So I've been feeling blah. January 2009 has been one of the most tumultous months of my as-yet young life, and despite all the stress and excitement (mostly of the negative kind) I can't help but feel as though my life has turned grey. I don't study enough, but I don't seem to do anything else with myself. I'm tired. I'm sick of cafeteria food. I see people less than I would like. When I go out part of me observes and I wonder what the point of going out is. I lack discipline, and only my unwavering commitment to go skiing every single day (barring deceitful plots involving alleged food poisoning, but we will get to that at a later date) seems to be keeping me from becoming an absolute vegetable. When I look back on this month, there are few things that I will remember down the line (at least, those that I would want to).
Here I am - young, unencumbered and fortunate, and yet my life is shades of gray. It doesn't help that Montreal is shades of gray these days. To combat this horrible lethargy, I've made a decision:
I will have an adventure every day of February.
This seems at first glance like a forced resolution because the thing about adventures is that they can't be planned. They just happen. I have a few sunlit days hidden away in my eternal internal memory - campfire guitar dylan songs, omelette cuddlefests, climbing sessions, beautiful drunken ebullience, night bikerides, deep conversations, mornings on mountains - and none of them were necessarily intentional. The clarifier here is that by adventures I don't mean crazy things or life changing moments. Nothing will be forced - for instance, I won't accept my friend's offer to hitchhike through the deep south to Mardi Gras over reading week, although I look forward to his stories. I mean memorable experiences, things that make it worthwhile to live. Small things - any little teeny thing out of the ordinary. I've always wanted to spend a day not speaking, for example, and I want to go hang out in Old Port or visit used book stores, go skating in the middle of the night, see all the free film screenings I've been meaning to go to (I have three next week alone). I'll post my adventure every day, I hope.
Do you have 7 minutes 35 seconds? If so, this is more worth it than any other way to spend 7 minutes and 35 seconds that doesn't involve removing apparel:
