January 9

Aaaaand good morning, Seattle.
 
Let’s pick up  where I left off last night. Passion, purpose, and multiverses. Because I am nothing if not a GD scholar and these are just my simple musings.

Let’s start pondering if multiverses were true. Imagine every possible side road you’ve ever wanted to venture was true somewhere. It’s weirdly cathartic and comforting just knowing that somewhere *I* actually *am* Beyonce.

So it’s a cool thought to think you could have multiple lives. And it’s even cooler to imagine that we live like we deserve that. Just even the possibility that it is true, no matter how wild or big, when I thought of that I started feeling more ownership over my life and I could see a path to where I act like I live like I am that Christine version from multiverse 3,129 where I have a super popular blog and everyone follows my every move haha. So it’s like this wild card life idea. We all have one, right? We all have big dreams we just brush aside. And this dude from the TED talk was saying students will come to him and a big trend he sees is that most people tend to be scared to act based on perception.

What if people laughed?
What if people judge?
What if people think it’s stupid?
What if we just decided to not care about that?

Also another cool thing was that this dude was so matter of fact saying that anyone could have a side hustle and my wheels were turning like, then what is mine???? Tell me!!!

If you haven’t caught on yet, a lot of what I’m feeling from this dude is focus on the stuff you like and who cares about the rest, right?

And by the way, if we have these multiple lives, doesn’t than mean we should have multiple plans? Not just 1 for life. Not just “get a job, get a hubby, get to babymaking, cash in the 401k.” But way more like “try this, go try this, randomly decide to try this” and then hopefully stay afloat financially lol. But there’s a side of Christine that really wants to take a summer off to go to Napa and learn about wine. There’s a side of me that wants to move to South America and start a smoothie stand.

But here I am, in Seattle.

But there are people actually living that life. There’s probably a small smoothie stand somewhere in Colombia started by someone like me but instead of thinking they just did it.

So back in Cleveland at my first job I had this friend named Will Gibson. Absolutely phenomenal writer. Avid reader. All around stand-up guy. Well there’s another Will Gibson in the world, naturally, and that second Gibson had a really cool quote I’m gonna drop here, but it just makes me so happy coming from someone sharing a name with someone I already love and appreciate. Stupid and sappy, huh? Anyways, second Gibson said “the future is already here – it’s just unevenly distributed.”

AKA if your dream is to give tours in Berlin – it’s already happening, you’re just not the one doing it. If your dream is to go to a party on a giant yacht – someone is doing it, it’s just not you. I don’t know if that’s more depressing or eyeopening but it’s definitely something.

But I remember meeting this girl who works the desk at an OrangeTheory gym and she had owned a little shop in South America and made bank doing it. I remember how excited and jealous I was. I remember wanting to get a step-by-step guide from her. I never followed up to ask her to coffee like I said I would to talk specifics because she was too chatty for my taste. But she had my dream.

Lesson being when you meet someone and something excites you, that is the feeling of all the cells in your body telling you to perk up, there’s something here for you, and don’t be silly and let the opportunity pass like I did. I guess I could still reach out, huh? I’ll have to go hunt that contact list, I totally forget her name.