James Apo Assignment 6: Create Your Own Adventure

It’s Sunday night, the last night of fall break and I’m sitting here thinking about this blog assignment and the three writing prompts. As I’m reading the assignment, I wonder what is exigence? So I look it up and find out that it’s an emergency, a situation that requires swift action and decision. I’m thinking that this assignment is somewhat exigent.  As I’m thinking about that, I think also about the question “what’s on your mind?”  My mind begins to wander and I’m thinking about the things that interest me, what’s really on my mind. All of these are prompts and as I think of them collectively as my thoughts begin to race, towards an ultimate fantasy of ESCAPE!  I think about what I would do if I could create my own adventure, my own escape from the tedious day-after-day of school and homework and chores and not being able to be independent and do what I want, when I want.

I don’t have to think long or hard. If I could, I’d hop on the next plane that would get me to Hawaii, to the beach, to the ocean, to my dad, not because I want desperately to get away from my mom; it’s not that al all. But there is a lot of truth to what everyone always thinks about Hawaii being a kind of paradise. When I’m there, I can really relax and I don’t have to worry so much about homework or deadlines or too awfully much about anything, except how high the waves are going to be, if my dad will let me go out or if he’ll  say they’re too big for me to handle. It’s not just surfing and the beach that I love there either – it’s the whole island way of life. It’s a slower pace, no worries, no hurries. When I’m there, that’s how my life operates – no worries, no hurries, no deadlines. I know that if I lived there all the time things would be different; I would have to go to school and have to do things differently than I do when I’m there for a break or for the summer.  But man, they are good times. I hope someday I can be successful enough to live there with that type of mental attitude and financial capability so that every day would seem like a day in paradise and every day could be an adventure! I guess that doing homework now, and working hard for a good while longer, is a must if I ever expect that day to come.