Vissable Views

Archive for January, 2011

I am and will always be a bit of a nomad.  I have changed houses at least twenty times and like to go on big trips.  If money wasn’t an issue, I might make a ‘base’ in Sweden, a base in New Zealand, and a semi-base in my home valley in Utah.  The semi-base would be housed by one of my two best friends, because one of them stinks and needs his own house and no one will take him, and one of them has a giant fish tank that is forbidden by all the rental contracts.  Sweden has a certain air of sophistication that I like, and New Zealand is the ‘hitchhiker capital of the world’.  I don’t ever want to anchor down.  I already live out of suitcases and have a job that lets me roam so I don’t have to stay at a steady address.  I get stir crazy.  Being able to live wherever would be awesome.

I don’t know if I would be a specific super hero.  Super villain maybe.  Simply by tweaking a few things in their tactics and the world is very take-over-able.  I’ve never really been a ‘hero’ person.  My super power would be to manipulate and freeze time and humanity temporarily.  That way, I could have more time than everyone else to get things done, which is extremely useful.  I could use that time to go into tryouts for violin concerts, freeze time, practice exactly what they wanted right there for years if I needed to, unfreeze time, and perform stellar things for them. There are other things you could do with frozen time, but like I said, I’m a bit of a villain person, not a hero, so it is probably not a good idea to discuss them.

When I turned two, I was given a big, fluffy gray teddy bear that was about as big as I was at the time.  He had a colorful red and green scarf on, and stern black eyes and a black nose on a cranky big face.  I named him Christmas Bear.  I still have him, and he stares at me all day while I work.  His scarf fell off and I made him a new one out of beige yarn that I had for a different project.  When Toy Story came out, I watched it and was kinda traumatized.  I went upstairs to my room an promised Christmas Bear and two other teddies I had that I would never leave them and I would take them to college with me.  I never went to college, but my tribe of three teddies has gone with me cross country a few times.  I don’t think my life would be the same if I hadn’t gotten Christmas Bear for Christmas when I was two.

All things considered, I am a fairly eclectic and eccentric person. I have a lot of interests and I like to do a lot of very different things. I love Germany, with an intense passion, and I have a steadily developing interest in all kinds of different writing. I don’t know who I am enough to discourse on it very long but I can say this. I know what I am not and I am not unfulfilled. I live a very engaging lifestyle and I certainly have a lot of activities that take up a lot of my waking hours. In many ways I don’t have much of a life purpose of any kind of life direction. But I don’t really think that’s a bad thing.  I find that, like most things, life gets better with time. For now I am content with living a delightfully packed existence and I don’t really have any plans to change that.