Saturday, May 14, 2011

And now something completely differnt

I've been on the same topic for far too long. I'm sure it interests some of you but oh well.

I've been a military brat all my life. I haven't spent more than 4 years living in one place. We moved around a lot. To being with it made me very introverted, I didn't want to meet people or talk to people because I knew they or I would just leave all too soon. After a while though I made few but very good friends. Then I moved again and I was a little shy to begin with. I made one friend, talked to a few people and then I met another guy, Justin.

To be honest he changed my life. We just started talking and he brought up "Urban Ninja". I loved that video, but I never though of doing it. He proposed we actaully try, but neither of us were really up for it, tricking wasn't our thing. The next day he found a video of David Belle and found out about parkour. He said "This is what we are looking for." That day was our first day of parkour training.

Later that day I found out about HIPK, the local community and they're twice a month jams. We went to our first jam and it changed our perspective on parkour as a whole. We delved deep into the philosophy behind it and isntead of why we started "This looks cool." we created a life style from it.

Obviously developing muscle and all that helped in my self confidence but in one month flat I became an extrovert. My name was known around the school. I took to the notion that life is worth living to the fullest. I got that from another guy, the community leader of HIPK, Ozzi. This guy pretty much nailed it in.

Justin has said to me I saved him from a path undesirable too. He said that without my intervention on his life he would have join the army at eighteen and pretty much pulled a selfless sacrifice. He already had it figured out he would die before his 21st birthday. If that didn't, there is always a rope.

He says that I pretty much "kicked his ass back into shape." I kept pestering him to do things he liked to do, got him into manga and anime, gave him hope that people would be his friend. Even though he trained parkour he stayed an introvert. At one point we had an argument (that in about thirty minutes I had already forgiven and forgot) and he refused to talk to me. At that point I realized, I was quite literly his only friend.

Anytime he was hanging with someone, I was there. They were my friends and sadly not his. Actually several of my friends hung out because I was there. No matter where I hung out on campus, several others would come there because I was there. Justin spent the next week in the library both mid-break and lunch and he never really talked to anyone.

After that week I saw him walking in the hallway and popped up next to him and said. "Hey, there's this awesome anime I found, you should come over later so I can show it to you." And low and behold he did and all was well.

It's kinda strange when someone tells you: "Hey, you kept me from killing my self just by being who you are."

That one of the reasons I write everything I do. All this stuff I write is totally my opinion and how I feel, like "Onwards and Upwards", but my main hope is at least one person takes something away from that. One person find new hope, or feel better. That one person then might go on to do what I do and hopefully help another person, and it goes on like a virus.

So if there is something you like to do. Do it. Don't live a fake life for anyone. Don't look down on yourself because then no one can look up on you. Just think "How can I be awesome today." In your own eyes.

Peace, and remember, you are worth more than you can imagine.

20 comments:

  1. jeez thats touching , great blog . did you guys get a good hang of parkour? always looked at that like it was some crazy ass sport id never be able to do

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  2. Man, that brought a tear to my eye, having one true friend is better than having a bunch of "friends." This was an amazing post man, very inspiring.

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  3. That was a heart warming tale.

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  4. That really was beautiful.

    Did you guys ever feel silly when you first started doing parkour? A friend and I wanted to try once and we just sort of ended up jumping around a playground for a little...

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  5. To be honest no. We just had fun. At first we we're a little silly jumping around the playgrounds but we looked up tutorials and trained with seasoned tracuers. The along with conditioning it felt more like we we're doing it out of passion so we didn't feel self conscious. I wasn't really a self conscious person by that time anyways.

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  6. This was a really cool post, Thanks for posting!

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  7. Moving can be a tough thing to go through, I feel you.

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  8. it's really inspirational to hear what you've been through with justin. Thanks,

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  9. That really is an awesome friendship. Its so amazing when just by being yourself & making friends, not only can you change someone's life, but improve your whole world view.

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  10. I like your writing style and content. Keep up the good work :)

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  11. Its nice to hear what a good influence you are on people.

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  12. This is very inspiring, i like the idea, keep up updated :)

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  13. my father was military too but my parents splitted up so i stayed in one place my lifetime not that bad until now i want to leave

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  14. very touching post, mate. true friends stay friends. hard to find honest people these days.

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  15. Great post, thanks for sharing ;)

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  16. Inspirational post. Thanks!

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  17. ill take that into consideration!

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  18. Moving is pretty tough... Thanks for the post.

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  19. Great post, always move onwards and upwards. Love the message about someone taking something from your posts. Really inspiring.

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