Friday, January 2, 2009

My Hemingway Phase



We are two days into 2009. Like everyone else, that also means it's time to renew old promises and create some new ones as we move through another 365 days.

I am in what I consider my Hemingway Phase. Longing to climb mountains and fight wars, every young man goes through this adrenaline-induced stage of existence the author's name conjures up.

I am not saying I want to drink myself into an early grave or anything like that. But I do want to experience new worlds and find interesting new life missions. He also surrounded himself with some extraordinary and extraordinarily eccentric individuals, including Salinger and F. Scott, another attribute I would like to emulate.

After it all, Hemingway proudly and stupidly threw himself into the darkness not knowing which step would be his last.

In 2009, that is where I am headed. Into the unknown.

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