My life is a cool drink of water right now. Everything is going right. So very right. Summer is afoot. The weather is great. I got back from Mexico a week ago. I am tan and I look hot as hell. I am in love. I bike all the time and biking makes me very happy and feel good about myself. I will be attending the School of Journalism at the University of Regina in the fall. I have been spending time with my friends socially and plan on doing lots of such things this summer. I started working out a few days ago and hope to continue throughout summer. I hope to get much more fit by the end of summer.
That is my list of awesome things. I think I should probably let loose more often, as summer is best served with a smattering of nights you remember as a blurry(but enjoyably indulgent) haze, but aside from that, I am content. Living a few km's from downtown hasn't been a hindrance since winter ended, and I feel much more connected to the lifeblood of the city by knowing I'm a 20-minute bike ride from most of the things I enjoy doing.
I get really upset by selfish things that I see happening in the city and in the country, but I'm also starting to come to grips with it. I get into much to heated arguments sometimes, about government, about proportional representation, about urban sprawl, etc. We do not live in a perfect democratic society and sometimes things happen that we are morally opposed to. Sometimes our tax dollars go towards those negative things. Life is not perfect. But informed citizens have an obligation to make their opinions heard and to argue for what they believe in. There is so much information in the world that if one has a strong mental grasp of issues that others do not, it is beneficial to try to inform those people.
That is why I want to become a journalist. I want to present important things to people. I want to inform. My desires are likely impossible(I would like to engage all citizens) but that is actually what I want. I have been getting far too serious lately, and not as fun. As you can tell by my rant. Hence why I need to go out more. I think about serious issues too much and it's making me less fun to be around. So this summer needs to involve some reckless endangerment.
Let the games begin!
