Out Casts

Hello all
squid here

its a little too early in the morning here for a booyaa

so im going to reflect on life for a little bit

when growing up
grunt and i where or felt like we where not to fit in, not that we where outcasts or rejects.... but basicaly i say we were different,

i mean different in a goodway, only becuase we turned out to be better than most people we know, and in better i mean we care more about what we do and how we affect or change the people and area around us.

when growing up i felt like i never really fit in, i didnt do the things in highschool that most did, i didnt like team sports or really participate in clubs. I did more mountain biking and scubadiving becuase i could either do these alone or share it with people that cared about the same things i did.

i did how ever participate in the yearbook, which allowed my creativity to flow freely, which was super nice. i really enjoyed that, alone i drew alot, wrote some and worked on things alot, like my bike or stuff like that.

grunt i believe was the same way, he was more of an outdoorsy person than i was and still am, but he could be alone if he wanted to or share when he wanted as well.

we both did try to participate in team sports but in the end we both either got kicked out or decided to quit only becuase we where not the typical "team players"

to win was never the real question, to participate was the major goal, and that is where we were seen to fail, ot atleast that is what i see it as. where we grew up to fail was never good, people praised us for trying but in the end never supported the effort, they just saw us as failing. where i saw it as doing something i liked

that is where rockclimbing, mountain biking and scuba diving come in here, and just being out in the woods.

you never really fail here. ok so you crash, fall, or get tired. so what. you where doing something you like and noone could ever take that away from you, and if some one said so they could never prove it because most of the time the where not there.

for example, some one told me that diving in the sate of maine was pointless, diving year round was crazy but they never took the time to try it. so i asked them, when my friend and i found the wisky bottle 45 feet under the water in the dead of january, one that we could date back to the revolutionary war, that was not worth it. that my friend and i, my sucessor at the school who took up my job when i left. to teach others the joy in the sport and and joy of friend ship after the tough cold swims we took is not worth it? that we depended on each other to keep each other safe and alive and took the risk of never comming back becuase the water we swam in was so cold, the current was so swift that at a moments notice we could have been swept in to the atlantic ocean never to be seen agin. it is not worth it.

I choose to chlaenge my self in different ways than others, to take on challenges that will in the end make me a better person and when relecting on them i can say, i did that and move on.

where grunt and i where brought up, we didnt leave our names in the mud of sports or academic greatness, which is looked down appon, we left out names in the woods and streets of our town where when we go back we see kids doing the same thing we did. riding though the woods and fields we did. taken the unwalked path and making it so people could fallow.

so i ask you, do you know an outcast, some one who keeps kinda to them selves?
some one who does things differently?
why not ask them why they do it
and why not ask them to take you on their next adventure
go to that comic shop
go on that bike ride through the woods thats going to take you 4 to 8 hours
go on that swim in the cold dark place
see what they see
and come back and tell me who the outcast really is
just beacuse we dont openly share our "field goa, and home runs" like a superstar does
doesent mean they are not a spactacular or as great!

squid out