In the end, it isn’t going to necessarily matter what church you go to or what religion you “subscribe” yourself to. When it comes down to it, all that’s going to matter is whether you’re a son of God or a son of Adam. You will inherit the fortune of your Father, one way or the other.

I have a ton of topics that I keep wanting to tumble about, but find myself lacking the motivation to actually begin writing about them. Oh well.

I think the term “outlived” is amusing. Like if you were to say “So-and-so outlived such-and-such.” I imagine it being used in the same way as the word “outsmarted” instead of the conventional usage of denoting that someone’s lifespan was longer than another person’s. So it would be like, “I really thought I was being clever, but in the end Frank outsmarted me… Dang” and in the living terms “I really thought that I was doing a super job living, but then Steve came a long and just totally outlived me… Bummer life.”

You people are clearly all way more capable on Tumblr than I am haha

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about music. That’s what I do. I love music and I love to think about music. Lately though, I’ve been thinking about music and my lack of a back up plan or a “plan B.” A lot of people ask me why I didn’t stick with school or if I ever think about going to school/why I didn’t go.

For those of you who don’t know, I actually did go to school for an extremely brief amount of time to study English. I had a Presidential Scholarship, which was a ‘competitive academic scholarship’ that gave me the opportunity to go to school for free. I think I actually made $200 by going to school haha I have no idea how.

School was fine. It wasn’t too hard, or too demanding. I had a terrible schedule, but even that’s not why I stopped attending school. It just wasn’t really what I wanted. It seemed to me that pursuing school would push my love for music out of the way. I wanted to be a musician. Sure, being a writer would be sweet, but nothing brings me more joy than playing music. It seemed like a really big waste of time for me to go study to be able to do something that I didn’t really want to in case what I did want to do didn’t work out, especially when I could have been using that time to be actively pursuing what I really wanted to do. True, I could have gone to school for music, but that’s an entirely different conversation.

The more I think about it, the more I agree with the decision I made back then. I would have had an entirely different life and not met a lot of the wonderful people that I’ve met. But not only that, having a back-up plan, having a safety net to fall back on, makes it that much easier to give up on what I would really want to do. It makes it too easy, when times get tough, to say, “Well, whatever, I have this other thing I can do instead” and just forget about music. And I can’t justify that. That’s not the way I want to operate. When I pursue something, I want to fully pursue that one thing. Not have other things constantly in my mind that I’m also considering and be up in the air about whether I’d rather be doing those things instead.

So, I could try to be funny and say something that wouldn’t make sense to most of you (or any of you at all possibly) like “I don’t believe in Plan B,” but the really funny thing is, that’s totally true. I don’t believe in me having a “just in case” scenario as much as I don’t believe in pursuing a girl and having another girl on the side that I could settle for if things didn’t work out with the one I really wanted to be with. That’s just how I am.

-Dan :)

Sometimes people like to bake cookies. My friend and I were discussing this a few days ago when one of us pointed out how cookies have the word “cook” in their name and yet they aren’t even cooked. They should really be called Bakies. One thing lead to another and we determined that it would be hilarious to make “cookies” on a grill and call them Grillies. A few moments ago, I did just that.

I like coming up with ridiculous things and trying them and realizing that they’re actually amazing. It took a number of tries to figure out the correct heat setting/elevation/technique to make the Grillies, but ultimately, our last batch turned out rather good. They taste the same as cookies though, which is a disappointment, because they take way more effort and you can’t make as many at one time as cookies. In the end, I think it was a fun/stupid thing to do one time, just to say it was done, but I probably won’t do it again. I’ll leave the cookie making to my sister.

-Dan

Hey everybody,

As you can clearly see and will now be unnecessarily stated by me, I have a Tumblr. I’ve been thinking about getting a Tumblr for a while, but just haven’t gotten around to it. Basically, I read through my Tweets from my “twitter” account and realized anyone who just stumbled upon them and also read through them would never be left with the impression that I had even the remotest bit of intelligence dwelling in my body haha You probably won’t be left with that impression after reading my “Tumblr” either because, let’s be honest… this blogging site is called Tumblr.

My intention here is to blog about things that are on my mind, whether they be spiritual, academical, or just plain nonsense. I don’t know much about Tumblr, to be honest. Back in my day, we had sites like LiveJournal, which had the tendency to evolve into a huge melodramatic pity parties about how pathetic/depressing people’s lives were. I’m hoping that’s not what Tumblr’s about. I mean, by all means express your feelings and I’m not saying you can’t post about a bad day every once and a while. Please do. But if you have bad day after bad day after bad day and can never find anything pleasant/joy-bringing in your life to blog about, I
 think it would be time to investigate why that is and possibly make a few changes in your life.

-Dan

p.s. Yes, academical is a word :-P