Perspective

Change.  Ironically it is the one guaranteed constant in our lives.  Right from the get-go you're probably thinking that you've clicked on the incoherent ramblings of a mad woman - and maybe you're right.  But, change is the reason for every word you are now reading, a completely new perspective as if donning a pair of tinted specs...

I had all the usual dreams - I want to be a (insert ballerina, motor mechanic {yes, tomboy phase}, actress, mad scientist).  By the end of secondary school it was perfectly plain that I could not grasp mathematics and chose not to entertain the idea of English so the 'Mad Scientist' career won the toss.  

We are taught these days to be independent and unique, and to stand for our own values.  Yet our actions speak louder than words and not everybody ends up changing the world in Steve Jobs-esque style.  I would love to say that I am 'interesting and different', however with a meat-and-three-veg Kiwi upbringing, followed by the usual school>university>O.E.>9-5 employment, I would hesitate to say that my life has been newsworthy to anyone other than myself...

Since you may not know me from a bar of soap, my boyfriend of 2+ years has been called to the other side of Australia to work, leaving me to hold the fort in Melbourne where I work for a commercial diagnostic pathology company - your average 'respectable' corporate job.  We work to pay for bills and entertainment, and to fund a skydiving hobby.  Skydiving is an all-consuming and very addictive lifestyle, and nothing helps you focus on the really important facets of life like plummeting through the air at over 200kmh!  Many people see it as a mad way to spend a weekend (these individuals are referred to as 'whaffos' from here on), however it is a magnificent sport that defines true happiness for many, with wistful thoughts of freefall hijacking many a daydream.  It was the uptake of this particular hobby in fact, that has sparked this entire endeavour.

My change in perspective recently has been centred around dreaming versus.  Humans are very good dreamers, yet how many of your dreams have you put into practise?  This year marked my 25th birthday, and while I do not see myself as over the hill, the event sparked a rush of determination to have a life of consequence.  So this is the purpose of beginning a written account of fighting the norm.  

During the absence of my significant other, I have been constructing visions.  I am determined that I will not spend my life like so many of my peers and elders working to save and save and save and depart this world with an un-ticked bucket list.  We have set a goal of December 2012 to begin living a 'bucket list life'.  Part of this for me is to document our progress, but the main agenda is to ensure my life is worth writing about.

The reason for this blog is to develop my conversational-style writing skills.  So yes, you are essentially my guinea pig.  I have never assumed delusions of grandeur in the literary scene, and to be honest, my first inkling that writing would be up my alley was as follows:

Setting is a second-hand bookshop in Fremantle, WA with my boyfriend Adam.  I am poring over the travel biographies when I get called to the other side of the shop where Adam has found none other than a guide to drawing Anime pornography.  I won't go into details but it would give a whole new dimension to an episode of Pokemon...

Naturally the adjoining section contains a selection of erotica novels with titles that would make Paris Hilton blush.  The covers are awash with bad perms, awkward embraces and titles such as "A Dangerous Infatuation".  Glancing at the blurb of a couple (I can offer no excuse as to why I gave them a second look), all I could notice were the grammatical inaccuracies, the implausible situations of the characters and the almost complete lack of creativity on the part of the many authors.  To the disgust of the geriatric gentleman walking behind me, I exclaimed in an outside voice, "I reckon I could write far better erotica than any of these trashy authors!"

So this rather unorthodox scenario has been my introduction into the world of the written word.  A blog to me was a more digestible concept than an erotica novel, however if I ever needed some quick cash, a visit back to my university town on a Saturday night would be sure to provide more than enough material for the first trilogy...

Blue skies,

Ez