Life Story

11 Kinda bored and feel like writing about my life. I know I should be sleeping.. I will tomorrow. Let's start at day 1. December 13, 1990. Nothing special for a good year. February 1991 was the year that I got the burn. In case you're wondering, which you are, I was not struck by lightning, in a crazy motorcycle accident or abducted by aliens (all stories i have given out in the past. most likely if you were annoying me lol). there was a table on wheels that had a coffee pot on top of it. The coffee pot was being cleaned. boom fall splash burn. hospital for 3 months. dont ask if it hurt.. no crap it did lol. well after that i don't really know. I can remember a few things from when i was like 1 and 2 but nothing important. I started going to the blue church when I was four. This is where I met one of my best friends matt! I went to kindergarden at BCS where I met many of my most trustworthy friends. As my one friend Luke said the other day, "Whenever your new friends let you down, your bcs friends are always right there with yea!" somethin like that. BCS was great for the most part. So at 5 I said the sinner's prayer asking Jesus into my heart. I may have been saved. I don't completely remember. I think that I was a child of God's. Well anyway. I kinda coasted through elementary and middle school years getting into programs and sports even though I really didnt want to. I can't really say I did anything profound during that time except build friendships. By the time highschool came around I was thoroughly sick of Christian schooling. I was in religion overload (I think I'm gonna write another blog directly after this one about my stance on christianity). I went to Easton highschool freshman year. wow. that was a nice reality check. honestly I hated almost every minute i speant in that place. Maybe it was because I was simply intimidated because I was a freshman or because the 3000 students. I'm not sure but I just fealt very out of place. I made some good friends there and got out. My sophomore year I went to LVCHS. Accademically ok. but i'm having a good time here. lovin it. btw, I wrote this in a few minutes. very messy. srry.

Old Goals

10 When I set goals for myself, they usually end up being completely new. Before I begin making new goals, I am going to first completing all of my unfinished ones in the past. I'll keep yea posted.

Retreat

9 Last night, a few guys from my church joined up with the St. David's youth group for a retreat. Though I wish we could have stayed for the entire retreat, I'm realy glad we actually got to go this year.

Today

8 Today we took midterms at school which drained a lot out of me. After that, I did actually did some studying for tomorrow's midterms. I'm dead. Couldn't write a thoughtful blog today.

Minds

7 While we were in our youth, the majority of the impressions of our world were made. By performing countless experiments and tests, we were able to learn the basics of this new world. Another way we learned was by the teachings of adults. As long as something wasn't completely absurd or fictional, we automatically accepted these teachings as fact. Unfortunately, many of these teachings were actually opinions, and as we all know, opinions are not fact. When we adamantly defend these opinions as if they are, we become fools. We need not have pride in our opinions, just loving conviction.

Detail

6 A bit of detail on a few of the below topics.

Money
I'm sure that I have shown some of you my plan pertaining to the stock market. After thinking about it a while, I realized that it will take me a few years experience to get there. I plan on making a bit of money off of stocks, but this will have to take place a bit down the road. Now I'm just gonna do it the old fashioned way.

Health
I could write a book about this one. Keeping it short and sweet, I want to do more cardio, eat a wider variety of nutritional foods, and do some more resistance training such as weightlifting.

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I learned so much more about stocks, business, economics since this post. Before I saw stocks as a way for me to get money. Now I see an entire economic system that I can contribute to. In return I will be paid my due share. Economics is awesome! As far as health goes, I haven't followed my goals. I merely maintained my habit of eating moderately healthily.

Flaws

5 Here's a short list of a few of my flaws, shortcomings and areas that need improvement: vocabulary. marksmanship. body fat. strength. money. time spent with friends. health. martial arts! being consistent. defining who I am.

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Since the writing of this post, I have definitely increased my vocabulary, strength, money, time and spent with friends. Also, I was given an unforseen blessing- Kelly!

Body fat, marksmanship, and martial arts have not been touched.

Living Consciously

4 While resolving and coming to conclusions about life, I came across a website that talks about personal development. Its author says that the first step to personal development is living consciously. Rather than trying to forget or ignore the problems and parts of your life that are simply unhealthy, you must acknowledge that they do exist. This next week I plan to figure out the problems and parts of my life that are unhealthy.

Inspiration from Steve Pavlina

The Cycles of My Life

3 While evaluating my life these past few days, I realized that a certain cycle has been occurring. For a month or so I feel as if I am on top of the world and nothing can stop me. As this begins to die down, I begin to relax- way too much. This also lasts for about a month. Once the relaxed mode begins to leave, I then realize that I'm wasting my time. It is during this time that I come up with all of these great opinions and theoretical musings.

Depression

2 Though I may be happy most of the time, I get small little modes of depression. They never last too long (gone within hours) but they eat away at me. To tell you the truth, I feel that most people probably are the same way. These past few months I was depressed and really couldn't care much about my life. Though most think that depression is always a horrible thing, I would beg to differ. Sometimes it can act as a reality check. Recently it slapped me in the face and got me moving. I re-evaluated my life and came to the conclusion that my life is indeed worth living. Simply put, there is going to be a lot of change going on. In order for this to work, it must occur slowly. A quick fix never holds.

Intro

1 This is a blog about my thoughts, my opinions, and pretty much anything I feel about writing.