Go Big or Go Home

I definitely do not want to be an average joe. Being crazily, insanely famous would be the best feeling in the universe. Actually, I want to be the greatest human being that ever lived for the next 1,000 years or more. However, trying to be a war hero is not the route that I want to go. Maybe be the greatest lacrosse player that has ever picked up a stick, using the plethora of skills and maneuvers that I posess to dominate the game. Maybe I'll be the most influential skateboarder, inventing tricks and performing them instantly making the crowd roar with excitement. My prowess will change sports for all time. Big dreams; big , dangerous dreams that would be nice to accomplish in my young life to be remembered throughout history. I'm not going to be the next "MJ" or the next Tony Hawk. In the future, everyone will want to be the next "Hamer, the Prodigy." Sure, there may be a few people that will try to replace me between now and the next thousand years, but they won't, because I will be the greatest.

A Favorite of my Childhood

When I was younger, between the ages of six and ten, I read many, many books. I read all of the stories with all the interesting little animals that shared wisdom for life, The Berenstein Bears, and Dr. Seuss. To be honest, I wasn't really a book person back in the day; I liked comics better. I was really a big fan of the Archie comics. Archie was cool sometimes, but Jughead was my favorite character. I always liked the comic relief that he provided due to his constant hunger and apathetic nature. Even though I did not understand all of it at times because it was ahead of my time (they spent like six years in high school), there was something about the realism of the comic that intrigued me. Archie gave me a sort of idea of what the future would bring through school, at home and in life. I mean, sure I liked the superhero comics, but they started to become cliche and predictable as I got older. Sometimes when they were not, they just became weird and diluted. I eventually took a break from Archie, and switched over to anime comics. Now, seven years later, I found all of my old Archie and Jughead comics in the back of my closet, behind Naruto and DragonBall, and brought back memories of Riverdale High.

Philosophy in Siddhartha

In my personal opinion, this kind of thinking would be hard to grasp as a westerner because most of us have been raised to think that we have to learn to grow, experience life before we can be wise, in that order. The idea of already containing wisdom and being on a journey toward perfection never occurs to westerners due to the fact that we never try to find ourselves; we don't think that we already embody all of the answers to eternal life. I've never bothered to look deeply inside of myself to find the old man within me. In fact, I've associated old with being crippled and closer to death. I would rather not be a wise old man; I would rather be young and naive until the time comes for me to accept my fate. That journey will be traveled on a slow pace, hopefully, because perfection is not my ultimate goal in life. Its what I do on my journey that makes life worthwhile.