Random Thoughts:

As a child we are all thrown into opportunities, learning many new things, from talking, walking, swimming, ridding a bike, running, hiking… and the list goes on and on.

As we age, those awesome “learning something new” opportunities start to dry up like spilled kool-aid on black pavement on a hot summer day.  The things we do know lose the shock value as we have performed them over and over (diminishing returns).  We masses in the middle (click here to read about my middle class life cycle) live a somewhat boring, repeating cycle of activity (especially during the working days of the week).  New adventures become more scarce and we fall towards an unknown end, wasting our youth and ambition to meet some ultimate goal at that end (perhaps retirement, heaven, or whatever).

So what are we to do?

• Path1:  Should we live it up today, borrowing and spending all our money and skipping work only to end up out in the streets homeless with debt in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars?  (NO)
• Path2: Should we live a somewhat slower lifestyle by striving for a more balanced approach?  This is a good solution because you get a little of everything…  financial security, some new experiences etc…  This is my current path. (MAYBE)
• Path3: Or should we forget about the end goal and realize that it doesn’t really matter and we should try to expanding and enjoy our life to the fullest but at the same time realize that having money can open up more doors to enjoy life?  That having money can enable us to do things like traveling to distant locations and enable use to experiencing things that we never though we’d be able to see or experience? (MAYBE)

I think I would like to have a balanced lifestyle as in Path2, but I would also like to incorporate some of the elements in Path3, which would turn my balanced lifestyle to more of an aggressive balanced lifestyle.

Enough on the discussion of lifestyles, on to actions!  Until I have the finances to enjoy more new experiences, I intend on “Trying Something New” by taking advantage of all the great free stuff online!

I have to admit, I’ve already been doing this by reading blogs which I find very enjoyable!  Reading blogs convinced me to start my own blog enabling me to telling my own story and share my thoughts.  I’m planning on expanding further into online experiences (perhaps a short podcast for next Saturday?  and some day a video).

So this entire article leads up to the following sentence.  I going to use my Saturday article posts to experiment and share more of my raw thoughts and experiences. I’ve done this a bit in the past with my comic series, but that was too limiting (although I still want to post a comic at least once a month).

Are you planning on researching, learning or experiencing something new soon?

-MR

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