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Jim. Just reached 20.
At Derby University studying Education Studies and English. I love it. Just finished my second year [time flies faster than I can take in] and having the most beautiful of times. The memories keep on being made, the chances always taken. I've found who I am. Really.
I am at a breathtakingly huge period of my life. And I plan on taking in every second, every chance with the greatest of excitement.
[Appreciate every moment you have, no matter how seemingly small. Soak your time with spectacular memories. You can't lose.]
My future is currently beating fast with pulsating possibilities.
I write for the wonderful Plus One Magazine, where I have been offered the perfect chance at the perfect of times.
To interview and review bands/music from a refreshing mixture of many genre's. Diverse experience in music journalism? A dream drifting into blissful reality. I'm putting everything I possibly can into this and it is already opening up many amazing outlets for me to become involved with in future times.
However, I wrote a collection of awed words a time ago, and this dream still rests somewhere inside of me, that I know for sure.
My wish is to become a Primary School Teacher. It would be wonderful as I feel the rewarding element of teaching day in day out was meant for me and would be something I would thrive on, gaining the buzzes of their youthful energy, you know?
Just seeing them smile would do it.
Am working my way through a two-day a week placement and it's utterly fascinating. Challenging, yet the perfect of experiences. Teaching abroad in a place like Africa, Gambia, somewhere where me being there [really] could help make a difference is also one of my hopes in life. I intend to take this up for a year after my 4th and final year, when I would be fully qualified. [At the fresh age of 21/22 I believe]
I sometimes just smile thinking about what lies ahead of me, how much of an amazing experience it would be and how much I would truly gain.
These words still float inside a heart wanting to capture so much of everything that life can be.
You could say I am torn, in a sense, as to which path to follow.
Which dream to work torwards.
So.
I guess there's only one way to move. One plan to live by.
To embrace both with the greatest of passion. And let my heart lead the way.
[Let's see what happens]
I also work at my local dry cleaners where I've been at for almost 3-ish years apparently. Good times have been shared, it's a place I truly enjoy working at. I'm a pretty damn positive guy all round in general, and so the word - negative doesn't really reply to me as such. I take the beauty and love over the ugly and hate in life as a rule and have a heart that opens up to most elements of life. I spend much time creating entertainment for people, looking out for them, learning more and more about who they really are. Being there. Smiles are so easy to create if you really care enough. I always, always do. :]
Enjoy nights out with my friends, always so much fun and constant comedy is around, just making people smile is the way I tend to roll. I have recently started to embrace films of all genre's as I used to, particularly thrillers and, in total contrast comedy movies. (Anchorman wins all)
Can we talk about music now? [We can]
Music is a huge part in making my life that extra special. Just a touch more..breathtaking. Music IS my life if I am honest. It really, really is. My CD collection could crumble a mountain and I spend near enough all of my money on music related material. It shapes how I feel, tears emotions from the depths of my soul, defines who I am, creates, forms memories and imprints them into sound, it.. I could go on...
I will always adore the way music can make me feel and how close a connection I have with it. It is a gift to my life, a true love that will never, ever fade. The escapism, the imagery. The knowing no-one can ever quite grasp or take in a moment in music in the same way you can. I go to as many gigs as I can physically make, as nothing can match the live music experience, and it's at this time of my life, when I have the chance to do so. Being blown away by a cherished band, moved by an unknown act. Every element of the experience. Treasured, forever. Don't be daunted by the number of friends, the majority are bands – some known to the masses, others the lucky handful few. All worth a listen though. :]
To choose my favourite and most savoured time to listen to music? When walking. Through masses of the unknowing with minds focused on the regular, the everyday. Whilst mine is alive as I pace on, being serenaded by sound. The world takes on such a refreshing and mesmerizing perspective as the scenes around me unfold. My eyes blinking to take it all in. It's easy to slip into a different world with a little inspiration, no?
I have encountered many intense, emotional, dare I say religious experiences whilst viewing the world around me and having a certain, at the time [perfect] piece of music to match. You know that sudden exhilarating rush of emotion you receive when hearing a certain musical melody, or gazing out into a sunset sky? I live for those moments.
Train journeys to nowhere in particular, just to reach new sights, new sounds make life that little bit more exciting. Sitting, alone, with headphones and a smile on my face is my bestest time to let the thoughts flow and take in memories, experiences of the past with wonder. I spend a bit of time playing football, in goals but nothing too serious, just love playing the beautiful game as well as watching it, being a supporter of Portsmouth FC. You know it makes sense.
In September of 2006, I traveled to Barcelona for 5 awe-inspiring days, ones which opened up a need, a desire to travel to see the world as often as I could. To become embraced in a fresh culture. New sights. New sounds.
My next adventure will be exploring Denmark, Germany and Scotland within two spectacular weeks in July/August. So overwhelming to await this time, especially as it was such a recent possiblity that's come out of seemingly nowhere.
Then comes Rome in early September. Budapest in 2008, America in the summer of that year and another solo journey needs to be squeezed in at some point. Paris was too beautiful for words.
The way I see it chances have to be grasped when they are in sight and my eyes seem to always be open wide for more of them to be snatched up in an instant, creating breathless memories to treasure within, always.
Traveling to Barcelona also returned my partly-lost inspiration to write, a passion which I've only recently fully understood, yet which has always been within me. Forming words from my overflowing mind, creating sentences via so much emotion. Ah, it's almost indescribable. I love nothing more than sitting with my window open, the dark night sky hanging in the distance, delicate music playing and letting the words flow freely. I'll try my hand at writing about anything, but at the moment am concentrating on composing a short story under 5000 words for the Bridport Prize competition. More for experience and enjoyment than a hope of winning the event though, but you never know...
My work on a full-length novel, filled with love, religion, travel, life itself.... [everything] is still underway, am three chapters into it now and am starting to find a real pace to the flow of it, though I think a little more life experience is required before this epic is truly complete. If you're interested in checking out my first chapter which I've composed (rough, of course), discussing writing, music, travel...anything.. feel free to drop me an email : [email protected]
I also write a music journal which I truly cherish. Words of THE moment when you felt THOSE emotions at THAT moment in time. Songs broken apart into gushed connections. Defining decisions. How they make me feel and why they can. It's a regularly updated piece, and personal as anything, few have read even a handful of entries. I suppose it keeps a little treasure-chest of memories for me to look back on when it all meant such a great deal to me. :]
[Hoping that I can take in every moment as it's given.
Some forget to appreciate the life that they are living.
Please, just give me one more day to accept the fact that I am going to die
and maybe just one more to live like I am truly alive.
I'll bath my body in the cold springs and warm myself in the afternoon sun,
and show my friends and family how much I appreciate them.
When the sun sets I'll head for the ocean, just start swimming until I can't stop.
When my body sinks to the bottom my soul will float to the top.
[So don't fall in love with the dreamer because we were meant to live alone.
I chase the rainbows and find solace in this microphone.
These words I offer you are the form of love I've got to give.
To touch you just for a moment till you see you've got your own life to live.
Remain still. Listen to the river run. I've got the eagles gift and a broken branch,
searching for edible plants in the garden of eat and run.
Bus station contemplation. My canoe's a drift.
The same one who snapped my oar in half is the one who made the wind shift.]
[You've got to laugh...you've..got to live.]
^^
[Nuccini]
“To take in every single moment I'm given. [The times of beauty, the times of despair]. To be moved by as much music, as many emotions, as possible. To see as much of the world as I can. To teach, at least in some way or at some period in my life. All the while creating memories to stay with a smile, an open mind, and a heart filled with love, hope and genuine appreciation of the chances I have.â€
^^^
[My vague answer to the generic 'What do you want to do in life?' question]
The shortest, most honest answer?
Everything
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