Just breathe …
"One thousand and one"
Just breathe …
"One thousand and two"
Keep breathing …
"One thousand and three"
*five hours later*
"One million, two hundred and thirty five thousand"
What a weekend.
I’ve been reading a bunch of survival handbooks. I’d like to think that if there were ever a time in my life where I’m stranded, in an emergency I’d have enough common sense to get myself out of sticky situations. It’s incredibly the 1001 uses of a toothpick, or the 21 ways to boil water without water.
Of course I’m kidding, but it’s one of those, "Oh hey, I would never thought of that! Great idea!".
One of the neatest things so far that <a href=http://www.amazon.com/SAS-Survival-Handbook-Survive-Climate/dp/0060578793/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-7455604-3041721?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183956090&sr=8-1>this book</a> has said is that no matter where we are in life, we always come up with our very own survival techniques. Whether it’s at work, at home or stuck in traffic. It also said something that I found interesting is that alot of the things we learn and grow from, are mistakes we’ve made in the past. Starting a fire requires patience and if you rush it you just waste time in the long run.
Learning from your mistakes. Knowledge is power. The will to live governs every being, from pack rat to elephant.
It’s true too. I found myself in a situation that normally, I would have freaked out, hyperventilated, freaked out, the whole nine yards. However, I’ve been put into this particular situation before, sort of, time and time again. I realized that I couldn’t tackle this issue if I just bear hugged it all at once and wrestled it too the ground. From experience I knew that I had to stop. Breathe. Count to whatever number I could get to, pick apart the situation, break it up into easily manageable pieces. By the time I realized it, I had already defused the situation, regrouped my thoughts and had a game plan.
Knowledge is power.
Learning from my mistakes.
It’s a good book, and although I’m only halfway through, it’s already taught me to try to analyze every situation. Think rationally, get a gameplan and proceed with caution.
Great book.
Of course, if your ever stranded, need 1001 ways for a use of a toothpick, it’s a great book as well 
This weekend believe it or not was really productive. I found an apartment, gave them my deposit and application fee and now I’m just waiting to see if everything goes through okay. We’ll see, I have no doubts, but it would be nice to get a new place before I go on my vacation. It would be a whole world lifted off my shoulders. I setup my move-in date to be July 29th. That gives me a week almost exactly to move all of my things out of this place and over to the new one.
It’s in Cherry Creek. Before you ohhh and awwww, it’s in the ghetto. However, before you say, oh ok, it’s really close to a police station, the area isn’t THAT bad, and it’s also a gated community. It’s a pretty nice place and it’s got a nice pond/lake out front and it’s almost like one big motel/hotel but 3 levels high. I won’t have a patio, but inside is the biggest I found for the price. On a scale of 1-10, My current place is probably a 9, this new place is probably a 7. It’s in a world of it’s own, I suppose I’ll have to take pictures to show everybody.
I’m excited. I’d be a fool to say that I’m not scared. I’ve been writing alot lately how I wished the next 6 months would fly by, but I retract that statement because it is flying by and it’s going by to fast!
Like I said, I’m scared. Just because it’s an unknown to me. Although I’ve prepared myself with an infinite amount of knowledge, and I’ve also gained alot of information from my peers, so I think everything will be okay.
I suppose I’m anxious and excited because a new chapter in my life will be starting, and an old chapter will be ending.
No matter how many times I say this, it’s amazing to see how diffrent each year is. Even more so it’s amazing how diffrent every 3 months are, and even 6 months. So many changes.
Some for the good. Some for the bad. I’m confidant that life for me is headed in the right direction.
I just need to keep my head on straight and remember to breathe.
To use my urban jungle survival tactics that I’ve perfected over the past few years.
Until tommorow,
night all.
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