I actually wrote most of the following nearly a month ago, when this blog was just a fleeting thought. I have much more initial content, but I do not want to rush the groundwork for this blog, so I will be releasing it in parts over the next few days as I polish it into the picture I envision.
Next month I will be twenty three years of age and I have decided it is time for my life to take a direction I can be proud to embrace. While I do not want to say that I have hated my life, These first 22 years have not been the most enjoyable. No, I have not been impoverished, wrongfully imprisoned, or plagued with disease, but these years have lacked direction, goals, desire, ambition, and hope.
The overwhelming majority of my life has been controlled, dictated, and smothered by plans others have lain before me. Like most of you reading this, I was required to be enrolled in school at an early age, and 2/3 of every year since has been consumed by school and school work. After primary education, I moved onto collegiate studies, because that is the status quo and that is what is expected, and that is was I was told to do. I hated every second I spent there.
I was given these instructions by parents, aunts and uncles, teachers, advisors and mentors. These were the people that “knew” how life was “supposed” to unfold. In addition to schooling, I also spent much of my time working. I worked summers, afternoons, nights, and weekends to pay for my schooling and to funnel some money into my hobbies to keep me sane. Im sure, like most of you, I cannot claim to have enjoyed most of my time spent at my job(s) either. Now I have graduated from college and, thus far, nothing has changed. Except that I can embellish upon my resume a line that says I have in fact graduated from college.
Up until now I have let the expectations of others and past experiences drag me into some semblance of average.
This first insight into my plan for Chasing Epic Dreams will likely be the last pieces of dwelling on my negative view of my past you will ever see. From here on out, Chasing Epic Dreams is about creating amazing experiences and realizing childhood wonder.
After so many years of telling my self that my dreams were impossible, I have instituted a paradigm shift in my life and I am going after my dreams now. My wildest dreams are possible! I can have and do whatever I want, and I am incredibly excited to get there!
“Hey! You haven’t even told us your dreams yet!”
Don’t worry, the big reveal will come soon enough. In the mean time, let me tell you the penultimate drive behind my desire to type out this blog.
This blog is not about me. This blog is about you. Yes you, the reader. I see you there, sitting behind your keyboard browsing the internet. You’re mostly just looking for a distraction. You are weary and you have bags beneath your eyes, but you can’t sleep. You are not at peace when you lay down to sleep at night and millions of thoughts, phrases, ideas, desires, fears, hopes, conversations, scenarios, and images swirl about your mind like an existential tornado. You want to find peace and happiness, and you want to find purpose. I’m here to tell you that nobody is ever going to drop a roadmap to purpose via the 405 through happiness on your lap. I’m here to tell you that you can find your purpose and desires deep inside yourself and you can achieve them! In fact, you probably already know what you want, you’re just too busy telling yourself that its just not possible. Im here documenting my journey with all of its road blocks and imperfections to prove to the world that the status quo can be broken, so everybody can break down their own!
So there you have it. As I said, this is not about me, this is about you. If achieving my goals was only about me I could just look at myself in the mirror everyday and say; “Hey good lookin’, you’re awesome today. Let’s go crush some goals!” Instead I have chosen to blog about what I am doing on the most public platform ever created. Its not like my goals are “get a $40K/year job” or “ have a newer car and a dog by my next birthday”. Hell no! Did you see the title of the blog? Its not “Chasing Average Dreams” or “Have 2.5 Kids and Retire in Florida by 2045”. This is Chasing Epic Dreams. The only way to prove to the world that Epic Dreams are possible is to go out and chase them.