Delayed Adventures - Vacation

I am so glad that I am finally finished with the crazy part of school for the summer and I can get back to writing more often.

I am on my my way out the door to make final preparations for departing for the Cayman Islands on Sunday so I will update everything when I get back on the 7th of July.

I wanted to clear up that I really wanted to be at Vidcon this year but I couldn't pass on the chance to go island hopping. I didn't want to sound like I was complaining, that is all.

News?

So I forgot to write last week, my bad. I am getting killed by summer school. (/excuse) But I wanted to take a moment to share the news that I will have a new post every day in July and I am going to try and have a Vlog everyday in August. Woot! See you guys on Sunday.

-It's okay to not like something, just don't be a jerk about it....

I Feel Fit???

I would like to weigh-in (pun intended?) on the new discussion on weight that we seem to be having in the world these days. I was thrilled to hear that some people want to tear down the ideas of 'perfect body' image that society has long held. However some of the ideas that are floating around I am really unsure of. If you were not aware I am not a skinny person, I am in the 300 lb region most of the time on my 6'2" frame, so I am bigger then average. I do occasionally workout and my work keeps me on my feet most of the day so I never felt like I was out of shape.

Until one day a few weeks ago when I was running very late to my early morning Business Management class. The class is on the third floor and I always take the stairs, but never at a dead sprint to make a class in five minutes (the teacher locks the door when class starts) By the time I ht the third floor landing I was pretty sure I was gong to die (aren't we all?) I was sucking oxygen hard and it was not fun.

It was about the same time that I was reading up on this idea of redefining beauty and I got to thinking about my experience on the stairs. I am not in shape and that is not okay with me. I have always hated my doctor telling me to lose weight considering he is my size or bigger. But the truth is I think that he was right all along. I have heard in the past that no one understands healthy fully so you can be healthy even if your doctor doesn't think so and I still believe that our understanding of health is subjective. But if your life depended on running up three flights of stairs, could you?

So where am I going with this? Big is beautiful and I think that is cool but I think maybe it should be handled on a case to case basis. I do not feel healthy and I am going to do something about it. Not because I feel pressured to by society or some standards of beauty, but because I freaking want to. A popular zombie movie told us how important cardio is to survival.

Losing weight is hard but so is almost everything else in this world worth doing. You will have to want to do it for yourself, the odds of failure are higher if you are doing this for the wrong reasons. If you have been putting this off for awhile DON'T! You can do it and I believe in you. I will be putting in the work and you can to.

It is okay to not like something, just don't be a jerk about it.

-Ben

I Don't Even Know...

I am headed for a slow down. Not to be confused with a country crooner who would settle for a slow down. The poor soul that convinced me to work a full time job and go back to school owes me some sleep, oh wait that genius was me. It is fascinating that I constantly talk about 'making up' sleep, wouldn't sleep be one of those things that is just gone? I am counting down to the Fourth of July and the week of vacation I get then. I am all over the place tonight. I am work-shopping some future ideas that I think you might like. I have also shot a ton of video lately but editing is taking so long it is causing a backlog. Sorry.

Faith

I have been vexed lately and possibly in the mood to wax poetic for some time. I have been turning the topic of faith in my mind over and over as of late. It is a seemingly simple word but it carries some weight.  Go back a few seconds and remember what the first thing was that came to your mind when I said faith. Or rather wrote the word out, but that is not the point, you thought of something when I wrote it. I have a hunch that almost everyone thinks of something and likely no two people have the exact same reaction to the idea of faith. For some people faith is a religious construct and the nonreligious have another reaction. Some people put their faith in themselves, how many times have you read or heard about someone making it “big?” Now how many of those stories used the expression ‘bet on themselves’ or some other sentence syntax meaning something similar. One of the things I feel about faith is that anyone who ‘bet on themselves’ put their faith in themselves to succeed. Some other analogous notions could be when someone tells you to be patient, to wait your turn, or that your time is coming. To me these things all have different meanings but they all involve a small bit of putting faith in yourself. But what about religious faith? Some people put their faith in a higher power and that is also wonderful. I don’t know if this is the kind of thing with right and wrong answers. It feels like no matter what you think of when I write faith, it is just great that you have some. And if you ever find yourself all out of faith, sit down and do everything you can to get it all back.

It’s okay to not like something, just don’t be a jerk about it.

-Ben