What’s a way you saw someone living their life that blew your mind in a good way?

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1. Someone bought a used corvette just to use as his errand vehicle

2. The way the hosts of most of the rewatch podcasts I listen to get along, It seemed like such a foreign concept to me, as even though I like nerdy stuff as much as I can, I don’t have any friends who actively like that sort of stuff too. It made it seem like what was keeping me from having that sort of friendship was so insignificant. It’s just been my “White Whale” for so long, even though I do fine socially pretty much everywhere else. It’s been my perception based on that info and own experiences that the issue is the insecurities, and other personal problems that are so common in people in nerdy communities. People everywhere else just talk so much about how easy I am to talk to and be around.

3. I had a professor in undergrad who was incredibly relaxed, always smelled like vodka and smoked a pipe while giving every student a passing grade in a 5-credit class.

   If academia wasn’t so fucked, *that’s* what I would want to do for the rest of my life.

4. When I was living and working on lake powell, I met someone else who was doing what I was doing, kinda. The difference between us was that I was a permanent, year-round employee of that park and he was bouncing between national parks multiple times a year working as a seasonal employee because most of them offer benefits, good pay, and a *lot* of them house their seasonal employees. In the winter, he had a permanent gig living in a hotel room in a resort in Alaska while being a shift lead or something. He went basically wherever the hell he wanted in the summer. He’d been all over the place. Had a lot of cool stories.

5. The crew-for-hire boat bums at the docks. They knew everything about all kinds of boats and had been everywhere, or so it seemed to me as a 14-year-old.

6. A guy older than me who showed up at the mall every week with a different girl, 10-15 years younger than he is, where the girl always seemed to be having a grand ol’ time

7. That you can let everything go and still be happy. Two friends of mine have done this. It’s not for me (yet), but I admire them for it.

8. Victor Earhart.

   That dude was *the* messiah. 🙏