I’ve been on a mission.
Throughout the last 6 months (notice a theme of life revelations for me??), I have thought extensively about my life, where I am, where I want to be, and how I want to get there. The one thing I can conclude is that I can’t come to any conclusions. And though it sounds cliché, and perhaps cheesy, I will say this – I am truly a believer in the journey, and not the destination.
This means I am adamant on the following:
1. I will read more books. Classics. The ones that I feel were left for us in history and time to better our understanding of the past… and help us understand our own future. And while people’s opinions of these classics vary, I have drawn from a variety of sources before – whether a sports reading list, or a classics list from a tshirt company . i'm going to incorporate them all with this one.
2. I will travel. A lot. It’s an itch in me that I need to scratch. My sister was surprised to hear yesterday that I travel alone a lot – even if it meant travelling to montreal by myself for a few days, or seattle for 10 days alone… I just need to travel. To me, if I could just go somewhere new each week, somewhere I’ve never been before, that would make me happy. But I also believe that there are things that have been left here on this earth for us to soak in – whether left by God, or some civilizations before us… and I want to try to see as many of them as possible. So I’m basing my list on these.
3. I want to visit the places that hold our history’s knowledge. The places that maintain the wealth of knowledge that we as humanity have been building for millenniums. I am a huge fan of libraries, so it seems only natural that i insist on visiting the places around the world that maintain one of the most important things to me – knowledge, and a symbolic piece of where we have come from, and in what direction we are going to. so i'll insist on these ones - and i've got 2 down already!
With some direction, and checklists (goodness knows I LOVE my checklists), I’ll be on the right track. Making note of the things I really want to do, makes me accountable. To myself.
So with a giant leap…
Throughout the last 6 months (notice a theme of life revelations for me??), I have thought extensively about my life, where I am, where I want to be, and how I want to get there. The one thing I can conclude is that I can’t come to any conclusions. And though it sounds cliché, and perhaps cheesy, I will say this – I am truly a believer in the journey, and not the destination.
This means I am adamant on the following:
1. I will read more books. Classics. The ones that I feel were left for us in history and time to better our understanding of the past… and help us understand our own future. And while people’s opinions of these classics vary, I have drawn from a variety of sources before – whether a sports reading list, or a classics list from a tshirt company . i'm going to incorporate them all with this one.
2. I will travel. A lot. It’s an itch in me that I need to scratch. My sister was surprised to hear yesterday that I travel alone a lot – even if it meant travelling to montreal by myself for a few days, or seattle for 10 days alone… I just need to travel. To me, if I could just go somewhere new each week, somewhere I’ve never been before, that would make me happy. But I also believe that there are things that have been left here on this earth for us to soak in – whether left by God, or some civilizations before us… and I want to try to see as many of them as possible. So I’m basing my list on these.
3. I want to visit the places that hold our history’s knowledge. The places that maintain the wealth of knowledge that we as humanity have been building for millenniums. I am a huge fan of libraries, so it seems only natural that i insist on visiting the places around the world that maintain one of the most important things to me – knowledge, and a symbolic piece of where we have come from, and in what direction we are going to. so i'll insist on these ones - and i've got 2 down already!
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| the trinity college library in dublin; the seattle central library, in seattle washington |
So with a giant leap…
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| photo originally from we heart it |