All is Fair in Love and.. What?
Hello, throughout this blog you will read experiences throughout my life, good or bad, and the lessons I've learned from them. You will read quotes, see pictures, and hear music that will hopefully have a truly positive impact on your outlook on life along with the aesthetic experiences that life, itself, entail.
I'm a High School graduate of the Class of 2011. I am currently living at home, and do not attend college at the moment. Drawing near the end of my senior year, I made a decision to enlist in the U.S. Navy. Eager to get started, I took the ASVAB, which stands for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Basically, a placement test to see what jobs I can qualify for in the Service. My test results were not as high as I had originally set out for. Disappointed, I realized the amount of responsibility and courage it was going to take to endure the long transformation from civilian to official U.S. soldier. After graduation, I had second thoughts about leaving my friends and family so abruptly to pursue my personal goal to travel the globe and learn everything this world has to offer. I felt that I have many more people to meet here as well as more to learn from the people I already trust and respect. After all, I was only 18 at the time and didn't want to bite off more than I can chew. I decided to stay home and take a year off from school to put my mind at ease and figure out what I really want to do with my life.
Over this time, I've learned that essentially, money is nothing but a material object that is capable of representing and/or acting as a tangible form of many emotions ranging between love and hate, consideration and indifference, and even friendship and revenge. That being said, I have little interest in directing my energy towards being a wealthful individual as I grow old, as I believe that making money is not what I was born to do. I believe in a more soulful purpose to place nothing more than common sense in this chaotic world. I speak in the sense of enlightening the minds of our fellow human beings and reaching the point where we, as a whole, will realize that killing our own kind is senseless and will eventually lead to the demise of our entire species. We, as humans need to learn to coexist no matter the religion you follow or the views that clash.
Speaking of religion, you might be curious as to what my religious viewpoints are. I was raised Catholic, but as I grew older, my curiosity grew as well. Throughout my high school years I passionately indulged in smoke-break conversations with people raised in different religions such as Jehovah's Witness, Muslim, Judaism, Hinduism, and even Buddhism. Appreciating my opinion and urge to be inquisitive in my understanding of divinity, my diverse group of smoking buddies fed me knowledge every day. I then found myself looking forward to that lunch period each day for I would learn more in that forty-four minutes than I was learning in my nine mandatory subjects. In the end, I've learned to respect where each person comes from and the religious ideals that they carry and believe proudly. Our frequent and respected arguments and discussions turned indifference towards each others opinions into an understood, tightly knit common ground. I also started to grow doubts in Catholicism. No offense, but the idea of a fiery, terrible place that was created solely for eternal torture of misbehaved souls seems a little far-fetched to me. Granted, I have had a significant experience that got a few nights of prayer out of me.(I will post that story, eventually.)But in the end, I've decided to keep an open mind for now. What religion do I follow? None. I place my confidence in the belief that God is in each one of us, waiting patiently for us to unveil the true power he had planted deeply in each of our souls. In conclusion, I ask myself, why do some cultures and countries involve themselves in religious turf-wars with one another? Some have been continuing for hundreds of years! Maybe their appointed religious leaders should skip lunch and go out for a smoke break one day. Hey, it worked for my diverse circle of delinquent friends.
People tell me that I have a contagious brand of optimism. And deep down, I know that my actions are driven by a genuine inspiration to find the good in people as I have found in myself. Blessed with this trait combination, the ability to find inner peace and happiness comes to me seemingly more easily as opposed to others. I see it as a gift to move confidently and positively in the direction of helping people not just on an exponential scale, for it must begin on a smaller, day-to-day basis.
Stick around, there's more to come.
Hello, throughout this blog you will read experiences throughout my life, good or bad, and the lessons I've learned from them. You will read quotes, see pictures, and hear music that will hopefully have a truly positive impact on your outlook on life along with the aesthetic experiences that life, itself, entail.
I'm a High School graduate of the Class of 2011. I am currently living at home, and do not attend college at the moment. Drawing near the end of my senior year, I made a decision to enlist in the U.S. Navy. Eager to get started, I took the ASVAB, which stands for Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. Basically, a placement test to see what jobs I can qualify for in the Service. My test results were not as high as I had originally set out for. Disappointed, I realized the amount of responsibility and courage it was going to take to endure the long transformation from civilian to official U.S. soldier. After graduation, I had second thoughts about leaving my friends and family so abruptly to pursue my personal goal to travel the globe and learn everything this world has to offer. I felt that I have many more people to meet here as well as more to learn from the people I already trust and respect. After all, I was only 18 at the time and didn't want to bite off more than I can chew. I decided to stay home and take a year off from school to put my mind at ease and figure out what I really want to do with my life.
Over this time, I've learned that essentially, money is nothing but a material object that is capable of representing and/or acting as a tangible form of many emotions ranging between love and hate, consideration and indifference, and even friendship and revenge. That being said, I have little interest in directing my energy towards being a wealthful individual as I grow old, as I believe that making money is not what I was born to do. I believe in a more soulful purpose to place nothing more than common sense in this chaotic world. I speak in the sense of enlightening the minds of our fellow human beings and reaching the point where we, as a whole, will realize that killing our own kind is senseless and will eventually lead to the demise of our entire species. We, as humans need to learn to coexist no matter the religion you follow or the views that clash.
Speaking of religion, you might be curious as to what my religious viewpoints are. I was raised Catholic, but as I grew older, my curiosity grew as well. Throughout my high school years I passionately indulged in smoke-break conversations with people raised in different religions such as Jehovah's Witness, Muslim, Judaism, Hinduism, and even Buddhism. Appreciating my opinion and urge to be inquisitive in my understanding of divinity, my diverse group of smoking buddies fed me knowledge every day. I then found myself looking forward to that lunch period each day for I would learn more in that forty-four minutes than I was learning in my nine mandatory subjects. In the end, I've learned to respect where each person comes from and the religious ideals that they carry and believe proudly. Our frequent and respected arguments and discussions turned indifference towards each others opinions into an understood, tightly knit common ground. I also started to grow doubts in Catholicism. No offense, but the idea of a fiery, terrible place that was created solely for eternal torture of misbehaved souls seems a little far-fetched to me. Granted, I have had a significant experience that got a few nights of prayer out of me.(I will post that story, eventually.)But in the end, I've decided to keep an open mind for now. What religion do I follow? None. I place my confidence in the belief that God is in each one of us, waiting patiently for us to unveil the true power he had planted deeply in each of our souls. In conclusion, I ask myself, why do some cultures and countries involve themselves in religious turf-wars with one another? Some have been continuing for hundreds of years! Maybe their appointed religious leaders should skip lunch and go out for a smoke break one day. Hey, it worked for my diverse circle of delinquent friends.
People tell me that I have a contagious brand of optimism. And deep down, I know that my actions are driven by a genuine inspiration to find the good in people as I have found in myself. Blessed with this trait combination, the ability to find inner peace and happiness comes to me seemingly more easily as opposed to others. I see it as a gift to move confidently and positively in the direction of helping people not just on an exponential scale, for it must begin on a smaller, day-to-day basis.
Stick around, there's more to come.
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