How Do You Want to Live?
I've recently been doing a lot of thinking. Mostly about what I want to DO with my life, how I want to spend my numbered days. I was reintroduced to some amazing blogs this past week, specifically The Minimalists and AJ Leon's blog Pursuit of Everything . These amazing men are doing something different with their lives, choosing to live a life that is radically their own, rather than the well traveled path that has been laid out for us. It was well past midnight, and I could not fall asleep. I could not stop thinking about how I was wasting away my days watching Netflix, working a job I do not like, and spending all my money on unnecessary items, thinking it would make me feel validated, as if those boots I just bought were worth the trade of 6 hours of my life. To stop the demons shouting inside my head, I grabbed my phone and wrote this down: " Ultimately, what do I want from my life? How do I want to spend my limited days and hours and minutes? I think I'd mos...