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 "The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning you didn't even think to ask."

~Jeff Johnson, 180° South

This movie, combined with Secret Life of Walter Mitty, have sparked a new journey, a new quest, a new adventure in me. 

Both movies are about guys who get an insuppressible wanderlust, but I don't think that is the reason for these movies. They will make you want to travel. I do no deny that, but I think that the reason they are so effective is because they teach us each that we need to find out who we are. We need to find our reason for living. There is a quest for purpose that we all embark on as passengers on this planet. A quest to make this place better. 

"Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all, but we just went for it." 

~Doug Tompkins, 180° South

Both these movies inspired me. Walter Mitty saw someone else on adventures and even imagined some of his own. I often find myself imagining a better world where I am doing things that I enjoy. Too often, like Walter Mitty, I am afraid to pursue those things that I want to do. I need to be more like Jeff Johnson and just go for those things that I want to do. The unknown will always be unknown until we embrace it and become it's friend. 

There are so many unknowns in this coming year. 

Currently, I am not dating anyone seriously. I won't lie. My thoughts of the way my future would work out always included me getting married before I left college. It may be cynical of me, but I don't see myself getting married this year. If I started dating a girl now, I would want to give myself more time to just date. I've already done the jumping-into-things thing, and it didn't work out. When I find someone, I am going to develop something deeper and make sure that we'll be able to work together more effectively. 

I'm hoping to have everything done to graduate in December. That means doing online classes and hopefully an internship this summer. I want to get a job lined out as quick as possible so that I can jump into something other than school next January. There are a few job openings that I think I seriously have a chance at filling. There are a few with Amazon, one with Diamond Comic Distributors, and others.

I only have 11 months left in this year. I am going to make the best of them that I can here in Southern Utah. After this year, who knows when I'll be back. I could be in Maryland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, or any other place in the world. I don't know where life is going to take me and where God wants me to go. I just know that I need to keep going forward. 

"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life."

~Walter Mitty, Secret Life of Walter Mitty