Spinning On Its Axis

"Chaos killed the dinosaurs darling."

Sometimes I just like to step back and realize how crazy the world is.

I don't think that should be thought upon as a bad thing though. I mean although the chaos going on around us can be overwhelming at times, it is what makes life interesting.

If we always knew what was going to happen, if we always were in complete understanding of everything at every moment, then life wouldn't be much of an experience would it?

I mean, without the various, random, sporadic moments that occur in everyone's lives, you woulnd't be friends with the same people, or listen to the same music, or have certain dear-to-your-heart experiences.

If you think about it, all of the best movie plots are of people who are caught up in the craziness of life, and have learned to embrace it.

Ferris Buellers Day Off? Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? The Breakfast Club? Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist?

These are prime examples of people who ended up with something really great, all resulting from the fact that the place we live in is fucked up.

I don't know for sure, but maybe I appreciate this fact slightly more than the average person, because I grew up in a place where those moments become something you rely on.

That in combination with the fact that I can't stay in one place, or stay still for long periods of time results in this acceptance to just go with the madly spinning rotation of the earth.

When you have no planned place to go, and nowhere to plan to go, you just go anywhere. You grab some friends, pull them in the car, and drive.

Where are you going?

Good question.

The second you see something along the road you want to stop and check out further, you do. Whether it's a random abandoned dinosaur exhibit in the woods, a pretty spot along the mountains, or a skating rink in the middle of nowhere, you just go.

And when you are with the right people, or maybe even just all by yourself, you end up coming out with some of the best memories of your life.

Someone once asked me if I had noticed any major differences between people in Shippensburg and people in Denver, and I can't help but see one of the more obvious.

That the people, or at least the people I found myself friends with, are a rediculous amount more random than those I am with now.

I'm not talking about day to day conversations and activities, those are really the same.

But when it comes to the weekend, or long summer days, my friends back east know how to just do the weirdest shit.

Just the other day, I got an mms from a friend of mine of a jar of pickles strapped into the car with a seatbelt.

When I asked him what he was doing with a jar of pickles, he replied...

"We are running around town taking pictures with the pickle jar.."

Maybe not to you, but to me, this sounds rediculously fun.

Even when you don't do something in particular, if you can't find a place on the side of the road to stop, you just spend hours in the car driving around nowhere.

And when you do that, you find yourself talking about the weirdest things, and playing the weirdest games, and singing your favorite songs, and soon enough you definitely find out what your favorite beverage from the convenience store is.

I will always love a good Bubblegum Jone's Soda, or a Dragonfruit Vitaminwater, hah.

If you didn't go with what life seems to punch you in the face with, you wouldn't have those moments when you realize that someone really cares about you.

If we didn't experience grief, or these moments we find ourselves in, when we just can't stop feeling stressed, or down, or distracted we would never be able to see the feelings others have toward us.

I mean, we have all experinced it.

That time when you were so stressed about something that you just wanted to crawl into a hole and die, and someone you know steps in and realizes without provocation that something is wrong.

And they know just the right thing to say, and even if you didn't know it before, you now understand that whoever that person is, they care.

That's always a nice feeling. Even for someone who sometimes runs away from that attention like me.

If you didn't click on that random youtube link, you might have never found your favorite band.

If you didn't make those cookies, you wouldn't have found one of your best friends.

If you didn't take that offer to move across the country, even though you didn't plan on it at all...

You wouldn't have found your life.