Starting from Scratch
The past year of my life has been fairly stagnant compared to the four or five preceeding years. I’ve accomplished very little other than living the normal paycheck to paycheck life. My days consisted of waking up late for work; Arriving at work; Working til 5pm; Driving home from work; Cooking dinner; play World of Warcraft; Sleep; Repeat. This was my routine up until about two months ago when I decided to leave my house and head back to live with my parentals (Yeah I know, very loserish eh), quit World of Warcraft, and actually start trying to figure out my long term life plans.
A brief background on my life before this. After graduating (barely) from High School, I ended up becoming a semi successful online poker player. I say barely graduated because I had missed so many days of school my Senior year, they really didn’t want to give me my diploma. As for the online poker front, I really only got by because of friends. There was a lot of travelling that took place during those four years. The people and the places I saw helped shape my world view and overall personality.
I made the decision in March of 08′ to return to my home town (St. Joseph MO) from San Jose Costa Rica and to figure out what I was going to do with my life as opposed to just living off of someone elses. Thus far I have made little progress, hence the statement about the stagnant life. I have a round about plan, or rather a plan that isn’t going to be exactly easy to accomplish by any stretch of the imagination. Unfortunately it is the only one that has any appeal to me at all, other than give up, work at a gaming store of some type, and disappear into gaming until I die.
A big part of life that is hard for me to fathom giving up on for however long is the travel. Honestly, staying in one place for any long period of time is tricky for me. I’m not the most social of people, and on many occasion am known to declare that I hate everyone. This is usually in jest, so lets just say I’m not very big on socializing. I have no issue dropping everything and going to some random country on the map. There is a big portion of the world that I still would like to experience, and by experience, I mean before I am 35. I figure at some point that whole get married and settle down thing might actually make sense to me, so I want to get the travelling out before that part of my life kicks in. That isn’t to say that I won’t want to travel when / if I have a family and kids, but obviously there is a difference between family travel and single travel that I don’t need to explain.
I guess this can be called my new beginning, at the age of … well 24 in about 39 days. I’ve tried on multiple occassions to start a blog, but typically for the wrong reasons. The right reason I guess would be for self improvement. I’m not really writing this down to entertain others, but more as a reminder to myself that this is what I am doing. If someone were to read this and find it entertaining or helpful or whatever, then so be it. However, if I write to entertain I will quickly run out of things to say and realize that my life is not all that entertaining, and it is in no means special in comparison to anyone elses. Lets see if this will help me keep the blog in motion, or if it dies out like my other tries.
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