Next question.
To whom am I yelling?
I'm yelling, first, to Beth. And second to our two loyal readers out there. Come back and lets get the fun started again.
Here's why this time is going to be so much more awesomer then last time.(presented in a numbered list)
1) Beth has been living in California doing all kinds of cool things with her life that must have brought some sort of new and interesting though that I would personally love to hear.
2) I'm in the second semester of a 10 semester downward spiral into insanity that is also known as architectural engineering college, and this can only lead to further entertainment for you.
3) We're both older, not in highschool, and getting closer and closer to being in the 'real world' as they say. If you ask me I'm pretty much there now.
4) If you've read this far on the bulleted list then welcome aboard you are indeed one of our two valued fans and I'm glad to have you back.
5) I'm always looking for reasons to avoid the things that I probably should be doing. For example, right now I should be sleeping. Well, actually I shouldn't even be doing that. I should be working on writing a computer program for one of my classes. But, like I said I'm looking forward to thinking more often than learning and what better excuse for doing so then for you entertainment.
I'm sure Beth has something to say about our rebirth so listen up and pay attention.
O and one more thing. I'd like to take this opportunity to redefine this blog. 'The other side of the coin' was a reference to a Peter Jennings quote. Jennings said "When I see a coin, instinctively, I want to look at the other side." He was talking about an undying desire to always seek to learn more, to know more. Actually, he was talking about knowing everything, everything about any given story that he would cover. While we never sought to know everything we always sought to bring up some other thought, even if we did attempt to accomplish that by somewhat comical means.
Now, I return to a thought that I have often had. This country, and ultimately the entire world(or most of it, I cannot speak on the entire world because I know so little about it) is a competition driven society. We scratch and claw ahead of the next guy hoping to get that better grade to get that better job to get that better life, or so we think. For many people that system works but it seems to me that for every winner there are at least two losers. Also, rarely is it the hard worker that wins anymore. For some odd reason the amount of work a person puts towards 'bettering their life,' so to speak is not often related to how much better their life gets. And when I say 'bettering their life' I mean, moving up the 'social ladder' and pushing the other guy down. That is not acceptable in my book. Now, not too many people are reading my book and we're never going to stop this one-upper society.
We can, however, present the other side of the coin, in direct word or in spirit, of this social situation. Ask these questions: "Can I settle with happiness in my life or must I strive towards world impact? "While I may attempt to set goals and do things with my life, can I be happy at every stage along the way as opposed to only being happy once my goals are reached? "Can I view the cookie cutter life path that society has forced upon me as something to be treaded lightly instead of barreled down at full speed in the single hope that I'll finish before the next guy? If you ask me, the answers are all yes. The other side of the coin: Slow down. Enjoy each step of the way. All you have is time. You can reach your goals with out pushing down or beating out the other guy. I promise.
I also promise never to be that serious again.
that's all I really wanted to say
Adam
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