Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Name Change

I decided to change the name of this blog. I wanted to come up with a catchy name that would make everyone go "wow." But that's too much about me and my desires ... therefore, I spent a few minutes thinking about it and picked the best one I could think of. I don't have a sense of how others will react to it, or if the will ever even read this. And that's OK.

I love collegiate and Olympic styles of wrestling - I am not a fan of so-called "professional wrestling." I wrestled in both high school and college, and I help out when I get the chance with my brother's team that he coaches. Wrestling has taught me many things that football, baseball, track, and cross country never did (not that they didn't teach me things unique to them). And I love the idea of 1-on-1 attack or defend with no place to hide and few breaks to take. 5, 6, or 7 minutes of some of the most intense physical activity around, yet without the brutality of actually trying to hurt someone as some of the more recent "ultimate fighting" sports have. You need to be a fairly well-rounded athlete usually to do well with wrestling because of its nature.

I also love ideas. Not just ideas for the sake of ideas, but ideas that impact lives - either in the short term or the long term. Something that can help someone be a better person today, or something that can help shape a society for the better tomorrow. I love talking over ideas with someone who is rigorous in their thought processes, who can counter and attack my reasoning as I seek to understand something better.

Thus, I want to wrestle with the ideas that shape my life. This could go a billion different ways - who knows? But that's my reason for this name and my hope for this blog.

And, to push the metaphor, do I expect to "pin" life? No, I just want to go the distance ...

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