SO, I think that the first step to making these changes is to start challenging myself more. I need to start making more of a conscious effort to shake myself out of my boredom. Eleanor Roosevelt once said
"Do one thing everyday that scares you."
I want to get that rush of learning something new. I want to feel that high from having a new experience. And does that mean that I have to run with the bulls or go skydiving necessarily, no. It means to just do something out of your ordinary pattern. Someone once said that the definition of insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I don't want to keep living like an insane person. I want to go out and do. Another quote that I like to recall (I am having a very quote-heavy post today. Oh well....) is one by Neale Donald Walsch that reads
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
So, in 2014 I am going to try to do something new and different, at least one thing a month. I have been reading all of these new articles and blog posts about things to change, and one of them was to start looking at those Groupons and Living Social deals, and actually take advantage of them. So, I am going to look to experience something new each month, and I can chronicle them in here. And, if there is something that I really enjoy that I haven't done in a while, I can revisit those too. From rollerblading on the National Mall to hiking part of the Appalachian Mountains, to inner-tubing down a river in West Virginia, going to HoliFestival, or just going for a bike ride through my neighborhood. Whatever the experience is, I want to start adding more of it to my life. I mean, fuck, I will never be as young as I am right now ever again. How trippy of a thought is that?? Pretty trippy for a Friday Night on half a bottle of Norton Red, but I digress.... Either way, I am ready to get started. Let's do this.
This video is from an Ad campaign for students to travel to Australia. There was one called MOVE (which has been copied SO MANY times since it came out, one called EAT which I couldn't even watch right now because I am so starving, and this one. I just love the idea of traveling the world and taking on a new challenge everywhere you go.
(photo above from the Holi Festival of Colors, where you get colored powdered thrown on you as a blessing of joy. Such a great, new experience)
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