time warping

sorry for posting sentimental crap like this...

...but it's just so strange how drastically life can change over the course of one year.

...I was thinking of where I was/who I Was/ who I was around/ what I was doing/ watching/ listening to/ playing/ looked like/ was like/ were I was living...etc etc and it's crazy how much changes in such a small amount of time.


Biggest changes from this time last year anyone?

 

Yes, life does change drastically.

My life hasn't changed way too much over the last year. It has changed drastically over the last two years though... and that is simply because I have rather stabilized both myself and my existence during the last year. It feels good. My life will change somewhat in a couple of months though when I go to Canada for the summer.

 

where are you going in Canada?

 

Everywhere! Gonna work as a highway inspector with some family friends and travel all over the place. I hear that we're gonna hit up a lot of reservations. I'm excited.

 

That's awesome, I'm stoked for you. there sooooo many beautiful places.

Reservations can be beautiful too- just so very sad a lot of the time.

 

Yeah, hopefully I'll get enough free time to just bum around a bit wherever I go.

I can handle sadness really well.

Enough about me, what has changed in your life?

 

I resonate with this rhythm.
Many people are discussing this.
2008.

A.D. of course.

 

um...well. Must confess what sparked the thread was thinking of a friend of mine who was a bit of a mentor and taught me how to play rag time and whatnot who died this year. It never really seemed real until I came back to the city that I knew him from. It's ok though, it's life. Just weird. Nice to remember.


Other then that. live in a new place with new people, done some loveley traveling, been learning more circus arts and performing a lot more...I've been listening to a lot of really cheesy early 60's late 50's pop I didn't used to Things are pretty good.

 

no! I want to hear about what was going on with you specifically 2008BCE

 

moved back to cali, cut the dreads, opening up a recording studio

I feel like an entirely different person.

recently been making some amazing revelations ... and am ecstatic.
bliss...

 

I'm sorry about your friend, yet I am glad that things are going pretty good. Life is funny like that, so capricious. You keep on rockin' in that free world Alex, you'll do just fine

 

I try!

 

If you want to know the truth, the only changes in my life, are that I am friends with 2 less people now.

 

I cant wait to see you tomorrow Alex. Its going to be a good day.

 

minimalization
and the quest for Dog

 

WOW
What about you wastingthedawn? What changes have happened in your life?

Myself?

I returned from my first major adventure in February. I spent an entire year overseas away from my family and friends, mostly in poverty, while sick. I experienced some horrible lows, and used these experiences to reinforce my strength and resolution, and as a result had some amazing experiences. The best was living in a shack in a village in Scotland, in a valley surrounded by mountains, in the middle of winter. I had been fairly physically ill for the past few years before I moved to the UK, and the freedom of being on the road gave me a kind of temporary cure. It was amazing to actually have feelings of "happiness" and experience "fun". I felt really emotionally connected to people, and confident. I met people that I could actually stand to be around for long periods of time. I learned to jump into all kinds of situations head first and fearlessly, and I still do this now.

I had to return home in February because my health was quite poor at this point. I had tried everything over the past four years to figure out the problem and I was finally sent to an Immunologist. I was diagnosed with "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" and put on a restricted diet. This sucked. Not being able to eat anything, and as a result being sensitive to all kind of chemicals and smells, sucked. It still sucks. My life is so restricted, and I am still tired all the time...but at the same time avoiding the foods I am intolerant to has lent me so much more energy, and a much clearer mind. I am far closer to living a normal life than I have been in years. Not only do I feel better, but I am doing things like meeting up with old friends, enrolling in university, working my butt off at my job, moving out of home, walking, educating myself, pushing myself to the limit, despite my still complete lack of energy. I am looking to travel again, but with more money and a new attitude. I have had to face up to the fact that life is too short for sitting around and waiting for myself to get better.

So essentially, this year has sucked ass, but has taught me to be less of a whiney bitch and get on with things.

 

My best friend died, so my life has been, while apparently the same, actually very different. Very very different.

 

That sounds awesome!

Enjoy

 

I got carried a way a bit. I am tired.

 

From last year to now.

John and I were sort of in a weird break. I was living in Ottawa, going to school and very confused about what I wanted to do with myself. Now I live in PA, with John, we moved into a townhouse and we're going to have a baby , we also have a crazy cat. I've changed so much in this past year, my life is entirely different and I feel way different myself.