AverageTimes

As Obama appears more and more cartoonish with every magazine cover, and my neighborhood becomes more and more inundated with foreigners, July 4th is around the corner and I realize time has passed more quickly than I can fathom.  The age-old cliche that life happens when you are making grand plans for it, a mantra widely quoted on Facebook accounts of college freshman across the nation, though true, does not exactly apply here.  It has been 8 days short of a month since I contributed anything to this forum, and I am unable to report any severe changes to the state of my average situation.  This may be a good thing, as no tragedies or catastrophes have occurred, but it leads me to think that maybe my grand plans are just simply sub-grand afterthoughts, ranging from "raid parents Cape Cod attic for furniture" and "apply for jobs."  Everyone has daily ambitions, to-do lists, aspirations, and categorizing them as grand, while an overstatement, may be just the thing to boost self-confidence for your role in the game of life.  On that note, I give you my grand life plan-a conglomerate of thoughts and dreams condensed to a single plan of action: To lead a bi-coastal, creative, inspiring life by way of physical and spiritual journey's to far away places, surrounded by those I deem worthy and worth-while to share them with.  While this may ease the mere average fulfillment of my current situation, to think beyond my little Nolita six block radius might be inspiring and fulfilling enough for now.