Mr. B. Ayo and I are in week three of our project and I’ve noticed something. The more often you leave the house, the more experiences you have and the more stories you have to tell. I, for the record, am not a good story teller, but I have time to work on that, and now that I’m going out on a Tuesday night, something I wouldn’t have done a year earlier, I’m creating new experiences for myself.
Consider this. Had I not left the house last night, I would have never gone to East Burn (a bar), heard the rumor that Dave Chappelle was in Portland and putting on a free show at midnight, seen the live photo on a guys iPhone that looked something like the photo above, rushed down to Pioneer Courthouse Square, crammed through a whirlpool of 10,000 drunk and dirty Portland kids to the front of the stage, touched Dave Chappelle as he pushed by me and been an eye witness to the most spontaneous twitter/facebook fed mass gathering in Portland history.
Below, Dave Chappelle rocking the mic
How much did I spend that night? $6. But because I made the decision just to leave my house, to go out and interact with people, something extraordinary happened to me. And I feel like this is the way to create a unique and interesting life. I went into last night expecting nothing but a good time, and I came out with a lifelong story to tell.
Tags: 2009, confidence, Dave Chappelle, East Burn, field report, Neta, Oregon, Pioneer Square, Portland, Self Improvement
July 22, 2009 at 2:09 am |
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