About Me
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I am an intense person. Not intensely serious–intense; I can be intensely serious, but I also love intensely, play intensely, work intensely, think intensely, I can be intensely happy, and intensely sad. I do everything in my life with that kind of intensity because it allows me to get everything that I can out of my experience and leave any regrets behind. For me, the meaning of life is simply to live it and make the most of the experience. Searching for more meaning than that only distracts us from what’s right in front of us.
I’m not a private person because I don’t do anything that I’m not proud of. That said, I’m not a 100% open book, and there are certain feelings and thoughts that I only share with those closest to me. Hate and spite are foreign emotions to me, and I don’t know that I’ve ever felt either. I love all living things in the sense that I respect and value them as equals, and I think that preserving all life should be the most important goal of mankind. I believe that there are very few things that are fact, and everything else is a matter of opinion; because of that, my only maxim and the only “right way” to live that I believe in is to live in a way that sets us in harmony with every other living thing. I feel most comfortable immersed in nature and in music (creating and listening), and I attempt to keep myself there as often as possible.
I thrive off of new experiences, hence this trip. The domain name that I chose (since I first left home) is rooted in a Grateful Dead song, “Mama, Mama, many worlds I’ve come since I first left home.” After a particularly adventurous day, a day that felt like I had been through every world imaginable after I first left, I heard the line for the first time and it resonated; it was the first time life had ever truly felt like a journey. I expect to feel the same way after I finish this trip and as I continue my journey.
