I've had many different life ambitions over the years, I wanted to be a member of an F1 pit crew, a games designer, a CSI, a sniper and a whole host of other things as well...but the one thing that has never changed has been my desire to learn to snowboard. A couple years ago I made a post talking about a snowboarding game that came out called SSX, it was another instalment of the SSX snowboard series from EA and arguably one of the best games they have released recently.
SSX was the spark of this life long ambition for a pretty meaningless skill that you can only use occasionally and in certain areas. It's something I've always wanted to do ever since I played the first one of those games when I was like 6 years old. Why? Because it looks cool. That's literally the reason. Yeah it might be dangerous but it looks so cool! You get to spend all day playing in the snow up a mountain surrounded by breath taking views! What's not to love?
I don't really know why I'm writing this to be honest. No-one reads this, I don't publish it anywhere. My dream is still to learn to snowboard but I would still like to get into medical research or something along those lines while I'm waiting to have the money saved up. That's what it comes down to. Why haven't you done it yet? Because I haven't been able to afford it. Why aren't I doing it now? Because I still can't afford it.
Rest assured the whole none of you that read this, I WILL do this, it's not an IF, it's a WHEN. I may not be off doing all these crazy adventurous things just yet, but I will be doing it just as soon as I can afford it. Just watch. I may not become important or well known but I'm determined to ride the Great Wall, see the northern lights, climb a mountain and a whole bunch of other stuff I've been waiting for the means to go out and do. There's a time and a place or everything. You just gotta wait for the right one.
Not all of them are big things, some are quite mundane, like meeting my favourite authors, learning to whistle properly (this one is actually getting somewhere) and being able to run a mile and a half in less than 10minutes. It's a simple goal and again I'm getting there, currently my best time is 12mins or something similar but it's been a couple months so I need to get back into practice.
I also need to visit New Zealand to see the sets for Lord of the Rings...don't let me forget that one.
Oh yeah, I also got shortlisted for an interview at a hospital in lincoln. That's pretty awesome and hopefully what I need to start off my adventures. I'm not saying I'm gunna be the next Bilbo Baggins, but I certainly plan on going on an adventure soon!
