Yeah so my younger sis, Mymy(15), & I(22) decide to take a mini road trip along the east coast. She had spent a month down in Nashville with me and with school a week away what better time to head off to Michigan. Coincidently my <3 was flying out of Jfk to leave the country around that time so we figured we'd drop him off in NYC(mind you he was visiting his homecountry on the other side of the world for the next month and won't get back till after I move to Oregon so this was our end fortunately I'm not the emotional type so it wasn't too bad).Once we arrived to downtown Philly along with my debit card(I don't carry cash) and ID I lost my only car key-yeah my sis wasn't happy about that at all. Once we finally moved on to D.C. we had to cut the sight seeing short because some how along the way I had hurt my foot (mind you I'm a fairly healthy 20 something with a high threshhold for pain but even I wasn't able to continue walking). Talk about disaster right?
Wrong! I had the most amazing time of my life and would/will do it all over again. We had great adventures through our mis-adventures. We also met some great people along the way who happend to be quite interesting and amazing cooks that were kind enough to put us up for the nights we were out and about. Much was seen and even more learned. If I ever get the time I’ll dribble on about the details but for now all I can say is no matter how insignificant a destination may seem if you get the chance to eascape the comfort of home and explore some place new DO IT! It’s not the destination so much that matters but rather the journey, right?
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Any questions or comments or travelers lookin for a companion get at me. ;)
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It’s our world. It’s our land. It’s our home. And yet somewhere along there is a diconnect that hinders mankind from seeing the reality of mankind and breaks it into all sorts of divisions Americans-vs-Mexicans-vs-O’zbeks-vs-Ethiopians-vs-Iraqis, etc. Then here you have Irish,English,etc.-Americans vs Mexican-Americans vs African-Americans vs Asian-Americans. Even more you have rich-vs-poor, male-vs-female, punk-vs-preps, northerners-vs-southeners-vs-westerners, homo-vs-hetero. Any sort of distinction is used to draw a line of division rather than appreciating the beauty of unique-ness :)
Further more as a result we lose sight of our responsibilities to eachother-helping one another. It is now our mentality that we shouldn’t do anything to hinder someone else’s pursuit of happiness, but shouldn’t it rather be we should do something to accelerate ones pursuit of happiness?
I’m a big beleiver that each of us had an obligation to maintaining this earth as well as man kind be it by God’s command or just an inherent rule of the universe. It’s what motoivated me to start donating blood on a regular basis. It’s what motivating me to try to receycle on a consistent basis before anyone begins telling me I have to. It’s what makes me want to pick up the hithch hikers along the rode. And the reason I wanted & still want to hug the homeless.
This goal is the hope that maybe I’ll be able to influence even one and stir the call that’s already burried deep within them beneath all the “what if?” fears and societal(not humanity’s) greeds of collecting the most toys. It could be getting someone to recycle or donate blood or some other form of community/humanity service.
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Of course you always have to be some what cautious, but I think it’s sad that now a days you have to be espeically cautious. I’m a 5’4” 120lb young girl and as much as I want to help out the people I see trudging along the road, like I’ve had to do so many times in my life when I had no vehicle or family, it’s difficult. In this day in age even the ones people are closest to manage to do horrible things to them then discard them to the gutter as though there a piece of trash.
I beleive while there is much bad there is even more good in this world and the only way it’s going to be brought to the forefront is if we do it ourselves…the news, tv and radios certainly won’t. So I hope that I’ll over come one more of the many fears instilled in us since we were young. You can’t live your life in fear of “what if’s”. “What if I try to fly but the plane crashes?” “What if I try to get that job but don’t” “What if I try to drive but get in a car accident?” “What if I try to go for a walk but someone mugs me?” We’re told to dream big and reach for the stars but then by way of the trillions of negative news broadcasts(which oddly enough seem to supercede the positive broadcasts by 100 to 1 on, a good day) we have so many “what if” doubts embedded in us.
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