Paradise
I’m on an airplane right now. I just finished playing The Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Switch for nearly two hours. Now, I’m sitting here, next to my beautiful girlfriend while typing this up and drinking some chamomile tea. Even though it’s only a little longer than a five hour flight, I can’t help but feel super antsy and feel like there’s something that I need to do. That’s something that I’m really going to focus on during this trip.
CJ and I are going to the Big Island for a week and today is my birthday. 20 Years. I’m a little mixed on turning 20. On one side of things, it’s insane that I’m this old already. Real life is starting to kick in little by little. On the other side, I’m really not that old at all and that is extremely exciting to me. I have yet to even REALLY start my life and I think that taking a trip today is symbolic of that. This is the first ‘big’ trip that I’m actually able to pay for for myself. Also, I realize how much of the world I’ve yet to see and, in turn, how much of life I have yet to experience. That’s exciting and being able to do all of this with my best friend makes things so much better.
Looking back on it, I learned a lot and did a lot of different things at 19. First, I learned not to take school so seriously. I spent the majority of my school years trying to earn the perfect grades. I did this so that I could eventually end up with high school and college scholarships. Now that I’m in my second year of college, I’ve come to learn that there really is no use in ‘wasting’ my prime years in worrying about whether I end up with an A or a C. When it comes down to it, those grades aren’t going to matter much to me when it is all said and done. However, there’s a fine line with that idea. It’s not that I don’t care at all. I do. But taking school a little less seriously was probably one of the best decisions that I made all of last year. I realized that if I really put in genuine effort, I wouldn’t have to worry as much because I could trust that my efforts would be enough to get the job done. Trust yourself in what you do. As long as you know you are putting in the work and doing what is necessary to succeed, you won’t have to worry so much.
Building off of that, it’s okay to fail. I’m not saying be happy with failure, but when you decide to think about why something did not go according to plan, that ‘failure’ will benefit you in the long run. When something goes wrong, don’t just turn in the towel. That’s the easy part. Get back to the planning board and figure out what’s working and what isn’t.
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I never did finish writing that piece. I was way too excited to be traveling with my girl. To say the least, that trip was amazing. It was honestly such a smart decision to take a week away from everything to kick off the new year. We won’t get way too corny, but I will say that it’s definitely a blessing to be able to start seeing the world with my best friend and better half.
This video and post is about a month over due because as soon as I got back, we hit the ground running. Since this trip, I’ve made some huge changes to my life, hopefully I’ll get to share that soon. For now, enjoy the video. Comment here or on the video what you guys think, subscribe, and today and every day, go do more of what you love.
-Jsquared
@_J.Squared
@InTheLabLifestyle