"Life is about the stories we could tell." [Feature]

I understand ahead of time if you don't want to read this.  It is, after all, a recapitulation of my weekend.  There is, however, an over-arching theme to my adventures.

My weekend essentially begins with one of the most interesting films I've ever seen.  I took my mother out for dinner and a movie, and because we're both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis fans, seeing Looper was no question.  I will not even attempt to explain this movie, because I'm running low on aspirin  and it's not proper to give your readers headaches.  I will, however, highly recommend that you see Looper as soon as you can.  It's interesting concept creates a new world for ones imagination to explore, and derive many fantastical situations that can exist here.  Other movies that captured my imagination in a similar way are In Time, Limitless, and Source Code (all of which also come highly recommended).  I suppose this story did take a tangent into a review, so this post can still count as one whose content is entertainment-related.

Saturday evening, my friend and I attempted GeoHashing, a "method for finding an effectively random location nearby and visiting it".  We quickly decided we didn't want to creepily drive into a local residence for no apparent reason, so we defaulted to GeoCaching.  We found a rock container hidden in a rock garden.  The container stored a list signed by every person who had ever found it.  Headed back towards my home, at about 10:00, I received a phone call from a dear old friend.  "We're meeting at the high school and going to haunted houses."  So, in the spirit of "why the hell not?", my friend and I hopped in the car and headed that direction.  Due to countless failed attempts at preparation, we did not attend any haunted houses.  We instead rode go-karts, played laser tag, and shot at each other with big foam balls.  This is probably the most artistic story I've ever written.  Staying out until 3 a.m. and walking through a Taco Bell drive through, we eventually made it home at 3:30 a.m.

The next day, we got up bright and early to go hiking and see an overlook.  I taught a friend to waltz on said overlook.  Because, why not?

Finally, the highlight of my experience.  Which requires me to tell a short story about stupidity.  My building has decided that no matter what the weather is doing, they will turn the heat on the same date every year.  So, for the last two weeks, it's been a bombing 75 degrees outside, and the heat is still on.  Long story short, I've been having trouble sleeping because of the heat.  So, instead of sleeping, I drove to a local small mountain that overlooks my fair city.  The lights of the town were beautiful, and with the windows down, I finally fell asleep.  When I woke, the sight I saw was beautiful.  The picture I took is in this post.  The air was clean, cool and crisp, and the smells of fall were everywhere, along with a hint of rain.  For a few fleeting moments of driving back to my building with my windows down, and Angels & Airwaves in my ears, I was so happy I laughed out loud.

The experiences I had this weekend were all because of a simple state of mind.  This philosophy, while not necessarily classy or artistic, is aptly named.  "Why the hell not?"  Asking myself that question led me to one of the best weekends I've had in a long time.  So, I implore you to ask yourself the same question more often in your life.  Follow the "Yes Man Philosophy" more closely than your fellow man.  You never know how straying from your daily schedule and trying something different may affect your life.  Meet new people, smile at a stranger, do what others don't.  Doing so can help you live your life to its fullest extent.  After all, and this is my own personal quote, "Life is about the stories we could tell."