Mentalechoes

The Wild Turkey shots are still running strong after dinner, and I feel better than I’ve felt in a couple of weeks. Dave came around for a visit tonight, probably the last time I’ll see him for a few months as he is taking off for Canada next wednesday to spend 3 months snowboarding over the winter.

Strangely enough, having Dave come around and tell me about his plans to go away and go snowboarding, was exactly the kind of lift that I have needed. Dave is the kind of guy that just goes and does the stuff he wants, rather than getting bogged down in a mundane life. Totally opposite to me really. But I didn’t really see it before. I spend my whole day bogged down in mundane details of a corporate life that I take far too seriously. Being so close to problems that you forget there is more to life than just those things that cause you stress.

Sitting here writing this blog, it starts to become clear, that which I have been looking for the last couple of weeks (perhaps months). Our minds, if left to run in the routine of a mundane life, becomes boxed in, unable to think beyond the boundaries of daily grind. When this happens, we start to lose our passion for life, and our imagination and creativity. We stop dreaming dreams and we stop believing that we can acheive them. Not straight away, but slowly over time. A slow fading away to obscurity.

Dreams are what gives us our motivation to move through the days, but it is the act of chasing our dreams that gives us excitement in our lives. Real excitement! Not the kind of excitement you have watching a horror movie.

Life is not a spectator sport! Any of us can live an exciting life, all it takes is to step out of the box we live in, and follow the trail of stars in our eyes!

Goddamn… there are so many stars when you take the blindfolds off!

Padwanna.