I am my own experiment

"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life." Herbert Otto

This is why I love adventures.

Isn't that fantastic? A person who has risked himself and dared to become involved with experimenting with his own life, trusting himself. To do this, to experiment with your own life, is very exhilarating, full of joy, full of happiness, full of wonder, and yet it's so frightening. Frightening because you are dealing with the unknown, and you are shaking complacency.

The Animal School

The animals got together in the forest one day and decided to start a school. There was a rabbit, a squirrel, a fish, and an eel, and they formed a Board of Education. The rabbit insisted that running be in the curriculum. The bird insisted that flying be in the curriculum. The fish insisted that swimming be in the curriculum, and the squirrel insisted that perpendicular tree climbing be in the curriculum. They put all these things together and wrote a Curriculum Guide. Then they insisted that ALL of the animals take ALL of the subjects. Although the rabbit was getting an A in running, perpendicular tree climbing was a real problem for him; he kept falling over backwards. Pretty soon he got to be sort of brain damaged, and couldn't run any more. He found that instead of making an A in running, he was now making a C, and, of course, he was always making an F in perpendicular climbing. The bird was really beautiful at flying, but when it came to burrowing in the ground, he couldn't do so well. He kept breaking his beak and wings. Pretty soon he was making a C in flying as well as an F in burrowing, and he had a hellava time with perpendicular tree climbing.
The moral of the story is that the person who was valedictorian was a mentally retarded eel who did everything in a half-way fashion. But the educators were all happy because everyone was taking all of the subjects, and it was called broad-based education.

New Goal(s)

Life is boring and routine. Learn something new every day. Do something new every day.

• life is boring and routine
• wake up --> go to class --> eat --> study --> go to club meeting --> sleep --> do it all again
• same thing every. single. day.
• walk in a circle for four years
• Learn something new every day
• correction: learn new things every day
• new knowledge in class and outside
• someone I don't know
• skills of life
• Do something new every day
• let's keep it PG-13
• socialize with new people
• possibly adventures
• talk to friends I haven't kept in touch with

*Note: actions not limited to items above

I had a dream #3

Last night's dream...
I was arguing with my dad. Arguments are very rare in my life, but this one was very fierce. Dreams tend to be very obscure and blurry, so I couldn't tell whether we were fighting over having the courage to call someone or about a flashlight. At any rate, I stood up to my dad, which is also something I've never done. After our heated fight, I began to cry at how stupid our argument was. Why the hell were we arguing about a trivial item like a flashlight? Were we really going to ruin our relationship over something so minuscule? As tears began to flow from my eyes, I left the room.

When I woke up, it was 9:59 am. I was going to be late for my 10:00 class.