To Infinity and Beyond

Dear Frankenstein.

In the Photo from left to right.: Me, Niell Lynch, Michael Douglass, Chris Heyns, Peiter Swanepoel and Zuan Pelser.

On the 6 of March 2015 I was invited for a hitchhike Challenge from Krugersdorp in Gauteng (1 province in South Africa) to Amanzimtoti‎ Kwazulu Natal (another province in South Africa) we where raising awareness money for a orphanage called House Jade ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/House-Jade/232197633568455 ). We were 3 teams of 2 people in a team, each team had 4 objectives and R200 (“Rand” or “R” is South Africa’s Money) to spend on our travels of more or less 630km (404miles). Our average speed was 50km (31miles) per hour. In my 12 hour 40 minutes this is what I’ve learned.

1. To start any journey or adventure we have to start
2. “Just keep swimming” –Dory from finding Nemo- Never stop moving. We got to a point in the race where we were dropped off at a petrol station and for 1 and an half hours no one picked us up. By standing still and not moving we got demotivated.
3. It doesn’t matter in what we were traveling in, it just mattered that we were traveling in the right direction. It doesn’t matter what you are doing in life, just make shore you’re moving in the right direction.
4. There is no good reason to give up!!!
5. By hitchhiking we gave people the opportunity to enter our life’s and by entering our life we entered there’s.
6. In the Challenge of hitchhiking and in life there are no winners, only stories of people that got to the end.
7. If we only traveled with our R200 we would only have gotten 30km (18miles) maybe 50km (31miles) away from home, but because we traveled with passion and motivation we got 630km (404miles) away from home. Money has limits and passion has none.
8. In our adventure we had a goal but we enjoyed the journey.
9. To Infinity and Beyond –Buzz Lightyear- After finishing a hike of 630km (404miles) with little to no money we can do anything!!!!

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The winners of the Hitchhiking challenge where Pieter Swanepoel and Zuan Pelser.  Well done!!! Winning Photo is below.

What I’ve learned on my adventure

Dear Frankenstein

It has been 3 to 4 months on my new adventure and this is what I’ve learned.

1. At the start of an adventure you will question your decision for going on the adventure more than one’s!!
2. It will feel lonely and if your friends and family have forgotten you. (this is not true, it is only a feeling)
3. Making friends only come easy if you’re living in a sitcom.
4. People and culture are different even if it is in the same country.
5. Weird people will give you adventure colour.
6. Getting lost is part of finding new ways to enjoy the adventure.
7. Not a lot of people will understand way you are on the adventure
8. A lot of people will tell you that they wish they had the courage to go on an adventure.
9. There is a reason why Adventure starts with the first letter of the alphabet.
10. If after 3 months you adventure isn’t moving forward you might be settling down.

Today is not that bad of a day.

Dear Frankenstein

Today is not that bad of a day.

A couple of old friend got in contact with me to show support in my new adventure on YouTube. It was no shock that they know I am thinking of starting a YouTube channel, the real shock was that they read my blog!!

Last night was a night of second guessing. Thinking that maybe it is easier to play life safe and that it is better not to take the adventure on YouTube. The fear of judgment, rejection and even achieving success was things that went through my mind.

Today is a good day. The more YouTube appeals to me the more people from unexpected places shows me support. Today I have the strength to see it through.

YouTube was not one of my dreams; it is an unexpected adventure that not many people are taking.

My unexpected adventure is YouTube, whatever your unexpected adventure is take it head on because not a lot of people will take the unexpected adventures.

Survive

Dear Frankenstein

Dear Frankenstein

It is the year 2015 and we are already in the second month of this year. It just came to me that seconds turns to minutes and minutes to hours, how quickly hours can turn into days and days to weeks, before we know it weeks are months and if we don’t watch it the month will turn to another year and then we are in 2016.

What I am trying to say is time is short and I don’t want one more second to turn into another year I did nothing greats with my life.

I hear it more and more as time go by that people are just surviving. They speak of just surviving at work, financial, physically or even emotionally.

If we survive second after second it is easy to see how one second of survival can turn into a week and before we know…

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Survive

Dear Frankenstein

It is the year 2015 and we are already in the second month of this year. It just came to me that seconds turns to minutes and minutes to hours, how quickly hours can turn into days and days to weeks, before we know it weeks are months and if we don’t watch it the month will turn to another year and then we are in 2016.

What I am trying to say is time is short and I don’t want one more second to turn into another year I did nothing greats with my life.

I hear it more and more as time go by that people are just surviving. They speak of just surviving at work, financial, physically or even emotionally.

If we survive second after second it is easy to see how one second of survival can turn into a week and before we know it another year past witch we just survived.

I don’t want my life to be one of just surviving. I want my life to be one of hope. If time goes by and I just survived it will be try to leave this world in a better place then I found it.

Do I lead or follow???

Dear Frankenstein

Do I lead or do I follow?

I moved away from my community of Friend and Family to try something new. It’s been 3 months and things are going okay.

The community of friend I left behind was a community of great leaders and they all have the ability to change the world.

One of the problems that came up when I was surrounded by great leaders is I start no longer living in my natural strength of leadership but hiding behind the other leaders surrounding me.  It is easy to hide your true potential when you are surrounded by other peoples potential.

What happened is I am alone, fair from home and there is little to no other leaders surrounding me. Do I embrace my natural leadership or do I search for someone that I can follow?

There is no shame in following a leader that is far greater and have more experience in leadership then you. It gives you the ability to learn, grow and better yourself to be like or even better then your leader.

There is a shame in being a leader and not living to your full potential. For you are taking knowledge and experience from younger leaders.

We only have a limit to the time we have in our community. Will we live our true leadership out to better it or will we hide behind other leaders.

Idea

Dear Frankenstein

I’ve been playing around with the idée of starting a youtube channel, but I am a little scared.

The idée of a youtube channel does not scary me, the idée of turning the idée into reality is the thing that scares me.

A lot of other questions come up when I am thinking of starting it, like… How will watch it? Is it something my mom will watch? Will my friends like it? What will the world say? Will I like my cannel?

The answer to most of these questions is…. I don’t know?

If I don’t try I will never know, also if I don’t try I’ll never fail…..

These stupid little questions make me doubt my idée. I think doubt or to second guess the idée or chooses we make is not always a bad thing.  It means we are giving thought to a problem or choose we are about to make.

BUT

To doubt or second guess our ability to complete the idée that is were the problem lies.

We have the ability to be great. We must just believe it…

Kidnapped

Dear Frankenstein

It is 8 days into 2015 and I haven’t written anything….  So what have you missed???

I was kidnapped!!!!

It al started on the 3de of January 2015, it was a Saturday. It was the best, worst, greatest 36 hours of my live.

How can a kidnapping be great?

The kidnappers were 3 great Friends of mine. That reminded me what I’ve left at home.

They took me cheese and wine tasting; we went to see a monument of our Afrikaans language, I stood in front of Cape Town’s City Hall, The same hall were Mandela gave a speech when he was released from prison and again just before he was elected President, I got a picture of a peace of the Berlin Wall that is standing in Cape Town. All these things I almost had to do bear feet because my shoes broke as we started our walk through Cape Town.

As the 36 hour past I watched my kidnappers drive off without me, I wanted to go with them.

As my adventure started away from home I never thought the adventure would be so lonely.

But the adventure is not over. So I will continue trying to make new Friend, better my writing and enjoy the adventure that we call life.

The death of 2014 and the birth of 2015

Dear Frankenstein

2014 is at an end…. Germany won the world cup and Ebola almost took over the world. 2014 was a year of great joy but also great sadness. It was a year of making new friends and saying “see you later” to old ones. It was a year of opportunities taken and opportunities missed. It was a year of families saying “Hello” to new arrivals and “Bye” to old veterans.

2014 was a good year, it was a bad year, it was a glad year, and it was a sad year.

2014 is at the end of its life. Never to be relived but always remembered.

2014 was and wasn’t my year!!

2015 is at the door. The year that we will try to changes the world….

…Again….

—MERRY CHRISTMAS—-

I want to be…….

Dear Frankenstein

I want to be a man that feeds the hungry and cloths the naked. I want to be a man that makes time to listen. I want to be a man that speaks out if he sees injustice. I want to be a man that is loved and respected by his family, Friends and the community. I want to be a man that not only talks about changing the world but actually change the world.

In short I want to be better.

We all have the ability to change our family, friends, Community and hopefully one day the world.

What I’ve learned these 2 months away from my family and friends is…… There are little to no more good people….

I think the world needs more good people for with good people Hope always follows and we need Hope today more then ever….

I want to bring Hope, I want to be a Better Person.

What to you want to be?