Here's to Now

Before our instincts fall out and leave us with nothing more than what we already know, we're going to set out and put them to the test. With the last week of real world work upon us, the reality of change sets in. While folding the final hand and letting the world deal the next round it's important to take in the final bits of security that a steady job gives and prepare for the freedom of uncertainty!

I can't picture what it will be like to wake up everyday and have nothing binding us to one plan and have no schedule to follow- besides the ones forged in the fires of the immediate. The laws of direction will go haywire: left goes right, up goes down, and a straight line could make us run in circles. All the time in the world, no matter the time zone, has made its anonymity known to us, while in the same instance being virtually non existent because we choose whether or not to recognize its beckoning.

With that being said, I'm definitely not the kind of person who can sit around and relax letting the time get away for too long. I have to be doing something- constantly feeding some part of my hungry being that needs to be nourished. That is what makes these circumstances so opportune. With the pressures of time erased, endless possibilities are written.

So my advice to myself and others like me reading this, is to do the age old zen buddest pursuit of happiness thing and live in the now, making any scenario possible at that moment. There isn't really any other way to travel. I know there are a million inspirational quotes and life guiding mantras that revolve around the same principle. We all hear them and try our hardest to practice truthfully, but more often then not get swept away in the flood that is future and past. I believe the adventures that lie ahead will test, and help strengthen my practice because there is an art to getting lost in life's distractions. A way to which you can use them to burn away the feeling that your just clawing your way through. Hopefully I can find that method, and give other travelers and adventure junkies some insight.

So crack a beer or raise whatever drink you're holding, if you have none grab one. Here's to now!!

Stay lost my friends.
Mike