Monday, January 28, 2013
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Friday, January 25, 2013
When it All Ends
So I found out my return date today. My travel agent booked my ticket last night, and it is confirmed that I will leave Thailand on July 17th at 7:35 a.m. I'll fly to Tokyo from there where I will stay for an hour and a half, until I head out again for Calgary and should arrive back in the Motherland at 11:40 (not sure which time zone though...)
No way!! I'm just looking at my itinerary now, and realized I'll be taking an Airbus A380 back home, A double-decker plane! That's pretty cool.
There ya have it! Go ahead and start planning all my welcome home parties now! :P
Silly Me...
Heeey guys, not sure if you remember me or not, but I'm back! And I actually have something to write this time, not just linking to my youtube page (which btw has a few new videos up in the past week or two if you wanna check em out! ColeinThailandRYE ). But first, read this, might as well while you're here. :)
So in my own humble opinion, which may differ drastically from yours and seem outright bonkers, but it is mine nonetheless, I feel that I am (or at least have some tendencies to be) fairly mature. Simply living the life I have, experiencing what I have, and very importantly, being brought up and raised with the values and morals that I have, has led me to be who I am today. I believe that those circumstances have so far culminated to me having a decent head on my shoulders and being able to act my age from time to time. However, just today, quite unexpectedly and quite abruptly, I realized something. In my case, maturity has occasionally flashed upon me, and maybe at one point I can act as if I'm say, 25, for example. Despite this, I'm still 18... I have still only lived through a meagre blip in my life (or so I hope!) and therefore have an equivalent level of life experience. I never assumed I was all-knowing or anything, but I sure did let my bits of maturity blind me from this to a fuller extent.
So acting 25 may be great and all from time to time, but then certain situations will come up, where I still lack the 7 years of practical examples and lessons to show me right and wrong, left and right, North and South. This can be a very tricky place to find yourself, when you are totally clueless as to how you should handle some circumstances, and it certainly knocked me off my little bit of a high horse here.
Maybe I'm not quite all I figured I was after all. Maybe my mom actually is right sometimes. Heck, maybe even my teachers are right occasionally. Who am I say to say I know anything right now? So I've lived through 12 years of school so far, okay great, as has nearly every other person my age. So why should I presume, especially before trying to understand their perspective, that I am any more "right" than they are? Which I must regretfully say, I can definitely be found guilty of. Now that sure doesn't seem too mature of me anymore... Sure, I have now acknowledged this, but it still means jack-all until I do something about it. I think I gotta just stop pretending I'm all high and mighty sometimes, and take a bit of a reality check. I'm still just a little spring chick over here. I've got a heck of a ways to go before I earn my right to think that I know what life is all about.
Trust me when I say this, the two values, maturity and life experience, do NOT have to go hand in hand. I sure found that out first hand. As self-degrading as this may sound, I'm not upset or nothing about this. I honestly found it slightly amusing, and it did give me a bit of a boot in the ass, which I'm sure hoping I can learn from and do something about.
Voila a little bit more insight into whats going inside my jumbled nutshell of a head, I'm actually quite surprised I even managed to spit out some vaguely comprehensible words about what's going on up there. Just letting the brain juices flow is all. :)
Much Love,
William Cole
So in my own humble opinion, which may differ drastically from yours and seem outright bonkers, but it is mine nonetheless, I feel that I am (or at least have some tendencies to be) fairly mature. Simply living the life I have, experiencing what I have, and very importantly, being brought up and raised with the values and morals that I have, has led me to be who I am today. I believe that those circumstances have so far culminated to me having a decent head on my shoulders and being able to act my age from time to time. However, just today, quite unexpectedly and quite abruptly, I realized something. In my case, maturity has occasionally flashed upon me, and maybe at one point I can act as if I'm say, 25, for example. Despite this, I'm still 18... I have still only lived through a meagre blip in my life (or so I hope!) and therefore have an equivalent level of life experience. I never assumed I was all-knowing or anything, but I sure did let my bits of maturity blind me from this to a fuller extent.
So acting 25 may be great and all from time to time, but then certain situations will come up, where I still lack the 7 years of practical examples and lessons to show me right and wrong, left and right, North and South. This can be a very tricky place to find yourself, when you are totally clueless as to how you should handle some circumstances, and it certainly knocked me off my little bit of a high horse here.
Maybe I'm not quite all I figured I was after all. Maybe my mom actually is right sometimes. Heck, maybe even my teachers are right occasionally. Who am I say to say I know anything right now? So I've lived through 12 years of school so far, okay great, as has nearly every other person my age. So why should I presume, especially before trying to understand their perspective, that I am any more "right" than they are? Which I must regretfully say, I can definitely be found guilty of. Now that sure doesn't seem too mature of me anymore... Sure, I have now acknowledged this, but it still means jack-all until I do something about it. I think I gotta just stop pretending I'm all high and mighty sometimes, and take a bit of a reality check. I'm still just a little spring chick over here. I've got a heck of a ways to go before I earn my right to think that I know what life is all about.
Trust me when I say this, the two values, maturity and life experience, do NOT have to go hand in hand. I sure found that out first hand. As self-degrading as this may sound, I'm not upset or nothing about this. I honestly found it slightly amusing, and it did give me a bit of a boot in the ass, which I'm sure hoping I can learn from and do something about.
Voila a little bit more insight into whats going inside my jumbled nutshell of a head, I'm actually quite surprised I even managed to spit out some vaguely comprehensible words about what's going on up there. Just letting the brain juices flow is all. :)
Much Love,
William Cole
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Changes are Coming
Alrighty, I recently got a few more videos uploaded to my youtube channel, so you should go and check them out. I think I'm going to kind of be straying off more in that direction moving forward, because I already have to write 2 big reports every month for my host and sponsor clubs, and I have a journal, and I have quarterly reports to do as well, so it gets to be a heck of a lot of writing. I'll still put up the occasional post, and try to put the links to my videos on here periodically, but you'll likely be seeing more videos than written posts in the future.
Here's the link to my channel, check it out!
"Cole In Thailand RYE" Youtube Link
Here's the link to my channel, check it out!
"Cole In Thailand RYE" Youtube Link
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