By Jaron Brandt
I would argue that all of life is experienced in waves. These waves crash onto our shores in the form of people, events, emotions and obsessions.
When I look at my own life, I find the latter is the most evident. I go through fascinations like the moon goes through phases. The only difference is that sometimes my obsessions don’t even last a month.
I think I experienced my shortest phase when I was about six years old. My school took our class on this field trip to a cave on the north side of San Antonio to learn more about stalactites or whatever. The tour of the caverns was pretty awesome, but let me tell you, the gift shop at the end was even better. There were rocks everywhere.
I remember grabbing one of those velvet sacks that I could’ve sworn came straight from the belt of Robin Hood, and I filled it to the top with all of the colorful stones on display inside the wooden barrel. I told myself that from that day on, I was going to collect rocks. The next day, I went into my backyard to try and excavate even more gems for my collection, but I quickly found out that the rocks around my pool lacked the certain flair.
Was it possible that there was nothing left for me to discover? I quit collecting rocks that day in my backyard. Do I regret buying those cheap, faux minerals from the cavern’s gift shop? Of course not.
I share all of this as way to say one thing: don’t be afraid to invest. Now, I’m no Dave Ramsey, so don’t even think about modeling your budget after this article. I just think too many people are ashamed to chase down and explore a fancy. At the moment, I am an extremely proud co-host of a show on Eagle Radio that airs weekly.
I spend a lot of my free time thinking and dreaming about what I want this brainchild to become. In a month from now, who knows? I still have dozens of things I want to accomplish one of these days. So, if I end up getting burnt out on the studio life, no worries. From the way I see it, the tide is bound to rise, and waves are bound to come. Until then, I’ll just ride this one out.
Jaron Brandt is a junior at Oklahoma Christian University.
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