Awareness

On Awareness

It seems cliche to post about but if you don't put yourself in a position to experience the world you won't appreciate it.  If you stick to the same routine every day you're limiting yourself to a confined all around existence.  Your house/apartment, the inside of your car, your workplace back to your car and then back into your house.  Find different ways to get to work.  Take the bus and meet new people.  Ride your bike or take some extra time and walk somewhere to feel the wind in your hair and the sweat on your brow.  Without new experiences, sensations and feelings your not really storing any new memories.  Ever wonder how months can flow by and you don't even notice?  Don't get stuck in the grind, you'll forget every day, day after day.  The same day over and over.  I try and ride my bike to work as often as possible and at first I would kind of dread the hills and woe at the extra time I would "lose".  Now I find myself leaving earlier and earlier so I can go father out of my way on my bike, making up new convoluted ways to meander around town before I reach work, sweaty and exhilarated.  I've lost weight and I feel the months flowing by at a slower rate.  I'm in my 20s and I want to savor every drop of youth I have.  Wrapping up I'd like to beg you all, do something different, something weird, go out of your way.  See a road you've never been down?  Go get lost in a neighborhood you've never been to, ask for directions once your hopelessly confounded.  In new experiences you'll find yoursef.