Finding Freedom

And it is one of those sweet and blissful things... but only once one has attained it. Doing that, as you may have guessed, doesn't always come easily. However, I do believe that I am slowly on my way to gaining the freedom I have been seeking. Lesee where to start...

I had finished reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad and it got me thinking. After a good amount of time, I finally arrived at a question for myself: why did I want to get so much money? Well, money would give me the opportunity to not work. Or, at least to not immediately worry about having a job all of the time. Again, why did I not want to work? Hmm... because I gained free time? Yes, exactly. And suddenly, once I came to that realization, I knew exactly what I wanted and had a bit of an idea of how to get it. Money was part of it.

A quick term I'mma throw out: time affluent. According to some site--which was then referenced on one of my fav sites: Lifehacker--there are two different kinds of "affluent" people in the world. There are those who are affluent in the more common way, with money, and those who are affluent in time (though they usually have a good amount of money themselves). But yeah, the second kind of affluent is exactly what I want. I don't care about having nice things per se, but the thing I want most is time. So, as I continued to think about it, what comes with free time would be freedom. Traveling has always been one of my favorite things to do, so what if I had the affluency (I'm quite sure that I'm making words up here) in both money--and more importantly--time to just be traveling almost all of the time? It would be just what I had always wanted.

Still, the thing that's great about such "freedom" is that I am able to work whether or not I am making any sort of income. We all know that jobs can be one hell of a burden, something I don't want, but what if you didn't need the job? Well, you wouldn't necessarily be so worried about losing it. ... meaning that if you did lose it no big deal. Even more interesting, though, is that you would most likely search out jobs which you loved, because--let's face it--if you didn't have to work, it would be quite dumb to work doing something you didn't like.

So as of now, I am facing two major roadblocks on my way to "freedom." One is the money aspect, which will hopefully help me with getting the free time thing down. The other is a little less obvious. Think for a second... you know that you know me...

That's right: me.

Like I've mentioned before (um, I think), my antisocial skills and extreme fear in some situations render me incapable of achieving this freedom I want. But, there is one ridiculously easy thing I can do to overcome this problem: just rid myself of fear and get some of those "fabled" skillz (the 'z' means that it's.. better). Now that's a simplification of the process--how the hell do you get rid of fear?--but sometimes the hardest things can be solved by simple solutions. At least that's what I'm hoping. I do have to say that I have begun to understand better how to do this and, as of late, I have been acting...

Last weekend I went home for seemingly no reason at all. It was actually one of my on-the-spot decisions, meaning that it wasn't thought through at all--which for me is good. However, I was given a problem, as I would have nothing to do once I did get back home. I mean, I wanted to hang with Alex (which I did ^^) but had no idea of what else. Sit on my bed with my laptop for a day and a half? No thanks, I'll pass. I had already done that for the majority of winter break anyways. So instead, about a night or two before I left, a quick question ran through my head: who did I know that was close to home with whom I could "hang"? Bam! Two seconds later I had my answer. Little did I know that it would work out so well (after abusing my lying privileges and spending ten bucks on gas).

Friday I went home with the Indy--also known as Sahil--and had a relatively good ride. Kinda weird how we're still friends after all the shit, but, whatev. That's for another post. But yeah, got home and said hi to my parents who were totally surprised. I never got around to telling them that I was returning ^^; They didn't much mind (specially my dad, he just loves me -_-).

Right, Friday night. That basically ended up being me and my A-man hanging at home. Chillaxing. We were both pretty tired but still had a great time. Too bad we didn't get to see that movie together. Which movie do I speak of? Well... just gimme a sec!

Saturday morning I went to the Auto Show in DC. The night before I had agreed to go with my parents--mainly because it'd get me on their good side and let me go out that night (I had a plan!)--but it turned out to be pretty cool. Bunch of cars (obviously) but my favorites, as always, were the concept cars. They all look so futuristic and the fact that we could be driving them in a few years is soooooo cool. But yeah, overall, good. And, although I wouldn't call myself a car-lover, there are some cars that I like seeing. Mmmm... S2000. Er, *cleans drool* there. Sorry that you had to see that.

We--me and my parents--were all pretty hungry, not to mention tired, by the end of it so we decided to grab some Chinese food down at Chinatown(!). That was good ^_^ Oh, and during that I chatted with my parents about the movie I wanted to see. Which we did end up watching. Which you should watch too, cause it's scrumptulescent. No, really, go. It's called El Laberinto Del Fauno (or Pan's Labyrinth for you lazy non-Spanish-speakers).

After the movie it was late. Well, late just cause I had gotten up so early and done so much (in comparison to my usual weekends). And... damn this post is getting long and it's kinda late. So I'mma finish it later. This seems as good of a stopping point as any. ^^ Don't worry, there is a point to all this seemingly useless babbling. It's coming up next. Just sorta hang around 'til then.