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You are You

     Why do we not live for ourselves   As I get older and start having to choose between what I want for my life and what others want for my life, I have started to realize that at the end of the day, my choice is the only thing that matters. Our parents decide to put their past faults and their childhood expectations on us because they want the ability to try again but that time has gone. Realistically , you have to live for yourself. I know that it is harder to do than say but I want to explain the reason why it is so important to do it early on.   Imagine this, you in your 20's to early 30's not going on that cruise because your mother wanted you to stay home and be with her watching oldies all weekend. On that cruise was the CEO of some major company that you have been trying to connect with and now you have missed it because of something so small. Yeah, your mom is happy but how does that moment enhance your future. That one moment that she may have cried ...
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What is the true gain?

Choices   Today was the first time in 26 years I truly noticed that I was over with having fun. What has changed? It wasn't that I didn't want to have fun. It was that fact that my idea of fun had changed. I didn't want to spend sleepless nights grinding away at a game where the only prize at the end was a "you won" screen. I didn't want to sit in some random bar drinking and playing pool while a bunch of idiots come over to me spewing random words to entice me in bed. I wanted to have the type of fun that got me here. The endless long nights driving from state to state. The sights that, as a child, I thought would be impossible to see. The stories from random strangers while laying inside a broken tent. I wanted to still learn.  We have spent so much of our time wasting away trying to get to the "next level" but what is that really. As I create my goals for today, I really want to think about the challenges that brought me here and the new challenge...
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