Termite TV - Life Stories

I guess I wanted to talk about this last year in my life in particular, about almost being 18 and growing up before the change of the millennium and everything and um... my experience with the whole thing has been for me personally this year's been big for me because there's been a lot of change in my spiritual growth and things like that not as far as designated to a particular religion or anything, but just observing my friends and things around me and understanding different parts about the world. It's been difficult also because I've had to go through high school and deal with all these new things as well. But the key aspects that I've found that work for me in life is the philosophy that I found in the Dao De Jing which is basically to unlearn aspects of life which really aren't as important as you might think they were and to get away from things that seem more desirable to me. I smoked pot for... last summer for a long time and that helped to open up my mind and different drugs like that but to bring it all back and to find a different meaning in all of that is really an important thing, so I would suggest to anybody who gets into drugs to do the same thing. So... I guess also.... I meditate whenever I get stressed out get into a nice state of not being aware of what's going on around me but just letting things inside me shift and uh... I developed a new group of friends which are sitting over there. They've really been helpful in just... making it through this year. I plan to go on a road trip to California after this year's out. Get on with everything, and maybe go to college the year after that, maybe not. I'm not quite sure. And... as far as anything else... I'll talk about my relationships, I guess, with people. I'm not seeing anybody right now, but I had a girlfriend last year for about a year and... I learned a lot from her actually and she's a lot more of an insightful person and I'm a lot more empathetic person, I think, because of it. More understanding of different people and different things... so that's fun. There's this girl named Joya over there that I liked a lot but she didn't like me, so we didn't end up going out, which was difficult, but that was good because I fixated so much on her that I kinda didn't leave any room to think about other things and once that was over it really helped out... and to tie into all of that, my class biblical literature in high school we were studying the book of Job, making it through different parts of suffering in life and that is a key tool, if I would emphasize anything to anyone who watches this to learn to make it through those times take it easy, and you can't solve everything at one time but if you look for the good things then I guess you eventually make it through. And also to not to worry to rely on your friends for help or to the people that you love or whatever and to be there for your friend as well. And other than that... things are looking pretty good, actually. I was going to this school Boulder High, I had a lot of conflict with my family, my mom just got married this year and her fiance is going to law school now, and there was a lot of turmoil but things seem to have mellowed out a lot, we're getting along really well. So, my life is going pretty well right now. Not as much transition as there has been in a while.... and, I don't know for anyone else who's watching this, I live in Boulder, well actually I live in Estes but I go to school here. That's a cool thing because Estes Park is this mountainous town, really beautiful. It's where the Shining, the mini series on ABC was shot. And then coming to school here is a total change of pace, it's a lot more active, a lot more things to do, a lot more drugs and things and uh... it's a nice balance of the mellowness and having a lot of things to do and a lot of people to meet.