Being your best self

The challenge in today's world is to make yourself useful, and fight against the absurdity that seemingly exists around us. 

I'd like to share with you what I'm doing, and suggest you come up with some things for yourself. 

First, and foremost, never stop learning. Take advantage of any opportunities that are offered to learn a new skill. Take classes at the collegiate level (hey some are offered at universities for free, online, on your schedule). I keep teaching myself new tools online and playing with creative ideas. 

Challenge yourself to think about things you hear.  Don't accept things at face value. Always be a critical thinker. 

Volunteer! I am currently volunteering about once a month at the food bank. The reason: food insecurity is a very big problem and as a (supposed) 1st world nation, we should be doing more. My little bit helps my community.  And by the way, something I read was that Taylor swift makes a sizable donation to the local food bank in every city she tours, because she sees the need and can't volunteer in person.  For what it's worth, I find that intriguing. 

I also decided that I could be a citizen archivist. The national archives is always looking for volunteers to help read hand written cursive letters that exist in the archive. It's surprisingly fun, and as long as the archives remain available on the internet, I can see keeping this up.