NEW EXPERIENCES...!

So I've covered about 4000km in the last 9 days and I've done more stuff 'for the first time' than maybe I've done in the last 21 years? Waking up with a big smile on my face and straight, pulled back shoulders isn't something I've always done so fucking pinch me cause I'm really doing this stuff

Let me go on record and say that scuba diving is probably the coolest thing I've ever done. Imagine all the spiritual and mortality cliches you can think of and it probably still doesn't cut it. I'm probably in more danger crossing the road the way I do than being 8 metres under the sea but it is so, so surreal. You gotta do it. Anyone in Cairns. Do it. Don't make excuses and don't just snorkel. I want a tattoo symbolising the ocean... watch this space.

What else I've been doing - sailing through tropical islands on top of the reef. Grade 4 white water rapids. A spiderman bungy. Going from having only jumped off the lowest diving board to a 50m bungy/5m rapid rock jumps in a few days has been an experience. Doing this sort of shit... to compare.. If you're lucky enough to get into a fight there'll be this terrifying moment where the other guy looks like he's going to hit you and your stomach is turning somersaults and then POW, he does, and rather than exploding into a thousand pieces you're still alive and the nervousness in your stomach is gone and you're filled with this righteous euphoric rage that someone has FAILED to stifle YOUR existence and just to prove it you may even punch right back but even grinning and showing him passive contempt is good enough - in some ways even better. That's how it feels to push your own boundaries so completely and I wouldn't wish a life of wondering and what if's on my biggest ENEMY. Don't avoid leaps of faith.

I start my new job on Thursday and man alive am I looking forward to it. The freedom I think I'm going to be getting in this position is making me moist - even if it's only to have my own music playlist in the shop I'll be looking at music psychology as a sale aid.

I'm sitting in Byron Bay and I'm gonna be here another two nights. They put me up in the King bedroom for freesies! What a life.

For now, on a beautiful day, peace.