Bored to Death

Fight Club came on the other night, and it made me think of how we run our everyday lives. I am constantly looking for something profound enough to blog about and I began to wonder how many of us do something on a daily basis that make us feel as alive as Edward Norton and Brad Pitt?



I deal with life and death everyday. I work with patients in pain that would make most of the population grit their teeth hard enough to bite through a ninja block and scream for their mothers. I get a rush out of conquering that type of obstacle and collecting the grateful "thank you"s at the end of a shift. I work a fast paced, highly skilled, high pressure job and I walk out of work everyday thinking 'Damn, I just did all of that?'



It keeps me coming back for more, but I wonder if everybody else has something like that? I'm not so sure.



I feel like my fast paced job is my dose of excitement. You see those commercials "Skiing is my drug" and other nonsense, but in reality, I think that people need that. They need something in their lives that regularly gets them a natural high. It keeps you on your toes, keeps you driven and wanting more from life. If you look around at society, the happiest people are the ones that get excited on a regular basis.