Just do dumb shit. No really. As Long as you don't die, loose too much money, or don't kill anyone. DO IT!

 This may or may not be common knowledge but one of my favorite writers/human beings in the world is Maya Angelou. She is wise, principled, patient, and more together than Warren Buffets finances. She is responsible for one of my ALL TIME favorite phrases. 

"WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS YOU WHO THEY ARE. . .BELIEVE THEM"

 It means that people show us their natures through their actions and we can ignore it or we can believe it and remove them from our lives or keep them around. People have numerous chances to show us whether they are in our lives to help us or hurt us. Often people are around for a short amount of time and we keep them around for longer than they need to be because we are afraid of change. We are used to a habit even if it is a bad habit. Maya has dozens of sayings that make her a bonafide professor prophet. So I sat back and I thought to myself how did she get to be so fucking together?

I started by reading her autobiographical texts and I learned that Ms. Angelou wasn't always so smart or together. In fact she had many moments in her life where I imagine she looked up and literally said "How. Did. I. Get. Here?!".

It is at THAT moment that you sit and reflect and come up with some sort of really thoughtful and astute answer. So after one to many "How the shitballs did I get here" moments I'm sure Ms. Angelou was like let me go ahead and have a seat in this hear thinking chair 'cause I need a good change. So gradually she started to look for answers to her whys before she acted on her questions. BRILLIANT. She looked on the Chaos in her life with a new sense of dilligence and focus and decided to make a conscious change that would take her life to a whole new level. ** puts on thinking face**

 HOWEVER. Every lesson she learned while living wrong made all of the wisdom she gained the all the more worthwhile. It's ideal that we do stupid things in our youth and we enjoy the lessons from those missteps in our old age. That is exactly what life is for. We need those experiences. We crave those mistakes. We were built to fall and get up and fall again. When we are old we can tell the stories of our pirate days and our times on the road. Your bucket list should NOT be several pages long. Follow your dreams and see if they lead you to your destiny. 

Whatever that may be. Let it be one with little regrets for journeys not taken. For loves not chased. For moments not enjoyed and for fears we let hold us back. We can be heroes in our own lives if we just choose to brave enough to live our best existence, accidents, mistakes, hard times and all.