19th of July | *1758* words | *9* minutes to read


> this is part of a [30 day writing project](https://steemit.com/steemit/@dragosroua/i-m-starting-a-30-days-writing-challenge-interested) i’m taking part in, you should check it out, so many awesome posts. if not stated some of my photos are from [unsplash](http://unsplash.com) a free site for images, also you can grab some cool images from [nomad.pictures](http://nomad.pictures) a site i run with @dayleeo to get pictures out of the camera roll and onto the web

https://cl.ly/ldUa/sebastien-marchand-9747.jpg

> well the 30 day challenge journey is nearly at an end, the road demands me to travel further and in some ways this will be a good junction point to look at the last thirty days and how we can change things up, being accountable, especially in my later years gives me a good anchor point remind of the things i’ve not yet done and a good wake up call to execute.

30 days, four weeks, 1 block of twelve that make up the year, the birthday, the christmas, the summer, the seasons. they all fly by such a rate that you forget how long ago things happen and double take and look in the mirror searching for previous incarnations of your former self, awake time travellers moving faster and faster towards the day of the great reset - i often feel a great requirement to live out that life as full as possible, sometimes resources allow, sometimes not. but it’s all part of the course you are meant to take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvGHSvfnlsQ

(btw, steemit is the woman in the van and tom hanks, new steemian!)

> i’ve had a few times in my life where things have been mapped out like this for me, what to follow and why, like the white bunny in matrix, going the other way instead of accepting the default, turning down the deal knowing that it would ultimately sever the time around a location or group of supposed friends, i chase down change when apathy becomes to great, when i become a caricature in my own mind of a person i think i am and look in the mirror and see that i am not.

https://cl.ly/ld0l/davide-foti-38548.jpg

## you see the mountains call to me next
yep, the mountains. 

relatively fresh air, high perspectives (even thou i’m kinda scared of heights), sweeping drone footage montages, big fat tyre questing through unknown streets, shared co-working, regular travel between points, lots of blogging, building a suite of custom applications for the on the go media maker. it’s all ahead. i can sense it, i’m forcing it to come to the fore, it’s on my mind everyday, my commitment is clearly on that.

you see we have all the right elements, me and @dayleeo to make it, the right level of intent, the right amount of compassion, the right amount of creativity, cross over skills, a creative yearning to make, to be in transition, to achieve those goals, i’ve never know something so right and not right for just right now. just right, moving forward. because that’s all we really have, going back, reflecting back won’t fix the now. the now doesn’t care for your memories or grieving. the now wants action, the future demands loyalty.

it’s all mapped out, the breakfast, the ride to the co-working, the go-pro style cameras capturing from the spokes of the bike, the chats on the balcony fuelled with local cheap plonk acquired from runs to the next town over lidl. the wireless cctv camera system hooked up to the 100mb fibre connection, the green screen set area, the functional studio apartment. the power lunches with other creatives talking about their projects and bitching about clients and education, the early evening bbq and wine nights — i’ve got it all mapped out like i’ve already been there. maybe i have, maybe i am already there in a parallel version of this life.

https://cl.ly/lcYv/denys-nevozhai-184452.jpg

i’ve never really had a clear plan for how to get to where i want to be. i’m cool with that. i can’t stand the notion of a just connects to b. that sounds like the worst journey ever, linear, expected. the start off time and the arrival time, ignoring the scenery and life that exists between the two points, maybe that’s why people care little for the climate between the two when we travel in the car, plane or trains. just a live windowed instagram story version of the world to spark the wunderlust component in our brains and live within it eternal without reflection of the damage we do by not being among it, doing our little bit to help offset the damages we do to the soil, the layering of salvos of concrete sucking up heat.

i’ve taken many a wrong path, ended up at place without no street sign, flicking lights and shadows of people propping up a potential short term future, i’ve stayed for a while or driven right past, i’ve had to reverse and i’ve had to swerve but i’ve always found the road when i’ve been driving off road for a while. you can take the short roads, the cut through paths, you can end up at places with vistas like you can’t believe exist and wonder if anyone before you ever was there. but you always know a road exists out there if you let it, far from any technological gps route. it always calls, it always wants you to visit and it never judges you for the roads you already travelled.

## started at the bottom now we beer
today, is a chapter in the upside down for sure, normally friday i’ve gotta pick up daughter today, early night and early morning to get her sorted and packed off to school, i won’t get her at the weekend which makes me kinda sad because it messes with my head a little because of routine but i know it’s for the best to maintain her routine especially with mum with a mad week, just doing my bit. wish my bit was more intensive, but i can only do what i can do with what i have.  tomorrow will be a little different for the majority of the day and i will feel like i jumped through a time tunnel — i’m certain that friday will feel a little weird too, i must ask actually about friday, maybe i can have her for a few hours not to make it weird for both of us.

i bought three beers last week, three for a fiver - i’ve polished off two of them in the early evening, first time, last night and i’ll probably have that one tomorrow night, it’s been a while since i was the guy that went to the pub with my iPad and wireless keyboard and had lunch and a beer, kinda miss it, kinda miss doing that with @dayleeo — i’ll never forget the times we were buying cider in the JUG load, hilarious times, great times.

times that will repeat again. soon.

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