Active Rickey
I think I have recently discovered something about myself that should have been fairly obvious, but I had never fully realized. Being super active makes me happy. Pretty simple. The past few weeks I have been keeping myself busy with all kinds of outdoor activities and it has felt awesome. I have been snowboarding, I tried skiing, disc golfed multiple times, played basketball, played ball golf, been hitting the gym and I have even been doing interval sprinting exercises a few times week. I have also been doing quite a bit of non physical activity, or activities that keep the brain working. I have been reading a ton, taking a class, taking a test next week and exploring new job and career options. I really haven’t been wasting a ton of time at all.
I think back to the past and the happiest times in my life have always coincided with periods of super activity. Two summer ago? Non stop golf, lake trips, bike riding, camping, a little traveling, etc…it never stopped. Great summer! If the last few weeks are any indication, as I have been as active as I have been in a long time, this summer is going to be one of the best. I plan on keeping it up and as the weather becomes even better, doing as much as I can squeeze in. I am a very able-bodied person in relatively good shape and it would be a waste to not take advantage of that. It is a waste of my time to not use the perfectly working body and brain I was lucky enough to be born with. There are so many people out there less fortunate than me that are unable or too old to be out there doing stuff.
Maybe in the past I thought I was super active because I was in a good spot in life and happy. Though I really think the cause of the happiness is being active and not wasting any time. Again, not a huge revelation and this should have been fairly apparent to me. But as many of you know, I have a tendency to overlook the painfully obvious sometimes. The thing that excites me the most about this new revelation, is that my activity level is my choice. I control it and because of that, I control my level of happiness. That is a pretty huge thing to have just realized.
So, if anyone is ever doing, well, just about anything, let me know. I am interested!
Eric
Sweet. I’m game. Let’s do lots of bikin this summer. I’d like to get out in the canoe more too, that’s pretty neat. The high mountain lakes are so beautiful.
I would be game to camp on top of S. Sister on a relatively warm and calm night. If that’s legal (or maybe even if it’s not! Shh…).
Troy Smith - March 27, 2010 at 8:31 am |
I would love to camp on top of the South Sister! I’ve been reading a ton about high altitude mountaineering, and it would be fun to get a little (very little) feel what it would be like. You know, leaving out the hypothermia and frostbite.
Eric Arndt - March 27, 2010 at 9:54 am |