Let’s Go Skydiving & Launch A Website
“Let’s launch big in 2019 to help you and your favorite group text enjoy the best travel hints and hikes, recommendations and reviews. Follow my personal posts here for ideas along the way, and follow Touristy Tourist for creative lessons in getting lost.”
I’m not a big fan of cheesy bumper stickers or particularly cheesy tag-lines. But if you’re going to have to follow anything without hitting the cars in front of you, then it might as well be something semi-optimistic. I only recently started listening when I heard people say certain cliche mottos- “Follow your dreams!” or “Do what makes you happy!” It seemed to me that level of inflated cheeriness was attainable only by those who could also, say, afford to attain such a nice cheese.
Recently, however, I started wondering why we hear these types of sayings so often. And if we’re hearing them that often, who are the people who are repeating them? It seems these small, prepackaged nuggets of good faith specialize in the same markets as those who use pastel colored stickers, pretty classroom posters, and they probably come from lying parents. I didn’t realize we were starving for rigged fortune cookies. Perhaps I’m too cynical, though, probably because those cute stickers I really want cost $8. And since I typically measure my units of wealth in burrito-size increments of $8, that really doesn’t seem equal to any stickers.
In my confusion about catchy delusions, I decided to see if it were possible that all the annoying motivational rhetoric I was hearing were true, and perhaps at the least, even useful. The idea of people actually following their dreams baffled me. Actually making a plan and executing on it was as far-fetched to me as getting to outer space, like the background of a “follow your dreams” poster that makes you pretty sure you’re going to be landing amongst the stars, not the moon. I’d become as cynical as the old grumpy teachers who I used to daydream in front of.
I’ve decided to step onto the greener side of the grass. If you’d like to follow me follow my dream of launching a travel & exploration website, then you better walk a bit faster. Let’s launch big in 2019 to help you and your favorite group text enjoy the best travel hints and hikes, recommendations and reviews. Follow my personal posts here for ideas along the way, and follow Touristy Tourist for creative lessons in getting lost.
Signed,
Mel