2012

Things I Have Accomplished in 19 Years

(in no particular order)

• Team captain of my high school state champion water polo team
• Got a drivers license
• Graduated high school
• Survived a year on a collegiate water polo team
• Finished a year of college, and survived living on my own
• Became certified as an EMT 
• Received and successfully held 4 different jobs
• Became certified as a lifeguard
• Practiced as an EMT 
• Learned the entire language of spanish, and then forgot it 
• Traveled to 7 different countries
• And most recently, learned to drive a stick-shift 

The Grass is Greener

Lately I've been thinking about people.
And I realized that I really don't care if people swear or drink or have sex or get tattoos or smoke or hate religion or get back-fat piercings.
All I really care about, is that they are a good person.
I know this kind of seems like common sense, but regrettably, I've lived most of my life with a very different mind set.
And I'd like to blame that on the fact that I grew up in Happy Valley Utah, or that I never knew anything different, but the truth is, I just never made an effort to believe otherwise.

But now, I really feel that as long as you are a good person, as long as you are kind and honest and understanding, as long as you stand up for what is right, or stand up for people that need your help, and as long as you can always put yourself in someone else's shoes, thats all that really matters to me.

Take Me Away

I need to go on an adventure.

Doing the same things day in and day out, living in this cookie cutter house and living this monotonous lifestyle is not where I belong.

I need to sleep under the stars, I need to swim in the ocean, drive on dirt roads, I need to wake up in the morning, and not know where I'll be sleeping that night.

I need to sit by a campfire, I need to go places where no one can find me, I need to explore things, and I need to get back my passion for life, that got lost somewhere in the midst of endless routines, and in even more endless housing payments.

I belong somewhere else, wherever it may be. But I don't belong here.