Notes from an Anglo-American Man

Patrick Rothfuss and the legion of Baby Ducks. Some of you may be familiar with the author Patrick Rothfuss (see my posts about him previously to see what my feelings on the man are ) however I have some interesting and quite frankly damning information against him. This information shall be revealed in a second first I want to share with you just how I came upon this information. Earlier this month he finished his first charity campaign for Heifer international and his efforts were applauded by many. He raised over $100,000 for them with half of it being donate by himself (matching $ for $) however it was his one mistake in posting an image of the cheque that he sent to them. Upon the line reserved for what the cheque is for he wrote baby ducks. This is where the information came from, at first I thought nothing of it, but then I remembered something, ducks are the most loyal of all the animal kingdom and they stay bought once you have bribed/bought them. I did the simple math and was astounded to know that 5849.314 ducks (assuming the $20 per duck price) were provided by him 2924.657 by his own donation. I trembled with fear as I realised that he is amassing a duck army. We should all be aware of this fact and hope that he does not succeed in his global domination goals (for what else could he want such an army of ducks for?)

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Well done Pat, the world is a better place for having your actions in it.

I was in training today and during our lunch break I overheard this snippit of conversation.

“… you’re 24? I thought you were my age. Man 24 is almost halway to 30.”

Now at this point I was trying ever so hard not to laugh, the girl who couldn’t have been over 19 reacting like this, and it being so wrong.

I thought about it, and got a little sad at the thought I’m getting into my mid twenties, and I have done more in my life than many people twice if not three times my age.
But I don’t feel like I’m the age I am, I don’t look or act it most of the time either.

I had a friend who for the first 6 months of our friendship thought I was in my early thirties, I don’t act like your normal twenty-something.

I laugh about this but it leaves and underlying sadness, why do I have so much more life experience compared to others? I wouldn’t change it for the world I’m more sad for the people who don’t, they have missed out on so much, both good and bad, beautiful and terrible.

But it is these experiences that make life, life.

The movie Wall-E has a line in it.

“I don’t want to survive, I want to live.” and I think that that is so relevant today, so many people are just surviving getting from one week to another, never living life. And we are enabling this.

I just started a new job working with adults with learning dificulties and one of the things that we try and do is to enable them to be as independant as possible, and to live their life, not just to survive. I chose the job because I want to help people live, but I don’t just want to limit it to people with disabilities I want to help as many people live as possible, in all senses of the word.

The Bible tells us that Christ came to give us life and life in abundance. I would see as many people having that life in abundance as possible, I am a life hog, and want to share the wonder that is life to as many people as possible.

Again if anyone wants to talk with me just drop me an email, or post a comment and I’ll chat with you about anything that I raise in these posts.

Peace and love

Ben

Ok so my bad, it’s been 20 days since my last blog, not that I havn’t thought abotu what I would write if I were blogging, but I shall give you a brief overview of those days.

10 of them spent sick, very very sick, and so tired that I actually slept for about 20 blocks of 30 mins over the day!  then that passed and I had to catch up on the things I’d not done because I was sick, and chase up my doctor to write a medical report so that I could start work.

He finally did and I started work yesterday In training for most of this week and if yesterday is anything to go by my brain will be tired after each day.

Last week my friend Iain was up for the entire week for his graduation ceremony, and another friend was up for one night/day So I spent most of last week out, it is very tiring! but very fun.

We had a leaders meeting with the VCI Asia heads on saturday, with lots of lovely food. It was great I really admire the heads of that area I went to school with their son for a year and learnt a lot about what they were doing over there, though this weekend was the first time I’d ever met them.

I felt the tug to go to thailand again, not only to start work on my docu but also to help out with the work that they are doing for a while. Of course that will have to wait for now, but it’s nice to know I have a plan regarding that eventually.

Also I made my list of things I want to do in my life version 1.0 and I can hapily tell you that I am over 15% of the way to my top goal of traveling 1,000,000 miles

anyway gotta get ready for work

Peace and love

Ben