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.