Step Back

 It was my first time that I had went skiing that year, and at the time my life was pretty hectic. I wondered if it was a good idea to go with my friends that day, because there were many things I felt could've been accomplished by staying home. I talked to my parents and told them that I wasn't going to go with my friends to seven springs. When my dad heard he pulled me to the side and gave me some of the best advice I have ever heard. He told me that he knows how crazy my life had been, and that I felt like I needed to stay home, but sometimes you need to step away and completely forget about the situation. So I went, but never really fully understood what he was trying to tell me.

On my way up the ski lift, I was still in sort of depression mode, with things running through my head. My friends asked what was wrong but I didn't have an answer for them. When we got to the top, we got off the lift and took a seat for a second waiting for the snowboarders to get their bindings snapped in. And when I sat down, looked out over the mountain with the pure white snow coating every inch with people happily flying down the hill on skis I finally realized exactly what my dad meant. For the rest of the day there wasn't one thing that could have gotten in my way of being happy, being myself.

It is very hard for us to not think about whats most important on our mind, because our priorities make it that way. We think in order of importance. But when you seperate yourself from the normal world, you no longer feel like it is important to worry so much. That day, the most important thing on my mind was getting down the hill alive. And when I got back in the car, I saw a lot of things much clearer.

Memoir

A day of nothing to do, nowhere to b e, and three guys bored out of their mind. My friends Jon, Andrew, and myself start brainstorming things to come up with for the rest of the day. Do we go outside and play some sort of backyard sport, do we drive around all day hoping to find someone to save us, or do we do something completely random that none of us had ever guessed we’d be doing? And if you knew us, you would know that we picked that last option. A commercial comes on the TV for Cabela’s , and someone asks, “how far away is that?” The answer we found was around an hour, which made it even more appealing to us, because the farther away the better. Now you must remember that none of us had any intention whatsoever to purchase anything at this store based on the fact that we’ve never hunted before, and fishing wan’t big on our list either. But for some reason it still called to us. So we jumped in our cars, told our parents we were going to each other’s houses, and met at Jon’s. We drove and felt so free, nobody there telling us what to do, listening to our music, and forgetting about everything else in our lives. We got to the point where we were almost too content with our situation, as we took the completely wrong highway and ended up in a complete different state. Did this bother us though, absolutely not. In fact, we just laughed it off and found more good than harm done. When we arrived at Cabelas, we were completely lost in a world that none of us were introduced to, we didn’t fit in at all. But we stuck together and walked around that store keeping our minds open. From elephants, to rooms full of deer, to aquariums, to just the people in general at a Cabelas in West Virginia, we were having a lot of fun. We didn’t fit in, but we were perfectly fine with that. And I’m sure that if I was with anybody else that day, even if we did somehow end up at Cabelas, we would be there for five minutes and get out,  but not my friends. We stuck it out, and really got to see a different lifestyle than what we are used to.

And believe it or not, if we were ever bored in the summer, we grabbed our fishing rods and went to a lake. Opening your eyes to things out of the ordinary gives you new dimensions of life to think about. Now I haven’t seen Jon for about four months, but  Andrew and I still try to do our best opening our minds up and keep some sort of diversity in our lives.

9 Things nobody knows about me

1. Im in love with captain crunch
2. I win solitaire at least once a day
3. I don't actually like blogging, but i have to
4. If it was possible in todays society i would do away with computers and cell phones
5. I like to drive
6. I like any type of music
7. I don't really like sleeping, but when i go to sleep i can't wake up
8. I hate dealing with alot of people at once
9. i was going to do 10 but the bells about to ring