#RealTalk

So here's a question for you. Have you ever been told that you're crazy? That you are absurd for for doing something or living the way that you do? I follow "Humans of New York" and found this one interview very spot on and you should check it out for a hot second here.

Why do you do the things that you do? What is a reasoning and the fire behind what you seek, pursue, long for and thrive towards?

I have been asked on many occasions if I'm still trying to ride my bike places. Or wondering when I'm going to actually get a "real" job. Why can't I just pick something and just do it for the rest of my life? That's a very simple question. The answer doesn't need to be complex. The answer is: I am a lover of people. That is my full time occupation. Cliche`?

Let me explain the simplicity. The only thing that should matter is loving well. And I am not an expert by any means. When you love, you serve. When you serve you give. When you give unconditionally, you gain. You gain joy. And joy is a blessing, it is everlasting. Most importantly joy is like water. it will always soak whoever is in the splash zone.

I have this friend who I lived with in an apartment. I had an experience that changed my life and this experience made me so happy! And now that I was finished with that season of my life, I was sad and couldn't figure out how to hold onto that happiness. I laid on the floor of her room crying wondering what was wrong with me. These next words that she spoke are etched through out my entire life story and a huge component with in the process that began my discovery of the saving grace of Jesus.

"You need joy. See Happiness is temporary, we experience things that make us happy but over time those things fade. Joy is everlasting. It does not fade. Even when something ends, Joy still lingers continually".


My juvenile self couldn't understand or comprehend at that moment what had just been revealed to me. But because of that it caused me to seek more deeply to discover the difference and understand the meanings.

Because of these ripple effects, I have realized that I want love to be my full time job... Call me a hippie, but it's true! I want to help people to: walk alongside them, share their burdens, hear their celebrations and dance beside them. I want to sit and dwell with them as they ponder the season and seek through the fog as people try to figure out who they are and for what reasons. I want to hug people cry with people and be blown away by who God is with people. The list of this occupation goes on and on and on. Because all of these things bring joy everlasting.

It is not a scale of how much we've done but what those things have done for and in each other.

So what do I want to be when I grow up? I want to love you as much as God loves you and me.

Keep Adventuring.