Tag: circumstance

#91 Have a Car Chase

It has been brought to my attention that I have in fact done this and completely forgot!

Before I begin my narrative let me introduce you to my friend Emily. Emily is hilarious, beautiful, joyful, so randomly brilliant, and so unbelievably crazy that she is one of my favorite humans to be around. She forced her way into my life and I love her for it.

Back in high school and probably even now Emily’s type of man was a Bearded Gentleman with a Big Truck.

Long ago when Emily and I were in the same state and I did not have a driver’s license and for reasons I can’t really remember we had my mom’s Scion XB. Which is basically just a car that looks like a box and doesn’t have any necessary need for speed that would be desired/ideal for a car chase. So of course that was the car that we had on this day.

Now if I’m being honest I have absolutely no idea what we were doing that day, but I can tell you exactly where we were on the highway when Emily spotted a good looking truck that passed us and she swore the guy driving it was just her type. So of course she speeds up to try to pass him and get a proper look at him. Now the Scion isn’t good with speed, she’s getting the Scion up there, but this guy is hauling. Full on does not care what the speed limit is and our tiny box car is not even on his radar. Of course Emily doesn’t care about that and guns the Scion and pursues the heck out of this truck.

Does this story verge on stalker territory? A little, but the reason it doesn’t is cause remember that I said we were in a Scion, well we were also going up a highway that is 65mph that heads into elevation. Now this isn’t a problem if you have a car that has power and has no problem with elevation increase. Ah but the lil Scion does not have that power. Going up a hill it drops 20mph and you sitting at a comfy 45mph til you can make it to where the speed limit is actually 45mph.

So did we even get close to this guy? No. Not at all. Did we make an effort? Yes. Did we have the worst possible car for a car chase? Absolutely. Should we still have tried? Yes, that could have been Emily’s future husband and we had to give it a shot; even though it was a fail.

So there ya have it y’all I was actually involved in a car chase back in the day. Maybe not super dramatic, but not everything in life has to be dramatic. Plus a casual car chase just happening sounds like the ideal for a circumstance goal.

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#96 Have someone tell me their life story

Oddly enough I had 2 very different people in the past month divulge their life story to me and it wasn’t even by my prompting. It just sort of happened. Don’t know if I was just the kind of person that they wanted to listen or they just needed to talk and I was there. Either way I really didn’t expect how willingly these people told me their stories. I am a reserved person and I’m not really good at telling my own story, so hearing others so easily divulge their life was fascinating to me.

One of these people I am slowly becoming friends with now and then the other I had met them the night before and then the next day it became very obvious how similar we were. Based on those similarities I think it was easy to talk to me and trust me because it was almost like talking to myself. The conversation was flowing in a way that I had only experienced with close friends and this interaction happened with a stranger. Granted I would not classify them as a stranger now after the talk we had, but it’s kind of up in the air if I’ll ever actually see this person again.

It’s kind of crazy how one of these people shared their life with me and just vanished and then the other I’m trying to form a friendship with. They both had such interesting lives and gave me perspectives that I am aware of, but am not directly familiar with. I’d like to talk to them often and see where their lives go. I obviously don’t want to divulge their lives to the internet, but I wanted to reflect on the interactions and their lives.

I am thankful they talked to me and I am grateful to have had such conversations with them.

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Master List

The Plan: Have 100 goals completed before I turn 30.

The Goals:

  1. Know over 25 go to healthy recipes
  2. Clear skin
  3. Find a fitness activity to be passionate about
  4. Get to and maintain a 59 kilograms weight
  5. Keep consistent pace on a run
  6. Dance every day for a month
  7. Do another OCR
  8. 20 Mile Hike
  9. 20 Consecutive Push Ups
  10. Learn some yoga
  11. Master a classical piano piece
  12. Make a table top game
  13. Build a game table
  14. Finish a full art journal
  15. Paint a picture
  16. Scrapbook
  17. Learn calligraphy
  18. Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake
  19. Learn ballroom dancing
  20. Write a Book
  21. Zorbing
  22. Sky dive
  23. Parasailing/Paragliding
  24. Canyoneering
  25. Learn to Sail
  26. Zip line
  27. Surfing
  28. Scuba Diving
  29. Bungee jump
  30. Backpacking trip
  31. Read 1000 books
  32. Fluent Spanish
  33. Decent Korean
  34. Obscure history
  35. Connoisseur of Tea
  36. Study Business
  37. Art History
  38. Astronomy
  39. Study a Theory
  40. Learn something I have no prior interest in
  41. Puerto Rico
  42. Spain
  43. Italy
  44. Peru
  45. South Korea
  46. Southeast Asia
  47. Greece
  48. Iceland
  49. New Zealand
  50. Road Trip the U.S.
  51. Budget
  52. Savings
  53. Start Investing
  54. 800+ Credit Score
  55. Passive Income
  56. Financial Freedom
  57. Pay off all Debts
  58. Proper Accounting
  59. Start my own business
  60. Own a Home
  61. Gardening
  62. Fly Tying
  63. Cardistry
  64. Survival
  65. Knife Throwing
  66. Leather Craft
  67. Bartending
  68. Fighting
  69. Videography
  70. Beauty
  71. Go Dancing at least twice a month for a year
  72. Monthly Board Game Night
  73. Go out every night for 1 week
  74. Throwback outings
  75. Live music
  76. Make New Friends
  77. Say Yes
  78. Go to Vegas with a Group
  79. Dating
  80. Join a Club
  81. 9 Ball Break and Run
  82. Complete a Dozen Escape Rooms
  83. See a Play on Broadway
  84. Stay in a Haunted Hotel
  85. Fly First Class
  86. Have the best Theme Party
  87. Go to a World Festival
  88. Cook Everything in a Cookbook
  89. Drive an Expensive Sports Car
  90. Teach dog utterly useless trick
  91. Have a Car Chase
  92. Befriend strangers at hotel
  93. Go to a Psychic
  94. Start a dramatic scene from a movie to someone in coffee shop
  95. Return something lost to someone
  96. Have someone tell me their life story
  97. See someone in a bookstore looking at a book and buy it for them
  98. See a shop that is doing some type of class and go sign up for one
  99. Make up a different persona for a day
  100. Attend a fancy affair

Circumstance

Expect the unexpected. This list relies on circumstances that will hopefully lead me to interesting adventures.

  1. Get in a taxi and yell “follow that car”
    • Taxi must follow that car, can’t just yell it and then nothing happen.
  2. Befriend strangers at hotel
    • Make some travel friends!
  3. Go to a Psychic
    • Something has to happen right?
  4. Start a dramatic scene from a movie to someone in coffee shop
    • Probably will scare the heck out of some people, but the hope is to get the target to join in.
  5. Return something lost to someone
    • Preferably including some dramatic running.
  6. Have someone tell me their life story in 2 hours
    • Perhaps someone in a park or someone who isn’t in a rush.
  7. See someone in a bookstore looking at a book and buy it for them
    • Hopefully leads to friendship or at least a long discussion of books.
  8. See a shop that is doing some type of class and go sign up for one
    • Spontaneous moment.
  9. Make up a different persona for a day
    • Commit fully on style, attitude, and everything.
  10. Attend a fancy affair
    • A reason to get dolled up and be classy and live the high society life just for a night.