Project Fort: A Request

Project Fort: A Request

Today is the one year anniversary of The Brilliant Bastard and a huge milestone (as far as I'm concerned cue the streamers and confetti).  When I started this blog it was merely a place to get some writing out in the open.  Later on that Summer I found myself pulling over, cracking my laptop open in a bar and writing the first Project Fort piece.  I skipped work that day to do it.  I felt way to inspired to drone out at a call center.

Might of been one of the most satisfying decisions I ever made.Flash forward, and here I am submitting applications to Emerald City Comic Con and pricing out stickers and shirts.  Did my blog blow up?  Not at all, but my passion for my little internet homestead has.  So, I have started taking the steps necessary to reach "the next level" wherever that may be.

Project Fort at its core was just my way of putting my priorities and goals in line, with a clear destination on the horizon.  It was also a place for me to rally those to a cause:  to go beyond the person we were yesterday.  We have such potential such amazing chance and here we are feeling stuck and listless.  It breaks my heart to know that many of us won't ever seize the incredibly opportunities in our life.  The incredible opportunity that IS life.  It brings me to one of my favorite quote by Richard Dawkins:

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.  We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”

Which is why I want so badly to inspire and to inform.  There is much I want to do, and much I will do, but if I didn't write or share the knowledge I've gained or try to help others it would be the apex of selfishness.  To withhold and horde the information that has brought so much purpose and happiness into my life would be a crime.

I want to help others, and I've been doing so blindly.  Luckily, I've had some feedback and shares which have been a tremendous help (THANK YOU SO MUCH).  I am however, asking for one favor a kindness if you will.  Talk to me, leave comments, tell me what you want to see.  Are you interested in diet and exercise?  Are you interested in learning a musical instrument? Are you having trouble in school? Procrastination?  Do you want me to continue posting motivational quotes on Facebook?  I haven't pigeon-holed myself at all and I enjoy writing on a variety of topics, and am genuinely inquisitive so it you have a subject to write about or a suggestion let me know!  I will love you forever.

In Closing...
When I was day dreaming about the "Fort" (the more I say fort the sillier it sounds) it was never about standing alone looking at it finished taking all the credit.  It was always about all the people involved, everyone taking a sense of ownership.  That's what made it such a worthwhile goal in my eyes.  Everyone getting something out of it, everyone being proud of themselves, and the work they did. A sense of community.

-BB Out