My First Post

I do not want to live an ordinary life. I want my life to be full of excitement and adventure. I want to be filled with purpose, and I want my purpose to be fulfilling. I want to meet new people, and I want to help the ones I know now do things beyond their wildest imagination. I want to give my all, and I want to achieve things no one thought possible. I want my life to be a story, not a life of misery nor a life of pure bliss, but a life of tribulation followed by victory. There will be many defeats along the way but every time I will come back victorious.

However, I am faced with an enemy that has kept me chained to the wall, my old friend Mediocracy. I call him my friend because he is not a cruel being. He has served me well throughout my life. I am where I am today because of him. I have a great job, an amazing wife and a wonderful community thanks to the actions I have made in the past. I owe much of this to the wonderful people that have been put in my life but also Mediocricy has kept me from failing. He is always there to make sure I do not fail. He is always there to make sure the bills are paid. He is always there to ensure I do the minimum required to keep my life the way it is today.

But that is just the problem with Mediocracy. Because I never fail, I never hit rock bottom. Because I never hit rock bottom, I always have something to lose. And because I always have something to lose, I never take a chance to push myself to my limits. Daily I yearn for adventure and daily I turn the call down. Sometimes I find myself slowly stepping outside my internal house, leaving my comfort zone and daring to take the journey, but each time I turn around and look out the window of my house watching others begin and return from their fantastic journeys of failure but ultimately victory.

The window of social media is a dangerous window. It allows one to enjoy the pleasure of seeing the best parts of the adventure, the beginning and the end. It causes one to forget the most important part of the journey, the miserable middle. The moments where the heroes are trapped in the jaws of defeat. But these are the moments where heroes are made, and destinies are forged. These are actually the greatest moments of all and until I experience these moments I have not truly lived.

I am like Bilbo Baggins, the dwarves have left, the invitation has been given to me, and it is time to decide if I want to go on this adventure and leave Mediocracy behind. If I want to live an extraordinary life it is time to make an extraordinary decision.

Today is the day I am making the decision to go on an adventure.

When I return to the land of comfort and relaxation, I hope to be a different man than the one I am today. This blog will be a documentation of that adventure that I hope to share with many thousands of people so that they too may one day join me on future adventures that fill our lives with excitement, growth and joy. May this be the first of many posts, and the first of many wonderful tales of the journey and the game we call life.

Until my next post,

John Robert Abraham