Awake: How Will The World Describe What It Felt Like For You To Be Here?

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a fear of losing things. In college, I once called my little brother at 3 am to see if he could look for my Gameboy at home because I just had to know where it was RIGHT THEN! You get the idea. I’m crazy like that.

So also when I was in college I had an iPod and a North Face backpack on me at all times. The iPod was the first video iPod and had a whole 30 GBs of space that held some SNL skits and the theme song from Family Matters and Saved By The Bell. Awesome.

On the night of my best friend’s 21st birthday I drove him to get some wings and a beer, took him to his place and I come back to mine and go to bed. The next morning I get in my car, to find my passenger side door unlocked. I didn’t really think much of it until I got in, reached around for my back pack… and it’s gone. I think “Well maybe I left inside?” Nope it’s gone. Along with my iPod, several books, and $1.45 in pennies.

My worst nightmare, right? I couldn’t believe it. I mean who steals stuff?! We never found it and I had to learn how to let go. And it was hard. Not because I relied on those things. Not because of what they were. It was because I missed the way it FELT to have them.

I was thinking on this today and found that I also have a problem not wanting to lose memories of times spent with friends and people I love. That’s why I love what I do. I get to help people remember specific, once in a lifetime events and times in their life. I get to help them remember what it felt like to be in that moment and document it so that everyone that was there, or who ever sees it, can remember what it felt like to be there as well.

How will people describe what it felt like for you to be here or to be around you?

What are you doing… What am I doing to make the world WANT to remember what it felt like to have us here?

I want to be a “Waker” as Hugh McLeod calls them: “A waker reminds you on a constant basis, just how alive you really are.” Someone who talks to people like they’re real and that they matter as if they’re the only person in the room. I’m learning to be better at this. And I will continue to strive for it. Because If any one word is going to describe “What is Chris Creed like?” I want it to be: awake.

Awake or not, we will leave a mark on the universe. How big it will be and how people will describe it, will be decided in the work you do today. Go make something awesome.

Question:
What quality do you have that you want people to use to describe how it feels to be around you?

BE AWAKE!