I’ve come up with various concepts I call “Food for Thought”.  I never intended to share them with others, as I’d purposed them only as self-reminders.  Here are some of the more quotable ones:

• Sometimes you gotta get burned before you stop putting your hand in the fire.

• “Shoulda, woulda, coulda” is for dreamers.  Action is for winners.

• Worrying is unnecessary.  Instead, be prepared.

• A messy environment begets a messy mind.

• Pride is an inhibitor of happiness.  Be gracious in your losses and humble in your victories.

• Just because everyone else is doing it, does not make it the smart thing to do.

I hope it helps.

I have been thinking about my future, and there’s still so many variables. So much potential, and yet many ways it can go awry.

This is what I do know: I don’t want to try and fit myself in somewhere that doesn’t feel right to me. I don’t believe I’ll ever be happy that way. If something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t. I only get one life so I want to enjoy it. That’s the way I’m thinking about things anyway. There have been things in life that when I encounter them, the stars align, and it feels right from the get-go. I’m constantly in search of things that give me that feeling.

I wonder how many people go through life doing things just because it’s something to do; how many major in something just for the big paycheck. I don’t know exactly how many, but I know I don’t want to be that kind of person. I want to be the kind of person that people say, “Wow, he seems happy.” What’s the point in acquiring that nice, fancy home if I’ll never have time to be in it because I’m too busy working to pay it off? What’s the point in starting a family if I’ll never get to see them? These are my concerns. I do not want to be so busy trying to get ahead in life that life passes me by.

I appreciate friends and family trying to push me toward something. It means they care. But the life they may see for me may not be the one that I feel good about. I don’t want to be a slave to convention. Convention is what makes me like everyone else, and that’s not who I want to be.

I want to be different. I want to be my own man. I want to be someone important who does important things, that changes the world, that touches people in a meaningful way. I want to be able to say, “Yes, my life has meaning, and I’ve done good.”

Life wasn’t meant to be mundane and routine. It’s not supposed to be hard. It was never meant to be a struggle. Life was always meant to be fun and exciting, an adventure filled with twist and turns, hope and joy, dreams, late nights, friends and laughter, sex and love. Everyone deserves to experience all of that. Everyone.

And I know I won’t get it right the first time. But that’s not going to keep me from trying.

Thanks for stopping by, bloggers. And have an awesome life.