Ben Dussault

We all have the ability to jump into new things in our lives, experience a different path. How we get there depends on who we surround ourselves with and how confident we feel with the choice to go through with it.

I’d be a liar to say that I’m into trying anything. Food may of the few things that comes close to the “anything goes” mentality because I just generally enjoy eating. But even food has its limits. There have definitely been several fast food joints that I’ve turned down being that they were way too sketchy and it was hands down straight culinary Russian roulette. But that being said if you cooked it with love I may be down for the cause, and would at least entertain the idea. What can I say we all have our weakness(es).

I’m talking about things like watching a friend swing off a rope up high above a foreign bed of water (did it… terrified of heights) and with no hesitation following the lead. The ease of just going for it without the fear of not being able to pull it off is pretty awesome. It’s all about trusting, not talking your self out of it or walking away.

These excuses we make are a self-created fantasy, they never truly existed and they limit us as individuals. If It was never experienced first hand, basing it on a feeling or intuition is, in my opinion not enough to go through life on.

I’ve been there at times and it sucks every time. When you step down from a potentially positive encounter with a part of you that you’ve never met, you may find yourself disappointed and reliving the scenario over again. That kind of rejection isn’t as easy to brush off as it would from someone/something else.

Thank you to my partner in all aspects of life Dani Kind who keeps herself open to ideas, encouraging the many around her to do the same. I learn to breathe through life’s choices that much easier with you around. Also to Baltimore’s own Joe and Brianna who keep my short visits there naturally awesome because they naturally are.

Go swim in a lake, pool or your friends bath… Being in the water rules!