Live To Play.

Posted by TheZimp on Mar 25, 2009 in Blog | 1 comment

This summer is going to be big. It’s going to be different. It’s going to be something I’ve never experienced before. To tell you the truth, it’s scary. I’m about to make the biggest mistake of my life. Okay, maybe it’s not a mistake. I don’t believe in mistakes, I believe we run into things that challenge us and force us to grow. I’m not prone to making big mistakes. See, my whole life I’ve been conditioned to avoid mistakes. At school, mistakes are bad, mistakes are punishable by having to repeat a grade, or the loss of your parents’ pride in you. Social conditioning has taught us that if there’s one thing to fear more than anything else, it’s mistakes and failures. How does it feel to be on the cusp of making one of the biggest “mistakes” you could ever make? Well, it feels scary. It agitates me. It keeps me up at night. In my position now, making the decision I’m making now should be the last thing I should consider… but I’m doing it anyway. Why? Because if we keep holding ourselves back we’ll never jump. If we keep waiting for the world to hand us something we’ll wait forever. Because adventure is one mistake away.