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The Seminarian - A godless wanderer
Editor's choice, Travel

GLOBAL CITIZEN? NO, YOU’RE NOT.

Hacking is a mindset, lifting is a way of life. A traveller is something you are. And by this, I don’t mean a tourist. Many people travel as tourists – on holidays, school trips, with friends, with family or alone. They go to see the sights, to experience running with bulls to eat a snake’s blood. They go to see other cultures and “strange things that they don’t have at home,”

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton

I’m a traveller. By which I associate with a group of people who I’ve begun to see more and more as I get older. Generally they all call themselves “global citizens” although I find the phrase utterly pretentious and in need of a slap. I find my simpler definition more apt: a traveller seeks experiences to influence their opinion, without allowing their opinion to influence their experiences. It could be snappier; I know. Let’s stick with “traveller.”

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March 14, 2018by admin

Do things that matter but remember that few things do, in fact, matter. When they do, don’t forget to laugh.

Someone smarter than me
Editor's choice, Orlendr

THE SLOW PASSAGE OF TIME…

Have you ever tried to catch a dream and write it down? Just after waking? And no matter how much you try and grasp it in your mind, it just slips away. You know you have the essence of it, just not the feeling of it, at the time. Well, getting Orlendr down as a first manuscript is something like that.

She (yes, this book is a she to me, like boats, motorbikes and my snowboard) – she is planned out, mapped, my characters are all alive to me, and I roughly know what I want to happen. That doesn’t stop everyone from running around doing different things to what I expected – but that’s the same as the last book, so I suppose it’s ok. The problem is the sense of it.

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March 1, 2018by admin

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in the success.

Otto von Bismarck
Editor's choice, Lifting

TEN SECONDS TO DEATH

Ten seconds was how long it took for me to change my life. It also was how long it took for my life to almost end. I was in a choke-hold at the time, roughly about midnight, somewhere on Piccadilly Circus in London. I’d been in the hold for ten seconds and was nearing black-out with blows raining down on me when I realised something important.

I'm too weak, and I'm not in control. Assuming I survive I'm never again getting back in a situation where I make this realisation. - Me

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February 27, 2018by admin

“Because adventure is, in itself, worthwhile.” So don’t you dare waste your life on the couch.

Amelia Earhart & The Godless Seminarian
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