A Venture Into The Unknown

You can look back on your life and pick out key dates and important moments which will be forever imprinted in your memory, for one reason or another. The events will have affected your life and caused significant change whether it be good or bad.

My reason for foraying in to the world of blogging is based on one of these experiences that changed everything for me. I want this blog to be a deposit of my experiences in life and something to look back on when my own memory starts to fade.

So let me set the scene for you, its 1:30am and I have just finished my shift from work and am walking down the street to my front door when my phone rings. Being a university student with  friends who like a drink or 40 it isn't so unusual to get a late night phone call which usually involves said friend on the other end speaking some language which I can only assume is some form of English.
However this call was from my home number, instantly I knew something wasn't right, its usually me calling home not the other way round and i never get a call this late at night. I pick up and its my Mum, she tells me that my Dad has had a heart attack and has been taken to hospital. I don't hear the rest of whats said for in that instant my head has become filled with a million thoughts and I go through a hundred different emotions.
For the life of me I can't remember all that went through my mind in that moment but what I remember clearly is how scared I felt, I couldn't remember being this scared since I was a small child and  that was because  I'd had a nightmare that i was being chased my mushroom men who were after my stash of shiny Pokemon cards (i will have to explain this one one day).
Luckily for us it was only a minor heart attack and Dad has since made a full recovery.

Though there were some big changes after my Dad's heart attack. At home it was the motivation for the gym routine to begin again and healthier living to start fully, hopefully this time it will last more than the week it did last time. It also helped bring our family closer together, we weren't taking each other for granted as much, not now that we had come so close to losing it all. The biggest change for me was one that couldn't be seen, for Dad's heart attack had caused my view of the world to change. Dad's heart attack really hit home and shown me personally just how fragile our lives are and how quickly it could just all end. It also helped open my eyes to just how big the world really is, most of us will spend the majority of our lives living in our bubbles but there is so a whole world out there waiting to be discovered. 

Now my bubble didn't completely burst that night but it got a hole in it and through the gap I caught a glimpse of how much there is out there to see, do, taste, smell, hear and all experiences that are there to be had. It's true what they say that "the only thing stopping you is you" because I am not one who believes in destiny or fate, I believe our life is on our own hands and that if we want to go out and do something than we can. I know I probably wont be able to do all the things that I want to in life, i'd like to think it's because life is too short to fit it all in. We live in a big world and the traveler inside me is dying to see as much of it as possible, so hopefully before long this blog will be one filled with my various adventures in exotic lands.

I leave you with one thing, let your bubble burst.

So until next time,

Ash out.