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CJG

Why Can't I Be A Kid Again?!? There Is Too Much Thinking As An Adult!

About Me


It’s hard to know about me, without first knowing how I think. I think therefore I am. Descartes might have been wrong…Thinking != Being. My active mind challenges everything, and the results of those challenges are also challenged. I have come to realize that this is no way to live, but rather not live. I search for simplification. I have made my life complex, I have strived for accomplishment and validation. In 28 years, I have accomplished everything I ever wanted, and now that I have done this, I find myself asking the question, what next? You begin to realize that success and money do not equal happiness, we hear this, but until you experience it, you don’t believe it.
I now ask, who am I? What makes Chris, Chris? Am I the person I want to be? If I’m not, then how do I become that person? And what will be the basis for becoming that person?
I have been fortunate to travel this world and see the many different types of people that live in it. I see people, brainwashed, without them knowing it. Religion, Culture, and Environment have made people who they are. I ask, if you remove those things, what is left? I struggled with this for many months. I realized that no matter what I believe the truth that I am left with…are my senses. Taste, Touch, Sight, Smell and Sound. This is truth. Most people have all of these items, but there are people that can’t see, those that can’t hear (and I’m sure they get things better than I do). I am not one of those people, although, my ears really suck from all the loud stereos I have built. The meaning of those sensors, comes from what I have been told they should mean, and this has come from my religion, my culture and my environment.
So, what should I base my future being on? And how can I detach from my past and transcend from the meaning I have put on things over 28 years and start anew in the now? I don’t have this answer, but I am looking for it. Lately, I tend to fall back on “patience” and “going with the flow”, letting the world around me, push and pull me to where it wants to send me. Again, I don’t know if this is the right answer, but it seems like the one that will work the best right now…even if it leads to getting hurt as it has seemed to have driven me too lately.
There are other things that guide me everyday…I see the universe as a sphere, and when looking at that sphere of everything and nothing, I know I know very little about that sphere. I know I don’t know lots about it, and then there is everything I don’t know I don’t know about it. I strive to focus on those things that I don’t know I don’t know. This way of thinking, has helped me to move away from the meanings I have built around my 28 years on this planet, but damn, it’s a hard place to stay in.
I use to hide my emotions, I’m a man…we aren’t suppose to have those right? But as I have met and experienced various people in my life, they have helped me to express and understand them. Suppressing my emotions wasn’t the answer, as I realized very recently, it just hides and buries them where they will surely manifest later. Accepting the emotion, even sadness as something unique, where it very rarely happens is something my mind would not like me to do, but I have intently practiced observing the emotion rather than letting it become my identity.
Where do I get all this stuff? Drugs? No, never done them (well half a pill of estacy once), don’t have plans to do any any time soon, as a matter of fact, I have even removed drinking to help me focus on figuring out who I want to become (damn...New Orleans with crazy Marines is not the time to quit drinking!). Recently, drinking and suppressed feelings took something away from me. And very quickly, happiness turned to sadness. Pain took over because I didn’t want to accept the fact that the plan my mind laid out, didn’t happen. I planned the perfect future, and let the past inhibit and eliminate that perfect future. I realize now, that there is nothing that I should think about other than right now! I could die on this plane as I write this, in a fiery crash, and a quick death. What would I be thinking as that plane went down? Would I smile? Would I laugh? Would I be scared out of my wits, letting my life flash through my eyes? I would like to think that I would have a big smile on my face, tears in my eyes for have been fortunate to have had the life I have (and of course, the faces of the people closest to me right now).
To answer the question…”where I get all this stuff”, I ask questions. I inquire of my elders, I explore with my friends (those that are capable of exploring with me without drugs), and my curiosity of life given my lack of religious affiliation today. I encourage you to do the same…maybe you’ll figure something out I haven’t.
Back to the about me…Who Am I? Haven’t figured that out yet. Who do I want to be? Haven’t figured that out yet either. Let me ask this…Do you know who you are, who you want to be?
What I do know is that I am a person that searches for truth, enlightenment if you will, of myself and the world around me. If you explore like this, and want to share ideas, then you should send me a message, I have already realized, I can’t live this life on my own…have you?

My Interests

Traveling the world, then to the moon. But I also like...Drinks at the Tower Club, skating at the Skate King in Bellevue, Sushi, and chillin at my favorite local bar (Coopers)! And as soon as the boys finish it, skating on the skate ramp next door!

I am also interested in renewing my relationship with my family! I am going to call them all once a week! Something that rubbed off on me from Ms. Hoffmann!

I'd like to meet:

Fresh, Driven, Dynamic, Extremely Intellegent People...Don't be shy...drop me a message...I'm always into meeting new people!

Music:

I use to like fast get you going, keep you going, never stop until your dead music. But now I realize, that at this age, anything that can slow you down and keep you from thinking too much is probably good stuff. I also realized that the pop music is there, but you will always feel like that music if you listen to it all the time, when you should be feeling something else!

Movies:

The Matrix, James Bond: 007 type, Sci-fi (Star Trek, Star Gate, Twilight Zone), all foreign movies (Spain, France, Italy). Can't forget the old musicals that drive my karaoke spirit...Oklahoma and Gone with the Wind!!!

Television:

24 of course! Some people think I need to watch an episode of Sex In The City, yeah...never seen a whole one...imageine that (sorry LL Cool J)

Books:

Latest Greatest Technology books, but lately, as you can see from my about me, I am wanting to explore more ontology books and things that focus on enlightment.

Heroes:

Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Donald Trump...I should also mention people that strive to care about others more than themselves, of which all but one in the above list would qualify, but I only know a couple of those people in real life! Kendal, she's one!

My Blog

Knoxville, TN

Wow...had Grits yesterday...with Fried Green Tomatos...my expose to new things just keeps going!  Not alot to do in Knoxville, TN except watch University of Tennessee lose there 1 basketball ran...
Posted by CJG on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:13:00 PST

Underground Chicago! VIP!

One of my new buddies from Barcelona hooked me up with "the list" of the hottest club in Chicago last night!  It was definitely off the hook!  Check it out! http://www.undergroundchicago.com...
Posted by CJG on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:25:00 PST

Dinner With Barry Bonds!

How crazy is this...I was just eating dinner with Barry Bonds and his family...literally...his family and like 5 other people!!!  Too freakin cool!  I love San Francisco...and my life!&...
Posted by CJG on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:28:00 PST

San Francisco!!!

Woohoo!  San Francisco!  I haven't been in ages!  And I get to go to the All-Star game and a Giants Game on Friday!  What a great trip this will be!  CJG
Posted by CJG on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:58:00 PST

My Birthday!

Woohoo! My birthday is on Monday!  Party at my house all weekend (and even all week as I am taking the week off)!  Coopers, firepit, hottub and the skate ramp should all be good to go! ...
Posted by CJG on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:41:00 PST

Los Angeles!

I sooo love LA...City Club in downtown LA has some very cool people as members!  A couple great people invited me to the Dodgers game VIP style!  It was great!  Next weekend, MTV music ...
Posted by CJG on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:42:00 PST

http://www.nojazzfest.com/

Holy Crap!  Jazz Fest is going on in New orleans this week!  ZZ Top, Better Than Ezra, Counting Crows...dang...what a time to be in NO!  I got some NO friends, but any myspace peeps&nbs...
Posted by CJG on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:44:00 PST

MySpace Revamp

Ok, it's time to reinvent myself!  I have come to realize that my myspace page wasn't portraying who I want to be!  I need help!  Those who know me and have been good friends through th...
Posted by CJG on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:39:00 PST

Travel Schedule!

For those of you interested in where I will be over the next couple of months... New Orleans, LA  (April 30th-5th)Omaha, NE (May 6th-9th)Tampa, FL (May 23rd-30th)Yikes!  I will have 50K+ in-...
Posted by CJG on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:27:00 PST

My Hair Cut!

Yes, I finally did it!  I cut my beautiful long curly hair!  Now I can actually wake up and be ready in less than 15 minutes!  Now I look like a boy band type...
Posted by CJG on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:43:00 PST