Goooaaaal!!!

So here I am, yet again after a few weeks of being M.I.A.

As I touched ground on the tarmac of the Iceland Airport, tired from spending just about a day traveling and hanging out at airports, the first thought to enter my mind was that I wanted to immediately hop on the next plane out and do it all over again. It´s amazing how liberating it is for your body and especially your mind to escape from your normal day to day life and spend a few weeks in another country, having fun getting reacquainted with old friends and making new ones, spending your days relaxing, taking in the sights and creating memories that will help shape who you are.

To avoid looking like a complete bum/creeper, I started carrying around a notebook while I was on my semi daily walk around the campus area. Made me look a little bit important, like a guy who had something to do. In this notebook I would jog down details for a possible project and an attempt at a “real poem”. I think I might have to consider carrying one around whenever I go for a drive, walk etc. Seems like a practical way to remember your thoughts when I get back home, because as we all know, inspiration doesn´t follow a schedule.

The desire to travel and experience new and exciting things is a nice hobby to have. Too bad it can be so expensive these days. Money should never be the main issue however, if everyone only looked at the financial side of this experience, no one would ever leave their town/country/region. I can’t speak for other people, but to me, there’s not a more boring thought than imagining your future 20 years from now and seeing yourself in the same town, dead end job, perhaps living a few houses down from where you grew up. I see people around that do that, and I see people who are on that same particular path, and I can´t help thinking to myself; all right, that may work for them and possibly makes them happy, but I do not want that, I have bigger dreams in life.

The USA, land of the free and home of the brave. Great times have been spent there and I was a little sad to leave. But there´s much to look forward to. In the really near future I will be employed by a good company, I will have begun writing either a novel or a novella, I will have established an effective workout/diet program and will be following them vigorously, shortly thereafter a good friend will arrive from overseas, Christmas  and soon after the new year I will have a new place to live, most likely with some people who will become close friends of mine.

It´s all about how you look at things, about the goals you set for yourself. I haven´t done that too much in the past, not really sure why. I read about successful people who go on and on about achieving the goals they set for themselves, and I celebrate whenever the football team I root for in a match scores one. Small goals, big goals; as important as water. Unemployment gives you time to think and reflect on your life. It opens your eyes to what your life is like, what it has been and where you want to take it. I haven´t been this idle since the summers before I started working, and even though I haven´t been thinking so clearly in ages, there´s still a big fog over some aspects surrounding the future, especially the how. I am walking down a path, got the crossroads in my sight, all that is left to do is see where the roads lead and figure out which one to walk down.

 

 

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