New York

I love New York.  I miss New York.  I want to be in New York right now.  But when I'm there I only look forward to getting away.

xiv. Shotgun a beer

xiv. Shotgun a beer - officially checked off the 22 before 23 list.

Just when you think life cannot get any better - it does.  You find yourself on a Phnom Penh rooftop with people from all over the world.  You find yourself shotgunning beers with your bosses.  You find yourself talking, laughing, listening, drinking, and drinking some more.  You find yourself seeing your friends and making new ones.

The Path

"I was walking in Central Park earlier today and I started going through a wooded forestry area. When I was walking around I eventually stumbled upon this dirt path and I started thinking about how maybe it's this old path no one walks on anymore and it will lead to an area of Central Park that people don't know about or have forgotten about. No sooner that I stopped thinking some guy in neon yellow shorts comes running down the path kicking up dirt.

I then realized how this is actually a really profound thought. Because obviously this isn't a "new" path, it's a path and in order for something to be a path it has to be walked on and it has to be walked by a good amount of people otherwise it isn't a path.

So why did I think this was a forgotten or old path?

Then I started thinking this is what's wrong with college and how people set us up for success. They make you think there's this path and some how that path is good and the only path you should take and even though everyone uses that path it's still good because it leads to success. But that's silly. Shouldn't we just make a new path? And if you make a new path then there isn't any 'path' to judge it on so technically you can make it go wherever you want. Right?

So who is to say your path is starting off wrong. Any new path is better than an old path because it doesn't have an end. So it's unpredictable. So no one can tell anyone their path is wrong or bad until the end in which someone will have or at least think there life path was better."



These are the words of a good friend of mine, who seems to have stumbled upon it.  'It' being that thing we know, that thing we feel comfortable with -- whatever that thing is that let's us know it will all be okay, and he seems to have found it without even looking.

#Cambodmia

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22 Before 23

On the night of my birthday, which was this past Monday, I finally wrote my list.  I turned 22 this year, and for the past few years I kept saying I would write my _ _ Before _ _ list, but never did.  But this is the year people!  This year I did it and am determined to check off as many things as possible.

I'm not going to beat myself up about it.  Like, if I don't get everything I'm sure I'll be bummed, but life goes on.  With that said, that doesn't mean I'm not going to give it my all.  And so I feel like I should document these things, and I'm sure I will with Iphone photos, videos, disposable cameras, and my memory (does memory count?), but then I remembered I have a blog.  People start blogs to document things.  So what better way to document my 22 Before 23 list than with this bad boy!?  That's right, there isn't a better way.  So here it is.

22 Before 23
i. Go to Montana
ii. Road trip
iii. Throw a party
iv. Photo portraits of the grandmothers
v. Music festival
vi. Camping
vii. Tattoo number two
viii. Top of the Empire State Building
ix. Montauk
x. Give a stranger a gift
xi. Philly
xii. Get an apartment
xiii. Five Leaves with Gina
xiv. Shotgun a beer
xv. Slow shutter speed photos with sparklers
xvi. Visit a new state
xvii. Snowboard again
xviii. Catch a firefly
xix. Sleep under the stars
xx. Sunrise
xxi. Drive a car that isn't the Admiral's
xxii. Skydive (not in Long Island)

(Photo taken at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Mia Eve, aka the day before my birthday)