It’s been a big week at work because of the new lifeteen.com being up. My days are brimming with information: ideas, books, movies, video games, etc. In a given day, I crawl through 1000 pages of information. It’s overwhelming! It’s such a contrast to come home and to crawl into a tent, a home not much different than humans slept in 5,000 years ago.
I don’t want to overdue this caveman theme, but I can’t help talking about it. When you go to bed out in the open, you cannot help but aware of your environment: sounds, smells, and dangers. When you sleep in the protection of your locked home, your thoughts are consumed with other things like work, money, and family. But when you are outside under the stars, you don’t care about that stuff.
I started this journal six years ago because it seemed liked something fun to do. I hoped that maybe I could make friends with like-minded people who stumbled onto the site. It’s an interesting way to experience the passing of time through college and big life decisions. Plus, it was a way for this farm boy from the woods to announce to the world that I had arrived. Hello world!
Then I went on The Real World and everything changed. The show was edited to make it more entertaining, but in doing so, a lot of my story was left out. I did not want people to misunderstand who I am, so this journal helped me tell the other side of the story, the other side of me.
Since the show, I’ve met tens of thousands of people, and this website helped us stay in touch. I’d write their name in the “Big Ups” list so they know I was thinking about them. And any random friend could bookmark this page if they ever wanted to catch up on my adventures.
Although this site has been an interesting way to keep in touch with friends, deep down I feel like a boring person. It is difficult to continue a great story once the edited TV show is over and it’s time to get back to my life. I traveled the world and did great things, but it didn’t seem like a worthy sequel to “The Real World.” As the years passed, I felt better about myself and what I was doing. My life does not have to be entertaining for it to be valuable.
Now that my 15 minutes of fame is over, this journal has become rather boring. When I am not working on lifeteen.com, I am traveling around the country to give talks. That’s been my schedule for three years. I’ve consciously removed all drama from my life so that I can be creative and productive.
My life is deliciously rewarding, but it doesn’t make for good storytelling. Even if something exciting does happen, I am not patient enough to sit here and type out the whole story; there are better things to do.
So six years after I started this website, I am content with this journal being a play-by-play analysis of the projects in my life. Having said that, I need to go do something else.
It’s Presidents’ Day, and I did not know if the City of Mesa was going to be picking up trash this morning. Every time I heard a truck engine, I’d spring awake and listen to see if it was the grunt and grind of the garbage truck. What an odd way to wake up.
Tonight’s Mass was absolutely wonderful. I am just in awe of God. I can’t imagine any of the 1900 people at Mass can ever forget tonight. Padre Carlos closed Mass with exposition of the Eucharist. It was so powerful. So powerful. There was harmony and passion in that room that I cannot explain. Wonderful!
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