So… about this.

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I guess this’ll be my official first entry. The purpose of this blog is to document my travels over the next two+ years. I’m already a few weeks into it, so there will be a little catching up to do. I shall name this The Traveler’s Blog, it screams cheap ripoff in the worst of ways.

Today I had to wake up at 7 AM for a conference call with China. The call was worthwhile, but I’m debating whether or not staying up so late to now start a blog is truly worthwhile or wise. But that’s work, and do to some nasty non-disclosure agreements, and the since it’ll be boring, I’ll stay off that subject.

The more interesting part of today is that I met up with two old friends from high school. It was strange to see them after so many years. It was even stranger to realize where I was in life relative to them, and how our values and perceptions have become so greatly different. 5 years ago, I would see these two people daily. For lack of a better phrasing (or potentially lack of energy to symbolize), these were my friends that always had my back.

One of the two attempted to move out to California, but after a series of unfortunate events, retreated very quickly back into his mother’s house, still residing there today. 5 years ago, all he would talk about was how he needed to escape the town we grew up in. He hated my high school, he hated the people there, he hated everything about the town, and he wanted to get out. Yet 5 years have elapsed, and he remains, still wanting to get out. Of course I heard his story about how he is close to moving out to begin at a new college, but of course, I have to be skeptical.

My other friend received a mathematics degree from a liberal school. When I say liberal, I’m talking hippies in the woods liberal. Now he’s doing some statistical and mathematical work for a marketing company, that apparently barely pays money. He’s going back to school to get his master’s degree, but in the meantime, he’s working from home.

I guess that’s the part that really sets us aside. They are both in the same place that they were 5 years ago, physically. While they’ve both been doing their own thing, their environment hasn’t changed. Can people grow as people if they physically stay in the same place? At the moment, I am working from home, and something about doing so inherently annoys me. It’s as though no matter what I have accomplished outside of this home, once I step foot back inside of it, I’m just as I was when I first entered.

But now I travel. I will no longer have a consistent setting reference for which people can equate me. I can redefine myself in every new location, and reflect about them here. This will be the Traveler’s Blogs.