rewind the video of my life i wanna redo that dammit!

Okay, so a quick follow up – I finished the chili challenge and got my super hardcore t-shirt with a roaring bear and fire breathing gorillas! It’s brutal, and yes, I feel more manly than I did at the beginning of the week despite the fact that I almost cried on the fifth day. Even though it was really spicy it was still good chili. But now on to this week’s blog. I found a YouTube video of my childhood dream job. But before you watch it, you have to know a little bit about me and what this means to me. Ever since I was about five years old or so, I wanted to be a fighter jet pilot. It sounds childish but I don’t care. It would be amazing to be one and it still is my dream job. The worst part about it though is I am physically UNABLE to be one as a career. It’s the worst feeling in the world to know that the phrase “You can be anything you want to be when you grow up” doesn’t apply to me. The reason being, I am slightly deaf in my left ear. Its bulls*** especially when I wasn’t born with bad hearing. It was my fault. Freshman and sophomore year of high school I was on track to applying to the Air Force academy and joining the ROTC program so I could achieve my dream. However, I was also in a band in high school for those years. I played guitar and the way we set up for gigs and shows, I had my amp and the drummer to my back left about 6 or 7 feet away ( we played a lot of house parties so it was a little cramped). After 2 years, the traveling bus for sight and hearing tests came to our school, and the tests showed that my hearing was significantly lower in my left ear than my right ear. I didn’t even notice it. It feels fine. It just sucked that I couldn’t fly. But anyways back to the video. I like the footage a lot especially the last scene where he is all by himself for miles flying alone (except for the camera). I know some people will find it a little boring or maybe repetitive, but to me it’s awe inspiring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWPlrE9rNV8