The line between adventure and misadventure is a fine one. Maybe as fine as delusion and reality. As it turns out riding an old road bike and towing 75lbs of crap through the sandy dirt roads of the mountains of the Mohave Desert might not have been the best plan. Who knew?
Initially, I felt cowering in a dark room, not talking to anyone, and eventually just pretending the whole thing never. Then I said to myself "What are you going to do go and hide under the covers and piss and moan about how much of a loser you are and ignore the fact that you quite and failed because of a few minor setbacks, like getting lost and being solicited for sex by married men?"
I answered myself with a resounding "Yes."
And so I did. And it was a pathetic a scene as you have ever scene.
Anyways, after very careful rationalization I have come to understand that in fact I didn't fail at all! That in fact, I may have exceeded my initial goals by one hundred or maybe even a thousand fold!
Sure the nay sayers will say "Jeffrey, my ignorant friend, you not only failed, you failed in such a way and with such immensity that your failure constitutes the use of the term, epic fail."
to which I would respond
"No, my poor misguided friend, your thought processes and understandings of the world are to be pitied and indeed I do pity them. You see friend, you live in a world of boundaries and limitations, of rules and regulations, of goals and expectations, where as I, I am not thwarted by such things in my quest for life. I can not be bound and shackled by such things. I can not be imprisoned by expectations, my own or others. What you fail to see is that you are an inmate to the prison of accountability. I, through a dark, stinking, rotting, mud filled tunnel called rationalization, have escaped and now roam free outside those stifling walls. I am man, I am free, I have escaped!"
Self Delusion is a wonderful thing.
I'll be posting about my wonderfully funny mis-adventure in the future, giving all the juicy and embarrassing details that are never funny at the time but become deliciously hilarious in retrospect.
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4 comments:
ohhhhh this is gooooooood
Oh, do tell!!!!!
i still love you and have at five letters written out that i never sent. miss you friend.
Didn't i warn you about staying too sexy? I think i specifically warned you due to the dangers presented by females (implicitly those of roughly your age bracket) to sexy men, but apparently the warning was apt against married men. The desert is a strange and magical place. Magical not in the whimsical way, more in the old school celtic: you meet a fairy who seduces you then cuts your ears off and eyes out and ten years later your bastard half-fey offspring finds you and kills you in your sleep with a rusty knife. Ah, fairy tale endings always make me smile.
love,
luke
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