Surfing Ruined My Life

Monday marked the close of the summer quarter of the UCB and I had promised a triple points blog to one astute participating reader.  Well the race got very close there toward the end, but I once again have to unofficially give the crown to Kooky Kyle winning I believe his third straight quarter this year.   Any who there will be a winner’s blog next week to crown our champion.  This weeks UCB will go down on Sunday and being the first of the quarter it is worth 1.5 points.

Kooky asked I write on how to Keep Keeping On.  Now this may seem an almost illiterate suggestion but actually it is a somewhat common phrase in Lisantbonics. I have heard if used by others as well, thus Im not claiming I invented the phrase but I am a strong believer in its message.

What the fuck is Lisanti talking about?  I know that is what you’re thinking; yet I feel it should be a common theme to HowSurfingRuinedMyLife.net.  The essence of “Keep Keeping On” is one’s day-to-day struggle in the undertaking of life.  It refers to the bad times in life, the adversities one must overcome in order to strive for greatness.  Basically when you scrape the bottom of the barrel it is the initiative taken to climb the fuck out of there.

Keep Keeping On is not easy; at times it seems damn near impossible.  Some people I have observed find it easier then others, I think it is your less passionate type who rarely find rock bottom.  The drones sleep walking their way through life not contributing nor depleting, just another cog in the machine.  I don’t know if it is a better existence to be a cog, but certainly by going that route one will find him with less hurtles to jump over.

Those types of people bring a tear to my eyes and I pity them so.  Sure they are necessary to our survival as a human conglomerate, if everyone was trotting the path less taken then it would not be the path less taken in which I probably would have become an accountant or something really lame like that since it would be the path less taken, but that is a whole other can of worms not be opened up here or this blog might go on for pages.

People who don’t settle, cant even comprehend what the word settle means.  Its not even in my vocabulary and every time I make the slightest attempt on it I end up losing my mind.  These types of people are the ones who Keep Keeping On applies to.  When one goes and chases his hopes and dreams more times then not there will be many obstacles along the way.  Or on the other hand if our dreamer finds he has settled may wake up one day be completely disillusioned.

When such events happen this type of person hits a low point of heavy despair, even depression.  I have been here many times.  There were times I felt so alienated I just wanted to walk into a crowded intersection with an automatic weapon and just start taking people out.  I have also felt that the continuation of the act of living too much to bear as well. No matter how low I sink somehow, some way I climb out of my pit and when I do I find myself much stronger from it all and a better person all around.

How do I do it?  That was the initial question in the first place.  First off suicide is not an option to me though I may regularly joke about it.  I have never really had much of an understanding of why anyone would take his or her own life.  No matter how low things look and how one’s current situation may be there is always a way out.  At that moment of absolute despondency things may seem hopeless, but in actuality they are not.  We have the power to change our situation all the time.

In most cases its just a matter of giving up.  I always here people say things like “its too hard” or “I cant do this”.  I have never believed I could not do anything.  It’s just a matter of time, patience, education and practice.  With these four idioms I believe that anything is possible.   Say for example I wanted to become an astronaut.  Now you probably thinking that is impossible Chris you’re too old.

I could go back to school study my ass off, get into the right programs and maybe in ten years or so be qualified to embark on a space mission.  Personally I don’t care to put in all that effort, but if it was something I really wanted I would go for it. If I failed at least I know I gave it my best efforts.

It’s like my professional surfing career.  Truth be told it never really happened for me, but I tried my hardest to make it happen Nothing really popped off and after many years of trials and tribulations I decided to cash in my chips and put my efforts into a new plan (read my ten year plan blog for that one https://surfingruinedmylife.net/2010/09/05/the-ten-year-plan-ucb/).

Its been a long blog for a really short answer.  I Keep Keeping On by Keep Keeping On.  I don’t ever give up.  If one plan fails I come up with a new one.  That is the key right there.  “If you fall down you must get back up again” otherwise you’re just laying there in the dirt like a fool.  I may go through periods of depression and self loathing, but I always come out of it and if you do too you will find more strength within then you ever knew was there before.  I Keep Keeping On because I know that no matter what happens thinks are going to work out in my favor in the end.

Here is a guy who is a true testament to Keep Keeping On.