8 days, 40 miles, 16 elk, 0 kills (awh shucks), 2 best friends, and 1 hell of a time.
Sponsored by: @iqbar (not really….but maybe next year if they see this and it gets a lot of likes, cmon guys)
Literally my whole entire world. I am nothing without this. I have no sense of self, all I know is that I’m in a relationship and probably will be until I die.
Happy 25 Year Anniversary to my buddy:)
ps…there’s a giraffe in the 3rd pic
Read if you want to cry 😢: Do you ever find yourself asking, how did we/I end up here?
Maybe you’re not happy with the way the world is right now.
Maybe you just quit a job, maybe you’re stuck somewhere you don’t like, maybe you’ve got a family and a job you love and you’re asking yourself, how could I be so lucky?
Whatever your reasons for asking, it’s important to pause and reflect. And sometimes, it’s the only thing you should be doing.
Today, I found myself asking… how the hell did a 25-year-old like myself end up running through the bush of Africa looking for hyenas with a bunch of kids?
The answer is simple—choices.
It’s a myth that you have to let your inner child die. There are defining moments in your life when you can choose one path or another, and there truly isn’t any going back. No do-overs.
Today, I had the choice to embrace the fear of looking for hyenas or “being an adult” and “acting my age” and going home. Today was a DEFINING MOMENT.
A month ago, I had the choice to sacrifice my values for a job or quit with no backup plan after spending a good chunk of my savings on a trip I could barely afford.
That DEFINING MOMENT led me to TODAY’s defining moment… do you see how they add up?
After this adventure today, they told me to come back again tomorrow… and I nearly cried because I realized I had made a friend—many friends. And I knew I couldn’t come back tomorrow because tomorrow I was going home.
And I cried because I knew, next time I come back, those kids are going to be a year older. They’re going to grow up. They might not want to chase hyenas and monkeys with strangers anymore. The world will have made them stop and grow up.
In the end, all I really hope for is that I showed them—you can be an adult. You can be a grown man from the middle of nowhere America, the country that never stops working, never stops grinding, forces you to be an adult… and still never grow up.
Just like they showed me—you can be dead broke, from a war-torn nation, living on the outskirts of the city in the worst conditions, and still be a kid. I just hope, deep down in my heart, that they don’t ever have to grow up too.
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