Today I talked with my brother on the phone. My very good friend was there as well for the chat. We talked about everything under the sun basically, but the one thing that i'm still thinking of is that my friend asked me:"So what do you see or imagine yourself doing after school?" I guess you can say we 3 are in another one of our quarter life crisis' We all 3 declared that we want to travel. Meet people. We want to(in my friend's words) "Go to the Eiffel Tower not to look at it, but to meet the people under it." There is so much that school can't teach you. Wisdom is not always from learning. A great deal of wisdom comes from experience. I'm currently reading Kurt Vonnegut's
Breakfast of Champions and I want to go meet and experience those people that he so wonderfully describes. I want to meet the Kilgores, Harries, and Dwaynes of the world. With all this rattling around in my head, i'm making a improvised list of things to accomplish this summer....
1. Get a job. (thats a given, not too worried about it)
2.Write some more music
3.Hang out with my little brother more often
4. Hang out with my dog more often
5.Go to a Grizzly Bear and La Dispute concert
6. Take a week long road trip around IN, MI, and IL, with friends
7. Get a tattoo
8.Go train hopping
9.Write a letter to my friends in Africa
10.Re-shoot a skate video we made last summer but our camera got smashed, thus losing all footage.
11. Finish these 4 books i've started reading
12.That G-d would reveal how much of a gift this life is. And how I need to quit abusing it.
13.I would really like to paint something grand
14. Turning 21
15.More to come, when I think of them....
