About Me
I always feel a little pretentious writing about myself in the third person so I think I’ll just go first person on this one:
I’m a student of life, I write novels and I run constantly. I studied anthropology and art history as an undergrad and molecular biology as a grad student.
I love video games, soccer, hockey and mixed martial arts. I’ve played baseball my entire life. I enjoy snowboarding immensely and I absolutely love jumping out of airplanes and off of high things with nothing but ballistic nylon holding me in the here and now.
I don’t quite know what I want out of life except to say that happiness is the deciding factor; if it makes you happy do it. Or as my favorite professional surfer says:
“Do it ’cause it’s fun or don’t do it.”
Thank you Shane Dorian.
I guess I could always round this out with a dozen or so more quotes that really make people get me.
I’m not going to do that.
I’ll say this though, I’m just like everyone else. I’m the summation of a lifetime spent wondering and experiencing, traveling and staying put. I’ve pulled up, and put down roots at various times and I’m never afraid to try something new.
I like change, it reminds me that I’m still alive.
I have never feared death, but I’m not exactly rushing toward it either – it’s just another journey.
I’ve lived all over the world, courtesy of the United States Army. Europe, South and Central America, various bases all over North America: It was, without a doubt, the best way I can think of to grow up.
I firmly believe that life should be about those amazing moments that are of such startling intensity that you find yourself barely able to breathe; your mind whirling in a thousand different directions.
If you’re lucky enough to find a person that can make you feel like that, grab on and don’t you ever let go: that’s what a soulmate is.
sigh… I firmly agree. lovely blog : )
Thank you!
I’m just going to take a wild guess and say you probably live in California. Being from the New York City region myself, I can say I wish I was as laid back as you are, but I ain’t.
Haha pretty close guess, the first place I lived in the states was San Diego, you can take the kid out of Cali but you can never take the Cali out of the kid!
I just re-read your about. I’ve never jumped out of a plane, but it’s been a life long aspiration. I can imagine it’s pulse pounding pure adrenaline.
And while you mention you like surfing, you don’t mention extreme skiing or snowboarding one way or the other. Wanted to mention I recently put up a post called Why I Love Warren Miller. You’d probably like it.
Oh yeah, thanks for “liking” my post ‘I am not cool.’
I actually do snowboard, just not enough, I wrote a post a while back talking about all of the ridiculous things I do for adrenaline in which I mentioned snowboarding. I’ll definitely check out the post you mentioned! Thanks for stopping by
No ‘contact me’ link? OK, I’ll stick it here. Remember talking about intensity and not wanting to settle?
BAM! There it is:
http://www.mikethemasterdater.com/soulmate/how-to-have-the-perfect-relationship/#more-1942
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That’s an interesting blog post for sure, good ideas (some bad spelling though, and that drives me nuts) and I definitely remember the conversation – my life is still an adrenaline-fueled thrill-ride but as I grow older and bolder I continue to seek crazier ‘sports’ to try out: some things never change I guess.
Also, I added a contact page haha