Journal Of A Wandering Man

Anonymous asked: Why do you ignore people!!!!!

I’m not good with the whole interaction with other humans.  My bad.

We’re Going To Be On The Radio

pwktripping:

We are doing a interview with a local radio station today.  Be excited for us.  Do it!  Anyway we will be recording the interview and posting the best bits over the next few days so that you can here what we have to say about things.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Don’t accept dogma from strangers.

The next time someone tries to tell you how to live your life, do humanity a favor and tell them to fuck off.  Trust me, it feels good.

Anonymous asked: Is your life everything you hoped it would be?

The problem with your question is that life is fluid.  It’s constantly changing, and with it, so are we.

Is my life everything that 12 year old me hoped it would be? No, and thank god for that.  12 year old me would have had me go on a mormon mission, get married right after, and i’d probably have 2-3 kids by now.  24 year old me knows that i’m much happier where i’m at right now, then if I had gone down that path.

A couple of years ago I had a girlfriend who had somehow convinced me that the only thing I wanted out of life was to spend it with her. Long story short, shit happens, it hurt, but shit hurts sometimes.  You learn to deal with it, which is what I did.

Six months ago if you had told me i’d be in a long distance relationship right now, I would have called you a liar.  Here I am dating someone in another state, and couldn’t be happier about it.  Life is weird.

At the end of the day all you can do is ask yourself, “what do I not like about my life? and if the same thing keeps coming up, change it.  If you are going to believe in anything, believe in your own ability to live the life you want, it’s out there, just go find it.

I’ll quit smoking the old fashioned way, by dying.

For just about every year since I started smoking cigarettes i’ve made a new years resolution to quit, and have been unsuccessful.  I thought long and hard about attempting the impossible and adding to the grotesque amounts of shame and self loathing stacked within my brain piece, and decided against it.  Hell, I enjoy cigarettes.  I’ve enjoyed every single cigarette i’ve ever smoked, which is more than I can say about the days of my life i’ve experienced thus far.  Being young and arrogant, I know older Charles will regret it, which brings me to my next point,  2012 New Year’s resolutions;

(in no particular order)

1. Offend someone everyday.  I’m not setting out to cause offense through pure obscenity or vulgarity, but by getting people out of their comfort zones.  If you believe your train of thought is the right one, i’m after you…so watch out!

2. Listen to more of the blues.  This one is pretty self explanatory.

3. Hike from mexico to canada.  In April of this year I will set off on a 6 month journey of hiking the continental divide trail with nothing but the gear I can carry and a good friend for company.  This will be a subject I write about pretty often.

4. Read 50 books.  Every year I set out with a goal to read 50 books.  I usually end up somewhere between 35 and 40, and I never really feel too bad about not fully reaching my goal, because there is always next year.

5. Play music as often as possible.  I want to share my music with as many people as possible this year, so if i’m ever with you and you want to hear me play a song, just ask. I don’t want to be that douchebag who’s playing his john mayer/jack johnson covers anytime there is a guitar and an extra pair of ears present.  I want to play music for people who want to hear it.

6. Be (more) Spontaneous. People who already know me would consider me spontaneous, but I don’t think i’m quite where I want to be yet.

7. Start a blog, and update it regularly.  Well here we are, step one of this resolution is complete, now I’ve just got to keep it up.

8. Do more drugs.  Psychedelic drugs.

9. Write more letters, send less texts. Talk to more strangers, listen to their stories and if they are so inclined, share my story with them.

10. Don’t die.  This is kind of out of my control, but I really seem to enjoy this existence, and would like to make it to experience many more overrated new years eve’s.  They are wonderfully tragic in the way they always disappoint but leave you wanting more.

In relation to numbers 1, 5, and 6, I spoke to a gentleman at the 7-11 by my house today and he told me there was an open mic at a bar down the road.  So i’m off to play some tunes, hopefully someone gets offended.

Cheers,

Charles