Monday, August 1, 2011 – It’s been quite a long time since I posted last. I hope you’ve all been well. I’ve been going through some challenges that have put me in a place of doubt. I feel that I have been to this place many times in my life. It has a lot to do with my career, living situation, and the choices that I make to shape my life in a positive manner, but what I ultimately find is that it comes down to me comparing myself to others. I’ve been reading this book called “The Book of Secrets” by Deepak Chopra. Now I am not sure if I would recommend this book as I find there are some concepts that I either don’t have the ability to actualize or that my awareness in those areas are not developed. Regardless this book is a good read and if you’re open minded enough it could be very insightful. One of the things Chopra does mention is that you should not compare yourself to others which I find in our society is a hard thing to do. I don’t always do it but I find that I look at peoples careers and am jealous they know what they want to do, or I see some guy with his lady and she’s drop dead gorgeous, or I see that R8 or Bugatti driving down the street and wish that was mine. Sometimes I wish I could be that guy but what I have come to understand in the past couple of weeks is that I am right where I am supposed to be like it or not. There is also a section where Chopra talks about passion and he states “When you do anything with passion, you express every aspect of who you are. Passion releases all the energy you possess. At that moment you put yourself on the line, for if you throw everything you have into a pursuit, your defects and weaknesses are also exposed. Passion brings up everything.” This was revelatory to me because one of my weaknesses is giving up before I see my goals to the end. In my former life I became accustomed to failing because other pursuits were more important to me. After getting the first couple of f’s in school I started to think what’s the point?? I am always going to fail in anything I do so why even try. This kind of thinking was very destructive and led me down a path that I can say today I am grateful I traveled. Anyway on to Washington.
Washington state was awesome and I was really happy to have visited my sister and brother in law. While there we visited the space needle, took a duck boat tour, visited the experience music project ( or emp), watched Captain America and Cars 2, and played some good old video games. Here are a couple of pictures that I took while I was there.
