Quarter Life Crisis

These past few months have been rather interesting for me.  Barraged by the monotony of routine life, I think I’ve entered somewhat of a “quarter life crisis”.  The hilarity of the situation is compounded by the fact that not only am I fully aware of it, I EMBRACE it. 

Quarter Life Crisis, of course, is relative because I really do not want to live to be 100 years old.  Oh my lord.  I think if I live to be one hundred years old, I will have to go skydiving for my one last hurrah.  I will “accidently” forget my parachute, and most likely have a heart attack on my way down as excrement leaks out of my once healthy (but now dysfunctional because of old age) anus.  Honestly, the moment I have anal leakage problems is the day that I really need to not be on planet earth nemore. 

Anyways, apart from that incredibly grotesque imagery, I really believe that I’m entering quarter life crisis.  In this past month, I have begun a regement of very suspicious “quarter life crisis” type activities…

#1. I have enrolled in my local karate/jujitsu class, and am determined to be on Ultimate Fighting Challenge once before I die.  TELEVISION AND FAME HERE I COME!!!

#2. I am 100% committed to developing a nice set of six pack abs that will blind everyone who by some unfortunate and compulsive force look upon them.  So far progress has been less than satisfactory.  But I swear, I see two of the six slowly emerging from beneath the layers of excessive fat.  Seriously.  I’ll send pictures.  Except, in the pictures I will be completely naked.  So it might be hard to focus on the abs.  Because, of course, my farmer’s tan.  Perverts.

#3. I am taking Jazz Piano.  Why?  Because, when my piano teacher plays jazz piano, I think it’s pretty freaking hot.  No homo. 

#4. I am going to get a tattoo very soon.  I am going to get a dragon that goes from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet.  In complete red.  So there’ll be a huge gigantic dragon snaking across my entire body.  No homo x2.

#5. I signed up for eHarmony.com.  So far I have gotten ZERO profile checks.  F my life.

#6. I read fmylife.com on a daily basis, and relate to most of the posts somehow.

#7. I want to learn to dance hip hip style so that I can go clubbing.  That way, when I’m thirty years old, I can live with my mom and go clubbing every weekend.  CHYEA BABY!

Okay, besides the little bits of humor laced throughout my seven “quarter life crisis” type of activities, the main ideas still apply.  I am getting a six pack (cause I’ve always wanted one), learning jazz piano (cause I’ve always wanted to, and thirty is the beginning of the end of my life neways), taking martial arts classes (so that I can karate chop my tutoring center kids more effectively when they do not pay attention), getting a tattoo (not of a big red dragon, omg, but something simple on my shoulder cap), and I do want to learn dancing.

These days, I’ve just really been feeling that life is too short, and there’s just so much of life left to live!  I’ve been meeting so many different people these days, and it’s been really amazing.  Every time I meet someone, I realize more and more how simple it is to make non-Christian friends.  This is such a first in my life.  Before, I was pretty much set in my little comfort bubble, without even fully realizing it most of the time.  Sure, I did some uncomfortable stuff.  But rarely did I step out of my safe haven of security to just make a bunch of friends that are non-Christian.

Now that I’m trying a bunch of random stuff, I’ve been meeting people who are different than I am…and to be honest, it’s been quite a blessing.  It makes me realize so much more what this whole church planting thing is supposed to be about.  Yes, I’ve been “out of the game” in the traditional sense this past year.  But, honestly, I feel like I’m more into the core foundation of what church planting is supposed to be than I have ever been.  I’m not surrounded by Christians every day of my life, and I’m making friends with people who don’t know Jesus.  Yes, I could definitely use some more community.  But in many ways, I feel like God isolated me from everyone I am comfortable being around so that I can open my eyes to the people around me…

I’m not going to lie.  This season hasn’t been easy.  It’s been rough adjusting to a lifestyle of working 24/7, of being so far away from everyone that I consider close, and of trying to stay in touch with Him.  But through it all, nothing has changed…I still love God, and I still believe that He can move in a powerful way within the people around me.

Quarter Life Crisis has been pretty good to me.  It has definitely been new perspective, a breath of fresh air on this thing called life.

Another motivation for this quarter life crisis is to find a girlfriend.  Apparently, all my tutoring center kids think that the girl I am going to end up with will look like the girl on the RIGHT.  That would make the person on the LEFT their perspective of ME.

I don’t know what I find more disturbing.  The fact that my tutoring center kids view ME in such a contorted manner, or that they have little hope for my future girlfriend.

You’re out there somewhere, baby…and when I find you…