"I can, So I will"

"Did you know, you can quit your job, you can leave university? You aren’t legally required to have a..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:00:11 -0500

“Did you know, you can quit your job, you can leave university? You aren’t legally required to have a degree, it’s a social pressure and expectation, not the law, and no one is holding a gun to your head. You can sell your house, you can give up your apartment, you can even sell your vehicle, and your things that are mostly unnecessary. You can see the world on a minimum wage salary, despite the persisting myth, you do not need a high paying job. You can leave your friends (if they’re true friends they’ll forgive you, and you’ll still be friends) and make new ones on the road. You can leave your family. You can depart from your hometown, your country, your culture, and everything you know. You can sacrifice. You can give up your $5.00 a cup morning coffee, you can give up air conditioning, frequent consumption of new products. You can give up eating out at restaurants and prepare affordable meals at home, and eat the leftovers too, instead of throwing them away. You can give up cable TV, Internet even. This list is endless. You can sacrifice climbing up in the hierarchy of careers. You can buck tradition and others’ expectations of you. You can triumph over your fears, by conquering your mind. You can take risks. And most of all, you can travel. You just don’t want it enough. You want a degree or a well-paying job or to stay in your comfort zone more. This is fine, if it’s what your heart desires most, but please don’t envy me and tell me you can’t travel. You’re not in a famine, in a desert, in a third world country, with five malnourished children to feed. You probably live in a first world country. You have a roof over your head, and food on your plate. You probably own luxuries like a cellphone and a computer. You can afford the $3.00 a night guest houses of India, the $0.10 fresh baked breakfasts of Morocco, because if you can afford to live in a first world country, you can certainly afford to travel in third world countries, you can probably even afford to travel in a first world country. So please say to me, “I want to travel, but other things are more important to me and I’m putting them first”, not, “I’m dying to travel, but I can’t”, because I have yet to have someone say they can’t, who truly can’t. You can, however, only live once, and for me, the enrichment of the soul that comes from seeing the world is worth more than a degree that could bring me in a bigger paycheck, or material wealth, or pleasing society. Of course, you must choose for yourself, follow your heart’s truest desires, but know that you can travel, you’re only making excuses for why you can’t. And if it makes any difference, I have never met anyone who has quit their job, left school, given up their life at home, to see the world, and regretted it. None. Only people who have grown old and regretted never traveling, who have regretted focusing too much on money and superficial success, who have realized too late that there is so much more to living than this.”

- Wunderkammer: Did You Know (via undeadlife)
Love this.

fuckyeahtattoos: Done by Chuck Howe @ Classic Tattoo in Santa...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:58:50 -0500

fuckyeahtattoos:

Done by Chuck Howe @ Classic Tattoo in Santa Paula, Ca

theyellowdoorpaperie: move along the narrative…

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:49:38 -0500

theyellowdoorpaperie:

move along the narrative…

jaiphoto: Rise in the east but settles in a final location...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:52:20 -0500

jaiphoto:

Rise in the east but settles in a final location #californication #westsidebestside #nevergiveup #dowhatyoulove

"It is possible that longing for something is better than actually having it. I’ve heard it said that..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:52:04 -0500

“It is possible that longing for something is better than actually having it. I’ve heard it said that satisfaction is the death of desire.”

- Hank Moody from “Californication” (via mynewconsciousness)

andsoweramble: #theman #hankmoody #satisfaction #desire...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:46:32 -0500

andsoweramble:

#theman #hankmoody #satisfaction #desire #californication #love #lust #death

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"Never really all that interested, but I find myself telling her how beautiful she is anyway, ’cause..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:44:19 -0500

“Never really all that interested, but I find myself telling her how beautiful she is anyway, ’cause it’s true – all women are, in one way or another. You know, there’s always something about every damn one of you. There’s a smile, a curve, a secret. You ladies really are the most amazing creatures - my life’s work. But then there’s the morning after - the hangover, and the realization that I’m not quite as available as I thought I was the night before. And then she’s gone. And I’m haunted by yet another road not taken.”

- Hank, Californication (via aidenstillwater)

"You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head. “Because they end to early,” she..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:43:14 -0500

““You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head. “Because they end to early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never get to see the bullshit that comes later. You know, life.””

- God Hates Us All - Hank Moody (via quibblequirk)

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"Let’s shoot for the moon. If we only get half way there, so be it."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:36:47 -0500

“Let’s shoot for the moon. If we only get half way there, so be it.”

- Hank Moody (Californication)

boringasfolk94: Me on a good day.

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:36:35 -0500

boringasfolk94:

Me on a good day.

wasted-symbols: do do do

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:34:25 -0500

wasted-symbols:

do do do

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"When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore..."

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:35:57 -0500

“When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”

- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (via simply-quotes)

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