Damned if I do, bored if I don’t
Epigraph
Today
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today, I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
– Groucho Marx
A Visual Dairy
“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.”
Andy Warhol
Discovery
Expect the unexpected…and you will find it.
Anti-Social
“If you have good experiences with social media, nothing in this book invalidates those experiences. In fact, my hope is that we—meaning both the industry and all of us—will find a way to keep and improve on what we love precisely by being precise about what must be rejected. Deleting your accounts now will improve the chances that you’ll have access to better experiences in the future. Some have compared social media to the tobacco industry, but I will not. The better analogy is paint that contains lead. When it became undeniable that lead was harmful, no one declared that houses should never be painted again. Instead, after pressure and legislation, lead-free paints became the new standard. Smart people simply waited to buy paint until there was a safe version on sale. Similarly, smart people should delete their accounts until nontoxic varieties are available.”
Get Lost
“…to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be
capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost
but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a
chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.”
– A Field Guide To Getting Lost
The Rules
The only rules that matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do.
– Captain Jack Sparrow
I Aim To Misbehave
“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”
Orson Welles.
Sure Of It
“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Something Good
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
Anthony Bourdain
Take The Long Way
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Here & There
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here. -Charles Bukowski