About Me
Who am I? Well, this is a brief synopsis of my personality. This is not written to talk endlessly about myself, but rather to attract new people who might share similar personality traits:
Readers Digest: I am a risk-taking ENTP with a big craving to acquire new hobbies, skills and personal connections.
Reader’s Indigestion: I spend my life documenting my surroundings. I have spent massive amounts of time taking photographs, capturing video, documenting in journals, and spend even more time simply walking around the world paying attention. Some people have commented that I am very aware of my surroundings and notice the smallest of details, but I deflect that, as I think that all details are out there to collect by those who seek them. Still, I won’t deny that the constant attention to details has heightened my sense of sight and hearing a little bit. Maybe for this reason, maybe not, but I have a fondness and adoration for music, and have just as much fun creating it as I do listening. I take thousands of pictures at all times, and have stacks of journals and notes stuffed around my living spaces. I treat documenting the world around me as a full time job.
Since my youth, I have developed a tendency to prefer to immerse myself in the great outdoors as opposed to any television show. I’ll rarely refuse any type of outdoor activity, and base my clothing, vehicles choices and travel plans to match. While I’m very comfortable with the great wilderness, my recent stint at college in Pittsburgh has forced me to develop a certain taste and respect for the city, and I’m equally comfortable sidewalk shopping in an urban environment as I am camping in the mud. I love to create. I try very hard to produce artwork, digital images, films, novels, and just about any other medium I can get my hands on, though often I get bored quickly and move on to the next day’s project before even denting the surface of the last. I tend to be inclined to understand mechanical systems, hence the career choice, but have more fun trying to understand the way people think and behave rather than how a diesel engine operates.
I have a great fondness of people who think critically and creatively, and enjoy the company of those with a passion for ingenuity, creativity, the arts, counterculture, the outdoors and a true sense of adventure. People who appeal to me are those whom respect themselves, others around them, and truly agree with me that adults don’t have as much fun as we are supposed to be having. Often, I feel that most of our modern day connections and activities are shallow, routine and done simply so that you can move on to the next trivial task. This philosophy drives me to seek humor and fun in most situations, and even though I walk the line between inappropriate and funny, most people don’t leave interactions with me feeling less positive than before. I have a lot of passion and a lot of energy, but I’m quickly learning that those are very infectious things, and often a cure for the universe’s most common ailment, apathy.
I seek the meaning of life’s journey, and spend most of my personal time trying to solve the secrets of the universe, in one form or another. I do not believe in fate or purpose, but only meaning. I believe that every decision one makes is made based on personal equations and parameters, and not some infinitely long domino chain of events and sequences that has been preset by an unknown identity. For me, this belief does not invalidate any of my religious convictions, but does convince me that what we can do in life has a very real effect, and we can make a difference in the direction that the universe unfolds. Everything we do would be meaningless unless we could chose to make such a difference. As an ENTP, or maybe just a quirky person, I rarely see the world as is actually is, but rather see the world as it could be. This forces me to be a bit of a pessimistic optimist, but I see great potential in all situations, environments and most of all, people.
Our world is full of boring, close-minded individuals, which I cannot tolerate. I tend to find the average person rather boring, but get very hopeful and eager to meet new people with the hopes to find someone who is exciting to talk to. I crave companionship and communication, and never stop trying to make new friendships and reinforce old ones. In a friend or partner, I value depth of character above all else. When I get a chance to converse with someone who sees the world as the complex machine that I see, I can barely wait to befriend them.
I get excited by personal connection with individuals, and highly value a conversation, whether the medium be verbal, artistic or physical language. I highly respect someone who has an “I’ll try anything once” attitude, and feel that if you aren’t trying to let the world paint its colors on you, you might as well get in the ground now and pass the paint to me.
Above all else, I value the surreal, the meaning, and passion behind all of life’s little idiosyncrasies, and truly believe that everything I do is for the journey, not the product. I want to meet new people, try new things, and remember every detail possible. I love to taste the world around me and am already interested in you if you share the same zest for life.
