6 in the morning. Again. These trips to the city have me on the verge of snapping against anyone who gets on my bad side.
A few years ago, when I was working at a normal job, I used to wake up at 5 am to walk my dogs, take a shower, get dressed and then drive for an hour to arrive to my office at 6:45 and then work for 11 hours, just to have to drive back home for one and a half hours, sometimes two hours. And that's when I bought a car, before that i just had to add one more hour per trip to my schedule.
I was unhappy. Even though I loved the job, given the circumstances around said job made me the most unhappy I recall being in my adult life.
Well, I may be softening or perhaps I'm getting old, but having to do these wake up at 5 an to take the two hour bus at 6 am, twice a week to get to the city reminds me too much of those sad days where I was a corporate life slave.
Talk about an introduction, huh? Well, I'm not here to whine about petty stuff like this. Its just that I've taken this freaking bus too many times and all of them I say hey, this could be a good time to write my thoughts about random subjects, just like my previous posts thoughts from an airport or thoughts from van in Nicaragua.
Freewriting from my cellphone while sitting on a Mexican bus. Seat number 2, in case you are wondering.
Oh yeah baby, I can markdown the crap out of my posts even on cellphone, cool right? I mean, not cool cool, but definitely rad, right?
I like free writing, you never know where it will take you. Sometimes you start a post thinking yeah, I'll speak about dolphins and how fat my girlfriend has gotten and then bam,you end up analyzing the social implications and behavioural psychology of the modern euroasian negroid that some Jew predicted will populate Europe in the future. <- I have no idea what this is or means, I'm just trying to sound clever and to prove my point with freewriting.
You see. One of the basic lines you have to follow when freewriting is to not stop. Don't stop to investigate about certain subject or to think of what you are writing makes sense. On the other hand, you have to write about what you know and have experienced, otherwise you'll end up writing complete bullshit or plain lies or, worst case scenario, you'll end up showing your readers you have no idea of what you're talking about,so let's avoid those predictions by these EU dude who made those statements in the 1920's and let's just stick to what I know about:
Interaction. You know what I hate about my Steemit behaviour? I struggle too much with the reply comments feature. Don't get me wrong, I read every comment I get on my posts, that's not the problem, the problem is that 80% of those comments are the real deal, those replies are the shit. We'll thought and meaningful shit you know? The kind of comments you want to reply to. Problem is, I get at least 20 of them on every post, sometimes 5 times that amount. And you know what? The cool part of steemit is all about personal interaction. I don't want to get someone to reply to those comments as if I was an Instagram hot blonde with thousands of followers, I want to be the one replying to each comment I get. But then, reading and replying to 20 we'll thought comments is about 1 hour or work. Which I should have, which I should make time to answer all of them. I mean, Eric what the fuck? You make triple digits on your posts and can't answer those people who take the time to comments on your posts.
Yeah, I know I should. And I think I'm going to make room for that, after all I preach and preach about interaction and how important it is to succeed here.
Believe me, it's not that I don't want to reply. If you've been reading my posts, right now I'm going through some hectic times - hence the twice a week two hour bus drive to the city - but hopefully these days will be over soon. If not, well I think I can use these hours to reply to the comments I get. Deal? Deal.
I miss having adventures
But not those adventures your friends from Facebook write about. You know the kind: OMG, first day at this new pharma job, let the adventure begins! (Add picture of her Starbucks cup in the front scene with the building where she'll spend 60 hours a week as background of the picture). Or those Instagram adventures like: Hell yeah, hiking with my friends this totally impossible trail. It took us 45 minutes with no breaks to take pictures! HASH TAG NoPainNoGain AdventureWithMaBoys HikingEspecialist.
Ok that's pretty presumptuous from me and a bit insulting, but those are not adventures, at least not from for me.
The hard part of having true adventures, is that you get addicted to them and not getting bored with a normal life becomes hard.
After snorkeling with nurse sharks, climbing volcanoes with no tour guide, hitchhiking wherever you go, camping in highways in the middle of nowhere, jumping from cliffs (small) inside canyons, swimming in croc waters, sleeping in wild island full of snakes, camping in private property islands, crashing a park because you got lost in a new city, conning your way to avoid paying for stuff and and dating European girls, you really get sort of addicted to adrenaline.
If you are an police dude, all the previous ilegal things I bragged about are not true and only a naive person would take them as real. If you are a normal person, I was joking about dating European girls, that's not an adrenaline segregator.
The point is, I crave adventure and I need it soon or I'll start doing stupid things to get my fix.
I hope I can get them soon. If you can send good vibes all the way to Mexico do my paperwork is done soon, I would really appreciate it.
This post is proving to be very long and you probably stopped reading so I'm going to make it fun. If your comment includes the word banana I will vote on it with a four percent weight, that will show me you at least read all the way to here, but include it discreetly ok? Ok.
The world cup is coming. I'm excited
As most men, I have an animal side or caveman side. You know, that side that makes us be competitive and engage on pissing contests about pretty much everything; that side that renders us helpless when it comes to prove you are alpha enough to get the girl. That side that makes us like sports sometimes a bit too much.
I'm not a hardcore fan of football (or soccer if you use imperial units) but when it's about the world cup, I think it's safe to agree that most of us become zombified to the idea of your national team measuring dicks with another country's national team, in order to win and to get to measure them again against other team, and so on.
I like the world cup concept and since 2006, I've been wanting to attend one. Not just because of the matches but also because of the cultural exchange that takes place during that month where this sport joins nation's; I want to attend a world cup because I know it will change my worldview and I know I will learn a lot from this sociocultural event. This is more than just a sports tournament, this the biggest mass event.
It's been one hour already since I started writing this. I don't know if there are rules about the time it should take to freewriting but my old man eyes are getting tires of focusing while driving on a bumpy road (thank God 3rd world) so I'm gonna stop.
If you read this, please let me know what you think of the style. Was it hard to keep reading or was it simple to just keep eating the words? I've been told my style is easy and fun to read but that was on my adventure posts, I'm not so sure the style is appealing when I'm just rambling around different topics.
Wow, 1,500 and I can't shut up. I'll stop now. Thanks for reading.
Remember, be here now.
Oh yeah, that's how I used to sign off my posts, I wonder when I stopped and why. I guess I started reading it everywhere and I may have thought I wasn't as cool and hipster as I wanted to be (joke, I wouldn't want to be a hipster even if my sanity depended on it).
According to busy.org, this is an 8 minute post but I bet I will get a few "nice post" comments within the first few minutes, meaning they didn't read the post, earning a flag for being spammers. Gosh those spammers.
Anyway, see ya amigos.
Well banana first of all. 😂
I don't watch football much either whether World Cup or not but if my country is playing, I'll be showing support.
Freewrite is awesome. I don't think there is a limit to writing freewrite. I love the way you flowed from one random thought to the other and still maintained coherence. So it was a good one. Not everyone can managed that. But you could time yourself next time, so as to limit the length of your are so bothered.
Stay safe @anomadsoul
Well I wasn't bothered that much, but damn now that I'm reading it there are so many autocorrect mistakes like we'll instead of well haha.
I mean, I think I could freewrite for more time, but Im highly doubtful someone would read 3k words. Not in this economy (lol).
Thanks for the style feedback my friend :)
😂 who would read 3000 words in this economy. Everyone is maximizing their time.
You tried though. I write a lot on my phone and I know how it can be sometimes.
Your posts are pretty fresh and I venture to read them because sometimes I don't know what lol will bring me I know they are long but they always give me a smile. By the way, the banana thing made me laugh a lot. Don't stop writing, we love your post and everything you teach us with them. Greetings from Venezuela @anomadsoul
In fact, it is an adventure to read your post, because there is so much variety in the topics that some people should be interested in, you can start talking about the solar system and end up saying that you stepped on a banana while walking around the city, in this case I am a sports fan and I share with you the interest in following the World Cup games because there are a series of emotions where each team seeks to win in order to maintain the honor of the country they represent, the selection of my country has not yet had the opportunity to be in a World Cup but I hope it will be soon to celebrate in a big way....
Hey bro, De verdad que fue larga tu publicación, pero te imaginas que tuvieras a alguien escribiendo todos tus pensamientos durante 2 horas?. Primero creo que quizás me daría vergüenza (si todos se enteraran de lo que pasa por mi mente) de que sepan son un critico de todo, o peor aún no pienso en nada interesante. En segundo lugar estaría nervioso durante ese periodo intentando que todo lo que esa persona escribiera sea algo interesante como los problemas sociales anunciados hace 50 años por un profeta judío.
De paso, lo larga de la publicación sería hago así:
tu publicación*mi respuesta= larguisimaaaa.
Pero en líneas generales de vez en cuando esta bien escribir lo que se te venga a la mente, total, esto es una red social. Si alguien no le gusta lo que escribes simplemente que siga bajando a la siguiente publicación.
Para la próxima montada en el bus, compra un kilo de banana o de cambur como le decimos en Venezuela, para que comas algo en el camino.
Un abrazo y bendiciones.
Pd: También estoy esperando con mucha expectativa el mundial.
Dear friend eric your writings are an adventure, without a doubt that I share with you that feeling of wanting to live an adventure to clear the mind and get away from the office and the monotony that implies, without a doubt that the world cup captures my national team of Football has never been able to be in this tournament but that does not stop me from sitting in the couch turning on the TV and eating a banana while I enjoy that sport that I like so much, I hope to read you soon, greetings @anomadsoul.
@luisveco88 where are you from and who are you rooting for in the world cup?
I'm from Venezuela friend, I feel a certain sympathy for Brazil, since it is a neighboring country and their football is very pleasing to the eye, that is why I will support them in this world :)
As an amateur writer, enjoy your free style a lot, where you approach different subjects in a very fluid way, without a doubt that I loved, the banana mmm made me open my appetite, no doubt that it provokes at this time of the morning, greetings friend and you can get an adventure full of adrenaline.
Hahaha thanks for reading all the post! And yes, the key I think is to be fluent and to let it flow as it wants, not as you want, let the words write themselves :) @mariam007
LOL
I love your Banana idea. :)
Hahaha I like that you read all of my post!
I wish my English and my writing skill is good enough to write 8 min. LoL
That's some freewrite there, one thing about freewrite is...it is straight from the heart. No worrying about much formatting, research and been too correct.
Freewriting about stuffs you know, you will definitely connect with some people that have the same interest who will be like 'uhum uhum'.
About the world cup, it definitely doesn't get more massive with so much fun. I promise i will surely attend a world cup before i die even if it means selling my father's house with the knowledge of others. But i will love an Africa (South Africa...i know), somewhere deep inside Africa where everything is all black and a lot of banana to eat.
You made me 'waste' five minutes (more now, typing this ) of my life on a freewrite but it is worth it.
Thats the dream man, to attend a world cup before dying. I can imagine a world cup being celebrated in Congo or Cote d Ivore, that would be awesome but I think with the South africa world cup so close, its not going to happen soon :(
Lol we don´t waste time, we invest it :P
Hi, I’m from Thailand. I have no idea about World Cup because it’s not my favorite game. By the way, I also like to write while traveling on public transportation too, but for me is by BOAT not BUS ...he he.. as living on an island. Another thing I would like to tell you is... it’s good to have breakfast before traveling by bus, it will help your brain works well for free writting and BANANA is an easy and healthy food for you, especially if you put yogurt, raisins and honey on top! It’s easy and yummy...Just like this ! 🍌😇
@bbkastro oh wow so you write while going on a boat? Talk about being seasick haha I actually want to visit Thailand very soon, I can´t wait to explore South east Asia!! Those bananas look yummie :P
@anomadsoul He he, yes, I write on boat sometimes. Unfortunately I don’t get seasick, just seeing another people sick so don’t really know how they feel.. It’s difficult to write without your own experience, maybe only when somebody puke on you and I hope it will never happen 😂 For sure, there are so many new adventures for you in South East Asia, you will have many topics to write so WELCOME ! and the banana yogurt is super nice ! you must try 😉 ☺️
nice post anemodsoal, I upvoteLol, so you basically did a free write about free writing as well, cos I actually lost count of the the number of areas you touched in there. Now I'm definitely going to do a free write, looks like something I could do all day.
And yes!!!!..... It's world cup Amigos!!!!!!
P.S. I've been steeming it since forever on my cellphone, "markdowning" the shit out of everyone. 😂😂😂
Beat that
You should try it! Some of the best ideas come when you let your mind wander around all these different topics :D I got like 4 different post ideas just from writing this post lol
Remember, be here now. - I have said that for a very long time. I even read the book, which was hard to get through but the sentiment is perfect. I too like to get out in the world. I travel as much as possible, but even at home, my family and I get out as much as possible to experience as much as possible. I also used to post everything on facebook. You have to keep up that facebook profile, right. I have long since stopped. I have not been back to fb in a really long time and I don't miss it at all. Now, I find joy in writing. I used to be a travel writer but stopped altogether. I just couldn't continue but now that I am on Steemit, I love writing again. So, now, I get to get out, travel, camp, hike, Jetski, etc... and them come home and write about it and get to experience it all over again. Steemit was a breath of fresh air when I needed it most.
In any job one is doing should also give happiness. I've found happiness in steemit, I love steemit.
I'm also a football fan. I'm super excited the world cup is coming and my country is playing in the world cup. My country's national team even have a friendly later today with Athletico Madrid
I'm sooo going into freewriting
Sometimes some of us need a way to express ourselves and freewriting seems to help you purge the pumped up emotions. As for me I go for long walks and try to think while at it. Tessa the World Cup is coming up. High hopes for my country. Hope we get to the finals this time. This was a really nice post @anomadsoul. I enjoyed the reading.
Nice post.
I hate you dear sir lord boss.
What? No flag? Is this what i get for reading for the whole 8 minutes???
No flag for you cause you did it on purpose, where's the fun in that (for me)?
Man, I can't wait for the world cup..
This is gonna be exciting..
Anyways
Nice post
I am always here to support yoy, before ypu were always in my post... I really miss it sir...
hah :)
I like the style of free writing. Sometimes I do the same thing when I go out on long journeys. I just start to write and I do not mind where the writing will take me :)
I like the writing. I enjoyed reading. Congratulations my friend
I miss an adventure too. Unfortunately, my exams session started and this will have to wait until 21 June when I finish. But then is going to be a crazy summer and nothing's gonna stop me 😊
Till then, I'm happy that I have lots of memories from my past travels and I'm happy to share them with whoever love such stories 😀
Great post good information!
hahahha okay was joking. Your freewrite is the shit! How do you even do it! i mean yea you kinda described it but still... how! if you know what i mean.
I really think that those who wants to know how to make it on Steem should take note from what you're saying and more importantly what you're doing.
As for adventures.. i can't say i feel the same way. But i think i can imagine, afterall, a nomad soul isnt meant to settle down (ba dum tss). Personally i am also looking forward for the next few vacations myself. Albeit they are all planned and is waaaaaaaay more boring than what you've described up there. hahaha.
11 hours man! You were such a early person!
Big a big fan of WC, but for sure it must be interesting, every WC people get very excited here in Belgium, I bet in Mexico too.
BTW, you must have a long bus ride, nice write up!
@joythewanderer Hey Joy! So nice to hear from you! Are we still meeting in the world cup? :P
Oh yeah, but I used to hate waking up so early EVERY day, there was a time where I couldn´t even wake up late in the weekends because my body was so used to getting up early on the weekdays, that every sunday I would wake up before 7 am :( sad times
I'll see, the hotels are quite expensive during the WC time! What's the plan so far, are you going to do a EURO trip next to the WC or only to Russia? Come visit Belgium :P
My hat is off to you to write something of this length on your cell phone, on a bus at 6 am. WTF? I don't like being up at 6 am unless it is from the night before. Life is life man, you do what you do when you can. The key is stopping to smell the roses when you pass them but never stopping otherwise.
Your cries for adventure are hitting home as the wife and I are getting ready to tackle one of life's adventures no-one wants, closing out a life. All adventures lead to the same place, memories of the past. Sometimes these lead to great memories and sometimes memories you wish you could forget but memories none the less.
Sit on the bus go where you go and make the memories, you never know when that ability will be taken so, do what you can while you can and tell us about it when you can. We live vicariously through you while we repeat our daily lives and dream of adventures of our own. Carry on Nomad.
@erodedthoughts Hey man so great to hear about you :D
Yeah it was pretty hard to mantain focus (mentally and physically) and I actually wanted to write about other topics but it was getting hard, I guess I´ll do that on thrusday that I have to go to the city again.
I didn´t know about that, I´ll message you on discord, I hope you are doing ok.
LOL! Your free writes are fun!
You have these topics you start covering out of nowhere and fill up a long read. I am hoping to get my storytelling there... Or my prose. Poetry would be too long but who cares, right? As long as one is engaging like you engage us (your readers) :)
I am working on polishing my craft (writing) or so I think. But rising above self-doubt while trying to express oneself is quite a challenge. I backslide on my pens a lot.
Football. Yes. I am obsessed with the World Cup but our national football is nonexistent so I support Ghana and Egypt in Africa and Brazil internationally. I LITERALLY can't wait for Russia 2018 :D
Thank you for the writing tips :)
@tezmel Thanks mate! I´m glad you found them fun. I like to include a bit of humor without exagerating or being cringy. Exactly, as long as it is engaging and that yur audience responds to it, then you are doing something good!
Where are you from? I know Ghana went to a world cup recently, Nigeria has gone a few times also :D
It's always an awesome feeling to have a reader relate! :)
LOL. Sadly I am from Kenya, we have athletes and rugby players here :D
Well I'm glad to know that you at least read the comments :)
Freewriting as a teen helped me think and control my thought flow( eventually). My thoughts used to be all over the place and I often spoke incoherently. I've never read my texts tho, as they make me cringe :P
I think I understood most of the post, but it is harder to read. Last but not least I don't like watching any sports :P Real stuff is better!
@kristyglas Lol of course I read them! And now I´m answering 90% of them, right now I´ve spent like one hour and I already answered like 50, and I´m still 241 to go :P
Oh yeah, I think we should all start with freewriting to understand our style (or find it) and to see what works and what doesn´t.
Lol why don´t you post them? You don´t have to read them, but don´t deprive us from that pleasure :P
Thanks for finding the time to reply! Over 200 comments left, sounds scary haha :S
(No need to reply to this one)
Last freewrite I wrote was many years ago, and I really don't want to be associated with that personality.
I agree that it helped me evolve my writing as well as psyche. I might try it again ^^
Good luck!
It is something normal sometimes we are too busy with other projects and do not give us enough time to rest or attend other things that we have pending, I am glad that you keep us informed about your new changes, have good day
@gvand Yeah but I mean, i think i should have the time, or make the time, especially when I preach so much about engaging and interacting with our audience. Im striving to change that :)
You got a 80.77% upvote from @ocdb courtesy of @anomadsoul!
Amigo que publicacion tan larga, por un momento pensé en dejar de leerlo pero algo me pareció curiosos la forma de cambiar de tema me dio intriga de lo que escribirias luego. Con respecto de la copa del mundo también me encanta espero mi país venezuela logre clasificar en un futuro no muy lejano. Así poder vivir la pasión del fútbol de la mejor manera.
Me despido voy a comer un rico helado de mantecados con fresas, banana y sirope de chocolates 🍨🍫🍓. Saludos
wow that bus ride must have been totally banana(s)!!! LOL
It was easy to read, although it did sound a bit like took an ecstasy and had 10 cups of coffee LOL. Good luck with the paperwork!!!
Jjajajaja, de verdad, y disculpa que me ria un poco, pero es que me ha ENCANTADO!!! me sacaste una sincera sonrisa con tu post. Me identifico totalmente, desde principio, exceptuando la parte donde eres hombre jajaja (soy mujer obviamente) y nunca he participado en una meada en el piso pero entiendo el punto jajaja. Se lo que es atravesar la ciudad dos horas en un bus para llegar al trabajo, entiendo la monotonía de los días, y el deseo de que surja "algo" bien sea inesperado, que te haga sentir de nuevo que estás vivo. Pero oye, creo que hay que ver desde otra perspectiva, a veces en mi pais (Venezuela) subirse a un autobus ya de por si es una travesía, y ultimamente suelo disfrutar de los espacios de tranquilidad que me ofrece mi propio hogar, a pesar de las ganas inmensas de salir y viajar y explorar el mundo, y sobre todo escapar de la situación actual, creo que hay que encontrar una forma y un momento para estar en paz consigo mismo, solo así encaja todo; a veces la iluminación y las grandes ideas llegan en esos momentos justos, ya sea conduciendo por 2 horas, parado mientras vas en el autobus, o sencillamente cuando pones tu cabeza en la almohada y te dispones a dormir.
I do not have many followers like @anomadsoul, but still it takes time to reply.
There are times when I feel like I am like a slave in my life. I thought it was an encouraging article for me. Thank you.
I resteemed this article.
Saludos, muy buen trabajo amigo 👀🍟👋
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