The prupose of the Watchmen

So I watched the Watchmen the other day and as I was leaving the theater I was struck with a dilemma. I don’t know how to feel about this movie. I left that theater feeling sadness and passion at the same time. Let me describe the premise of the movie a little bit, Basically the movie follows these so called super heroes, and there lives as heroes and their Alter egos. The movie’s main theme is the Question of how Super are Super Heroes. In other words how far are these super Heroes willing to go to exact justice, to bring about peace and as a Hero can you really defend justice and be just at the same time. I have to say that I found this part of the movie really intriguing. I think the reason I felt sad leaving this movie is that it leaves you with a very depressing portrayal of humanity. In the end even the Heroes can’t surpass their human deficiencies to bring about peace and Justice. Which brings me to the main reason why I’m writing this. The movie left me with a question and an answer to a question I’ve had for many years in my life. First the question: What is the propose of life our more specifically what is my purpose in life and what do I want to make my purpose? For so long I have been searching for the details to that answer rather than the answer it self. I can’t speak for anyone else but I think the purpose of life is to make an impact. Every one in the end wants to feel like they lead a life of significance. Why do Super Heroes become Heroes, to make an impact of good. Why do villains become villains to make an impact. For me it comes down to this there is only two ways to make an impact in life, through Love or through Hate. I’m remind of the bible in this aspect, 1st Corinthians 13, Its the chapter about love. This is basically how Paul describes it, you could be blessed beyond all else with gifts and abilities but with out love you will make no impact, you will have nothing. “And three things will remain … and the greatest of these is love.” However what this chapter doesn’t talk about is the power of hate. Hate can be washed away with time but it last for a very long time. Look at the Hatred of Hitler, He has made one of the greatest impacts this world has ever seen but he did it through hate and with time his impact may diminish but it won’t go away for a long long time if ever. Which is one of the aspect that the movie didn’t go into. I think that the writers, directors, whoever forgot that the whole Reason for someone becoming a Hero is to make an impact of good an impact of love because you don’t put your life on the line for someone with out that love. The problem I’ve always had with trying to figure out my purpose in life is how does someone go about making that impact? It wasn’t untill I thought about what kind of impact I wanted to make till I realized how to make that impact. You see for me I want to impact people through my creativity, I want someone to look at what I’ve created and feel love.  Just like when I go to a movie and get impacted by what I see on the screen.

And I’m back

OK So I’ve been doing my thing for the past couple of months and have finally gotten to the point were I need to write down some of my thoughts or my brain might explode. SO I guess I’m back.

the antiblogger becomes the iHiker

hey all so this will be my last post for a while on this blog but before you freak out. I’m going to be posting on my new blog at theihiker.blogspot.com. The reason for this is I can email post to that blog which will be easier for me to update so check out that one for all my AT adventures.

What a week it has been

So I have just been through my first week of hiking and what a week it has been. It started off on Tuesday we got to the parking lot on the mountain. Mount springer, which for anyone who cares is like 25 mins from dahlonega GA, the actual start for the trail turns out was a mile in the wrong direction from where we where. It seems weird to me that to start our adventure we either had to hike seven miles up to the “Start” of the trail or we had to hike a mile down and then back if we wanted to start from the actual “start.” The view was really awesome though, so we start our trek into our unknown adventure and it is a very sunny day for us. I think on the first day we went about 11 or 12 miles and it was like this for the next three days we made it about 30 miles in three days and ended our third at an outfitter store that is right on the trail that helps out through hikers like us. On our fourth day we were about 41 miles from springer, we were just starting our day by eating breakfast and packing up when the rain came. So we packed even faster trying not to get wet as we finished packing the thunder storm hit and I don’t mean there was a thunder storm like a couple miles away there was a thunder storm right over our heads. So here we are on top of a mountain with a metal frame in our bag and two metal poles in the rain with lighting striking all around us. If i wasn’t already soaking wet I might have noticed if I wet my pants or not but I was scared enough to have done so, but we prevailed and made it 7.2 miles to the nearest shelter. We decided to stay there for the night to dry off. A lot of other fellow through hikers had the same idea so we were soon joined by many others. Well eventually the rain stopped and we were actually able to start a fire and warm our some of our wet things. That night we slept in the shelter and what a night it was first off the wind would blow into the shelter to make it very cold in there and then the rats came and a lot of them came. I didn’t get a single wink of sleep that night. When we woke up in the morning all of the stuff we got dry had got really really wet again and it turned out that one of the other hikers had left all of their food in the shelter so that was why we had so many rats. We left that day in a depressed state, it was not a very good day to be on the AT. We were only going to go 8 miles but when we went that 8 miles we ended up in the clouds the foggy wet and cold clouds. So we decided that we were going to try and get out of them we ended up walking another 5 miles to a lower elevation that had the same clouds there. That night because it was night time when we got there we through out our tent, hung up our food and went instantly to our sleeping bags for warmth and comfort. the next day we only had to go 5.4 miles cause we were going into town and we were going to have a zero day the next day and boy was I ready to be off the trail everything I had was wet, I was sore all over and in a bad mood over the cold and rain. Those five miles were the longest I’ve ever walked through. What is interesting is when we got picked up to go into town it took us 20 mins to go what takes us a day to do. The funny thing however is having been off the trail for a day and half, I am ready to go back. The reason for this is the community and adventure you get on the trail. I have meet more interesting and nice people in a week then I meet in the previous three months. All of the people through hiking on the trail are willing to go out of there way to help out other fellow hikers. Take that and add it with the adventure of each new day, each new unknown day walking in the woods; and despite the rain, and the cold, and the tiredness and the stuff you miss when you leave a town, you have one of the greatest treks of my life. I still don’t know if I will finish the trail but if I don’t I’m not so sad about that because it isn’t about the end and the beginning it about all the middle part that is along the way. The one thing I will say that I wish was different was that I wish all of my friends and family could come along with me because I do very much miss you all. Anyway with that I have to wrap up and go to bed, it could be another long day on the trail.

Putting peanut butter in a bag

I did something the other day that i haven’t ever done before. After arriving to Georgia and hanging out for a day we got straight into planning for our trip. You might ask well what would we have left to plan shouldn’t we already be ready. So here the thing on the trail you buy a lot of your food in towns but you also have to mail yourself some food about two and half months of food that has to fit in box that aren’t really designed to hold food. So for the past week we have been staying indoors trying to cram every little bit of food and supplies that we need for our trip. I have to admit that it can be rather daunting and i think the are were a few time in which I lost my patience for the whole thing, but back to my new first time ever experience we decided that we would want peanut butter while we were on the trail so last night or the night before that we decided to try and bag peanut butter. I don’t know if you have ever tried this and If you have then you my know what it was like but the whole experience was a bit brutal, because first you have to stir up the peanut butter so that it mixes well and stirring peanut butter isn’t very easy you then have to try and divide it evenly well you can’t just take a measuring  cup and measure it out cause it doesn’t go neatly into the cup it kind of stays half in and half out on the sides. You then have to try and transfer it to the bag with out getting it all over everything because peanut butter isn’t easy to clean up. then while trying to put it in the bag you got to make sure that you don’t smear it all over the bag trying to get it in there. Now take that and do it twelve times and it makes for an interesting two hours. Anyway I’m just glad that we are almost done with our planning and should be on the trail on Tuesday. Also in our planning we worked out our estimated time of arrival for the towns we are going through and have the addresses for the places we are mailing food to ourselves. If you are interested in keeping track of where we plan to be or maybe you want to even send us something I’ve attached the ETA and mail info to this post. Also on a side note some of the places we are mailing ourselves food have two addresses with those we are planning to send ourselves food  to the post offices when we can.

Our Mail Drops

Our ETA

The virtue of patience

So I’m on my way to being on the Trail but before I can get there I had to go through a little trial. Thursday kathryn and I were all set to head out to Georgia. My brother was kind enough to take us to the airport and we got there early enough to get through security. That was actually the easy part. So there we are at the airport waiting for the plane and then out of the blue we hear our flight is delayed an hour and a half. So I was a little upset at first but then I realized I didn’t need to rush I had the time to wait. Little did I know how much I would regret this. We get to Philly at 7:50 our flight to atlanta leaves at 7:50 so we were a bit worried but we learned that our flight is delayed a bit so we rush for 15 mins to get to the plane. We get there in time to watch our plane leave so we are out of breath and out of a flight. We talk to one of the clerks and get scheduled for stand by on the next flight. Well that flight didn’t work so well we were let all the way up to the door and then we find out that there isn’t enough seats. We have to wait for the next one which we get passed over for. So at this point we are hopelessly discouraged we decide that we are going to talk to costumer service. We wait in line for about 45 mins to find out that because we were delayed because of mechanical issues we should been put on the next available flight. The guy tells that he’s sorry and then puts us on the next available flight at 8:45pm. So that means we have to stay at the airport for 12 hours. The longest 12 hours that I have ever been through. We finally get to the time when our flight is and then It gets delayed an hour and a half to make a long story shorter we got into atlanta at 12am. So we had been traveling for 24 hours and all I can say about the whole thing is that it gave me a lot of pateince.

The Appalachian Trail

So I’m starting over with this blog thing. I have a lot of things to say with little time to say and none of the right words to use to say it but in my life right now am currently going on an adventure into the woods for six months. I am going to be hiking the Appalachian trail or the AT as we in the biz like to call it. So I’m have decided that I’m going to be using this blog as way to keep people posted on my progress and also let people know about my random musings. I hope for this to be a life changing event and also hope to be able to share with you all through this blog.

So know into the details of my adventure. I haven’t quite started yet. I’m going to be leaving for Georgia on the 13th and after some planning. We hope to be on the trail on the 24th.