This past week has just added to the list of amazing things I have experienced this summer. This past week alone I camped with my brother, fished for hours on end, took a road trip to meet up with many of my best friends from college, enjoyed a wonderful day at Cedar Point, spent hours on an electronic project (headphone amp), seen (and heard) the product of said work, finished two books, stargazed, listened to amazing music, ran in the woods, rode my bike through the beautiful woods, simplified my life a little bit, got away from the internet, and enjoyed every single second of it.
My aim in life is to live like this. Happy every minute of every day, and not regretting just sitting on my butt.
Here’s to life!
Cheers :)
~SK
…so many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day, to have a new and different sun.
— Chris McCandless - “Into the Wild”
I’ve been on my weight gaining diet for quite a while now, and while no significant weight gain has occurred, I do feel different. I have been drinking a gallon of milk a day (GOMAD), and eating a significant number of calories each day, and if I keep up the weight lifting and strength training, I’m sure to gain some weight.
I’ll be hitting the gym in a few hours (after a high protein meal of course), and I will update here if I’m gaining weight or strength.
In other news, I have been reading a lot, but I think I will step it up and read even more. I’m aiming for a big book a week (or several smaller ones including ebooks), and I might start putting up video reviews. I hope to find other people who do something similar, so I can find more books and get good recommendations from people who enjoy the same genres that I do.
If that doesn’t work out, I might start writing about my adventures. I am not working this summer, so I hope to continue (as I have been) to adventure and explore wherever and whenever possible. Today, for example, I will be heading up to a lake that I have never fished before, and possible mountain bike in the trails that surround the lake.
I might join the local bicycle club here, because I currently have nobody to ever ride with. None of my friends bike, and it isn’t the safest sport to go off into the woods by yourself. Who knows, maybe I’ll meet some more younger mountain bikers in the area through the local shop.
I also took up the tin whistle/pennywhistle/irish whistle the other day, and I am trying to teach myself how to read sheet music. My mom plays the piano, so she has been helping me quite a bit. I have a book full of awesome jigs that I hope to be able to play someday.
