Seriously… who names a blog “Hunting Cows?”
Have you ever had a moment where a seemingly inconsequential event occurred that changed the whole way you looked at something in life? I’m not implying that the event has to have changed the course of your pursuits or even been particularly meaningful – just that it affected something in an irreversible way. Sure you have, haven’t you?
I’ll give you a stupid example.
In the last place I lived we had on-demand hot water. I’m not sure what the method for providing this system was but I can tell you that within four seconds of turning on the tap, the water was hot. Anyone who has lived with this small luxury knows that they never want to live without it again. If, on the other hand, you have never had such a thing I doubt you care one way or another how long hot water takes to get to you; provided it is not unreasonable.
Debatable merits of on-demand hot water aside, the effect was to transform how I look at luxury – how my thinking is informed when I consider the good life. That, in turn, affects my ambition when I think about where I want to be in the future (dreaming in detail is important but that is for another post). The concept of on-demand hot water is so minor, so inconsequential that it’s almost not worth mentioning but it profoundly altered the way I look at something in life. It’s a piece of my ambition now, even if it’s only a footnote to a conceptual forest.
The idea wasn’t difficult to find, it just fell into my lap. As a concept, on-demand hot water was standing there waiting to be discovered. It wasn’t difficult to grasp, it wasn’t even hard to see, it just required me to stop for a moment and say: “ah-ha, I get it.”
This is how the world is changed though – one drop of realization at a time. The small ideas add up and become a force. A force becomes a movement. A movement, in turn, becomes a revolution and revolutions change the world. Every new age begins with tens of thousands of tiny ideas, sparks against the fire of tomorrow’s passion.
If a new perspective, a bright idea, or a paradigm shattering experience is just standing there in the open, waiting to be discovered like it’s the most natural thing in the world [if only we would stop and bear witness], then we are hunters of those epiphanous moments. They aren’t exactly elusive. The truth wasn’t forged by ninjas… no it’s more like… It’s like hunting cows.
It’s just that simple. One minute we were blind, the next moment we see the obvious staring back at us. We wonder how we ever could have been so blind.
Here at this blog, I am all about hunting cows. Every day I dive into life. Sometimes my eyes are open, sometimes I’m on a specific mission, and other times I’m stumbling blindfolded and drunk though a dark alley in pursuit of the next topic. Every time I find a new idea it transforms some small part of me. I become more and more alive, more substantial, more who I am supposed to be on this journey called life. If even a few of my discoveries change you – dear reader – then this chronicle will have been worth its weight in pixels.
There are cows to be hunted. Grab a sidearm.
Let’s dance.
