My Virgin Blog

So I'm joining the blogosphere.....I got the inspiration to do this from a friend of mine, and well here goes.............I've always enjoyed writing, I've written poetry and lyrics for as long as I can remember. There is something therapeutic about writing to me, even if no one reads it.......I was born in San Diego, to parents of portuegese and italian descent. So for starters I was screwed...italian and portuegese are probably the most passionate people in the world, and I got a triple dose of it. Whatever I do in life, I am all in, 100% commitment...I go big or don't go at all.....and that can be good, like for example if I'm dating someone, and bad for example if I go out on the town.... its to the wall......like my friend told me..."You charge too hard"...haha that was a compliment in my mind...
I'm a real person, there are no pretenses on my part. What you see is what you get, I have no filter. To this day I have friends and family that will call me to ask my opinion on something because they know that they will get the unalderated truth....If ya don't want the truth don't ask me......which will be a topic of one of my blogs at some point...."why people surround themselves with what they want to hear"..........I'm free spirited, If I feel like doing something, I do it as long is doesn't hurt someone. I live a life undefined, meaning that I refuse to let myself be defined by my age, my gender.....if I want to be a rockstar at 50 years old, I'll do it, if I want to take up sewing(this wont ever happen, sewing seems boring), I'll do it....George Foreman won the heavyweight title at age 45...everyone said he couldn't do it...way to go george......people might say, "oh you say this cause your getting older", not so I've lived my life this way for as long as I can remember...when I was 18 my best friend was almost 40 years old, at the time he was dating my girlfriends mom, and he was traveling the world taking pictures of children that were in war zones. He taught me so much about apartheid and the role of the united states in afghanistan and iran...yes people, the middle east issues have been going on forever...anyway, I digress. The point is, I would have never learned anything if I had put limits on myself. Never say I can't.
Anyway, I have lived all over the place. My parents did lots of things, missionaries, entrepenuers, restaraunteurs, and for the last 18 years my dad now does medicine...who knew? I've lived in san diego,hawaii,new york,ohio,washington, washington d.c.,nashville,maryland, san francisco...i went to poor private schools, homeschool, and expensive private schools, I was once in one of those fringe schools out in the wilderness that you hear about on 60 minutes. We were by the canadian border and we tried escaping by hiking out of mountain range, and almost froze to death in the wilderness....it was awesome...I've lived in poverty and I've had times of wealth...I've played alot of sports, NCAA basketball, boxed in the Golden Gloves, Jiu jitsu tournaments......One day I decided I'm going to do music and write my own album, so I picked up a guitar, started playing, met some other musicians, we wrote an album in 2 weeks and in 3 weeks we performed...you can hear the music and read the lyric(the only part I'm pseudo proud of) it was one of the best experiences of my life.....It might sound like I am tooting my own horn here, but I'm not...I'm trying to make a point that if you charge, you try new things, you experience, and give yourself to things, that there is so much to learn...there is sooooo much to lose by playing it safe all the time....
So after my discourse its time to talk about the blog....This blog is going to be a window into my soul, my thoughts, my opinions....it will probably piss some of the people off that read it(if anyone does)...well......GOOD...... I hope that it resonates with people, I hope that it periodically makes you uncomfortable, inspires you, makes you think....makes you consider the other side...helps you to think outside of the box that your upbringin may have put you in....lets do this............I'm going to end this with one question, and if you leave a comment, please answer it....."Are you close minded?"