Micha and the Universe

So there is this really wise awesome shaman like Michigonian (as in one who originates from Michigan) girl that moved to my school this year named Micha. And from the first day of school we've been able to have these really loud aggressive conversations about society and sometimes about colors and trees and cats (DeEP stUfF). Yesterday we were supposed to be writing a paper in English using all kinds of crazy sources and numbers and creativity sucking MLA format, so whilst everyone else worked on their drone papers, Micha and I were listening to alternative music and yelling ideas at each other with our awesome teacher (shout out to Swifty Swift).

My favorite part of the conversation was when she told me about a "pep" talk she gave someone one time. It went something like (loose paraphrase), "Whenever you're feeling sad, just remember that here you are a complex roadmap of veins and arteries, with capillaries doing whatever the hell they do, and yet you still have time to have a favorite color. You. Are. Awesome.". (You could say she's the bee's knees or something)

It's so unbelievably true. Right now I'm squatting in my bed thinking and making my fingers move on this tiny iPhone keyboard all the while my liver is filtering, my brain is shooting electricity, I'm breathing, I am replicating cells, electrons are flying around everywhere, my hair is growing.

And I'm alive and I'm not even trying. We. Are. Awesome.

Just take a second to breath and soak up how VAST AND INCREDIBLE this whole thing is... .... . .. ..... You're on a tiny rock hurtling around a flaming ball of gas and you have a favorite color. How is it even possible?

The challenge or me is to no longer accept anything as mundane or ordinary, to wake up every morning and in every second afterword bathe in the complexity of how fantastic and impossible everything is. Ordinary is dead everything is new and more beautiful everyday.

From an old African proverb Yo a Lo which means "you only live once" make it count.

Yours TrUuuuLy

- Lasercat D.D.S.

Interactions

Why are we here? What are we supposed to learn from this whole thing? Everything. We're here to learn as much as we can from everyone we can. We're here to love each other and soak up the experiences that others have been through and apply them to our own lives. Without each other, we are nothing.

I don't think we realize how big of a part of ourselves is really parts of those around us. When we share knowledge, or a story we are giving another person a part of us. We're constantly grabbing on to and giving away these fragments of ourselves and we don't even notice the patchwork of experiences and perspectives we are becoming. It's comforting to know that all we are is in some way carried by not only those we love but by everyone that comes into contact with us.

A challenge I've been trying to work on is to accept everyone I come in to contact with as a teacher (directly from Eat Pray Love <3 love me some Julia Roberts) there's so much to learn and to see it's actually unfathomable but that's why we have each other, to grow from and to help grow.

Appreciate the fact that you are making some kind of impact. Accept that you matter and what you do matters. And acknowledge that everything everyone else does MATTERS. And make a conscious effort to learn something from everyone and everything. :)

This bus smells like a fart and a kid is eating an entire bag of limes.

See you later alligator

- J money

Passion

Passion is dead. At some point in time we decided that searching for what you're passionate for was too much work. We've instead settled for this perfect little cut out box of "happiness" this suburban white picket fence straight A student life, that's not a passion that's a prison. There are people in my life who are brought to tears over anything less than the perfect gilded A++++++++++. All we want to do is label everything. I swear there are percentages on everything and it's killing us it's killing our chance at passion and at happiness.

That's what I want to find pure exciting fingertip shaking passion. Wether it's as a world renowned surgeon or a hippie in a van. When is the last time you felt so excited about something you could not PHYSICALLY contain it? Thinking about it made your voice crack and no one could understand how wonderfully passionate you were. My band teacher made a perfect analogy he said we played like we had a crap sandwich in one hand and a caramel cheesecake in the other, and we go at both with the same eh attitude. That's how we go about our lives and frankly I DON'T WANT MY LIFE TO BE A CRAP SANDWICH. I want freakin Jesus quality cheesecake.

We need to find our passion (cliché comin up) because we don't know how long we have. This summer my mom was in a crazy accident were a 60 foot tree crushed her right in front of me (that's a story for later) on a perfectly normal day. And for good 20 minutes I thought my mom was dead (she's all good now). One minute she was alive and then for all I knew she was gone. How suck is that? Life ends in a second and we can either live a meh life absent of love and full of Doritos or we can suck the marrow out of every day and live it to the fullest (pretty sure part of that is from Dead Poets Society).

All I want from my life is pure unadulterated passion, a love for life. It's such a simple thing but it's so hard to break away from the norm. But if anything comes from this post I want you to feel challenged to not be satisfied with an average life. Pursue happiness with whatever heart you have and find your passion wherever it may be.

Live long and prosper
Meow and out

- Juan Keem

Wanderlust

In Need Of Adventure

Well it appears that we are in a conundrum. Particularly me, not as to say you aren't as well but I am most interested in the one I find myself in, maybe they're the same, or possibly completely different, who can say?.... .. ... anyway conundrum, a word that is so nice to say, you almost forget the meaning, classified by the Google machine as a "confusing and difficult problem or question". Which precisely describes this predicament I/we are in.

My conundrum is that I can't decide if I want to do everything or absolutely nothing. It is a confusing question because depending on your interpretation of "success", everything could be nothing or nothing could very well be everything, it's baffling. This quest (yep quest) of mine is best simplified and described as a quest to determine for myself what is everything and what is nothing, what is being and what is living. It is the most simple conundrum I've heard and is still equally perplexing.

So one may ask, "how does one go about solving such a problem?" My answer would be to think OuTsIdE the box, to separate yourself from everything you know start over, rediscover, reinvent. Your first reaction may be a scoff or possibly a "HELL YEAH", either way it's my solution and I have to say that I'm psyched (THROWBACK). Here it is.. .... . . ... . ... In three years I will go on a three month trip around the world with three of my closest friends to reevaluate life and learn from experiences in unfamiliar places where the only thing you have to worry about is living. Looking back on what I just wrote I realize how many threes there are in this plan but I've heard that three is a good number from somewhere, the bible maybe?

In summary, conundrum, problem, solution, threes, Jesus. I've never been one for doing things small, when I actually decide that a plan is worth getting off of the living room floor for I tend to follow through. Three years may seem like a ridiculous amount of time but really the Earth has been around for millions and millions of years, so settle down three years is nothing in comparison. Three years is actually the perfect amount of time to get my life together, raise the funds, plan the trip, and make this blog thing happen so that my experiences and outlooks on things can transcend myself and in some way effect (affect? I never learned and I blame it on public schooling and in some way Michelle Obama) a greater wealth of people. Which I believe is the most important thing in life, sharing yourself with others, growing and learning from as many people as possible, and finding happiness and balance. 
-Learning through life and love, 
I guess you could call that my new mantra.

Until then
-Justin 
(A.k.a Juan, Lasercat, J-money, JKim, J-dolla, J-$) 
하자 롤 항문 - (Korean for " Lets Roll Butthole)