PARDON MY GRAMMAR (i'm being a lazy writer)
It doesnt take alot for something to blow my mind. I'm easily fascinated...
BUT, as of late, I've been seeing everything little thing as a larger sign of something so much bigger! Okay but mainly I have to write about a great conversation I had, I believe, last week. So there was this luncheon for all Spanish majors, so of course me and Nathan didn't even think twice at the fact there was going to be giving out free food. The plan was to go, get food and jet out of there. But we walk in sign in, get our food and realize that if you're there for the Spanish luncheon then you have to actually sit with the people from the Spanish department. Now me and Nathan look at each other and we realize, damn it...what did we get ourselves into, we should've known free food was going to come with a catch. So we sit, the professors are like thrilled to meet us, shaking our hands, arguably like the happiest people you'd ever meet Now keep in mind they're professors from the Spanish dept. so they're all speaking spanish and so we obviously have to communicate with them in Spanish. So i'm trying to eat my nachos, I get cheese in my hair, Nathan looks uncomfortable, they're asking us questions. It was one of those awkward moments. BUT ANYWAY... to get to my point and what's been on my mind since this day is this:
One of the professors comes over sits with us and we start talking about our future with him. And he told us something so true and great. He had me nodding my head like 'preach it sir' the entire time. He said something along the lines of one of my favorite mottos. He told us, you have to be challenged and always choose the harder route. Because when you decide upon the harder route of something, its going to end up resulting in an unforgettable experience. He told us, if you go outside right now and climb that small hill, you will forget you did it by the end of the week. If you go and climb Mount Everest however, now that will be something you'll never forget it. Seems obvious right? But this is an anology I truly want to base my life on and I want to share with anyone or everyone who may feel they are experiencing difficulties. If you think about taking the easy route to ANYTHING, what will you remember from it? What can you be proud of? Does what we do, the decisions we make, make us who we are? Or??? Hmmm I dont know, something interesting to think about I guess..
The idea is, that I've realized however, is that its so easy to stay in the comfort of what you know--the same lifestyle, same group of friends, same routine etc. Its all we become to know, and it begins to seem like what WE KNOW, becomes WHO WE are. And we become comfortable with what we know, and the idea that it becomes who we are, because its all we know, or rather, all we care to know( read that twice). We forget about our dreams, the bucket list we 'once had', those ambitions we once set that linger in the dark corners of the back our mind. This is a depressing thought.
My hope for myself, and for everyone (especially those I care for) is that I may (and you) never become comfortable with my surroundings. Or rather, that I never let comfort limit me from doing everything I plan to do. For now, and yes I understand that what I want may change, I never want to be fully satisfied or settled--that my ambition will never cease to fight for everything I wan to live up to be. Sounds dramatic I know, but its A REVELATION!!
My spanish professor picked a scab I had once picked at before. And letting the blood out, felt amazing! Meaning to say, that it was a great conversation. I look at what I know about my professors life (he knows over a dozen languages, has traveled the world, lived in different parts of the world) and I say, so me and Nathan look at each other and say...Dang so it is possible to be old and still be living and believing that there's still so much more you can do even when you're at that age. When he left the cafeteria, me and Nate were in awe....And then to top off fact that he blew us away, through the window we saw the old professor ride his bike off into the distance.
I want to be the old man who rides his bike in the distance leaving nerdy kids in awe.
