Sunday, January 31, 2010

www.glowpunk.com 'Your value as a human'

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Your value as a human


            You are invaluable. Opinions and beliefs are human constructs. There are no rules, no boundaries. Everybody including yourself will attempt to apply a method of measurement to you at some stage of your life. Whether it is a government institution grading you in exams, or a person for whom you are hoping to work. Measures will be applied whether you like it or not. Just remember that they are as irrelevant as you choose to make them.



            Do not to become a slave to opinion, REBEL. Remember to glow your own way. Living up to other people’s expectations is neither productive nor fun. So why not take a chance and risk it all being slightly different. Not different just for the sake of it, but because you feel drawn in a direction. Like an invisible force pulling you towards the reality that feels best for you. Why live someone else’s dream?



            Fight conformity, when you do you will be surprised with what happens. Like all new ideas, your ideas may first be ridiculed. Secondly, once proven to work your ideas will be accepted as great. And finally your idea will be copied by those who ridiculed you in the first place.



Don’t let those who do not know how to glow destroy your dreams. You are here for a short time. Be aware that you are going to die soon because that will remind you how important it is to take action now and glow. You are as young as you will ever be. Now is the time to do the things you want to do!



'Glow and Live'

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

www.glowpunk.com ...Glow and Live

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Dear World,

This isn’t just about surfing,
There is no doubt about it surfing has become an addiction for many ‘glowers.’ And I have just recently taken up the habit. Wow where has the former me gone. I find myself continuously thinking about hitting the road to the waves. The emotions involved are akin to those involved with those I feel when I am chasing a girl.

The thing is I'm not really that good. I appear to be picking it up pretty quick in relation to others of similar experience, but I have so much more to learn. The beauty about surfing for me is the close connection you feel with nature and the sheer simplicity of the apparatus required to play. A board and a wave, how simple can a sport be? How natural!

At first I was frustrated with the 'quality' of the waves that I seemed to draw to the beaches where I surfed. In my head I felt like a dissatisfied customer who was unhappy with the waves, as I would be unhappy with a faulty television. I found that I was complaining about the waves as if they were not up to ‘industry standard.’ But there is no standard. I soon realized waves were as irregular and as individual as you or I.


After a wave or ten I realized that these waves were not being genetically modified or mass produced to appeal to the customer. These waves were as irregular or as regular as ‘Mother Nature’ intended them to be. In a moment of clarity whilst riding a wave I realized that there is no mathematical equation more appealing to ‘glowers’ than those that are least exact, most irregular and most unpredictable.

Like waves we too are irregular, slightly skewed, and vary in dimension and depth. I truly believe that the reason that surfing can hold the attention of so many for so long is because as humans, the varying characteristics of waves are completely in tune with our internal biological equations. Perhaps the chaos theory associated with waves and seemingly irregular things is in sequence, with the human spirit and body.



Is an affinity with nature the secret to life? Is chasing an affinity with nature the one worth while endeavor? Will surfing allow me and you to transcend this manufactured existence? Modern living has evolved far faster then our genes and natural bio-rhythms have. Only when in contact with nature are we really living?

I put it to you that our bodies are totally out of sync with our everyday environment. We humans are the square peg in the round hole that is our world.

Start smashing off the shackles of modern living and begin to think. You get one stab at this life fellow glowers. Are you going to chase the Jones's? School, college, year traveling abroad, job, car, partner, house, mortgage, pension, then wish you lived your life differently as you lie in your hospital bed.

A simple question.
What would you rather be doing right now?


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‘Glow and Live’


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Friday, January 29, 2010

www.glowpunk.com Pragmatism 3

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Pragmatism 3

         As if making a fly hook for one of his many salmon fishing trips on the boyne my grandad carfully bound the base of the ugly mole tightly and cut off the blood supply to the offending party. After a week the starved and shrivelled mole simply fell off. The newly beautified patient spread this story years later.

        Sometimes the most simple action is the best course of action. Sometimes not taking action is the most enticing route. But remember life is very short. Take action. Glowers take action.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

www.glowpunk.com Pragmatism 2

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Pragmatism 2

The surgery was on the ground floor of his house on the Dublin Road in County Louth. In his home he was never far from a fishing rod or a spool of fishing line. (He was never far from a rifle or rounds either, but that is another story) after some light banter and discussion about the best course of action my grandfather reach into his desk drawer, mentally measured a small length of fishing line and snapped it with his hands. Glowers take action....to be continued.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

www.glowpunk.com Pragmatism 1

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          A patient of my grandfather entered his surgery nervous and ready to go under the knife. For years a mole of considerable size had been growing on the head of the balding patient. There was no longer enough hair to cover the ugly growth, and the patient decided it was time to take action. Like any glower would

          My grandfather had always been a keen fisherman, and I guess living in the country in a rural area he had witnessed the castration of some bulls on his visits to farmers houses... to be continued

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

www.glowpunk.com Grandad 3

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Grandad 3


           Above the surface everybody was silent, nobody dared to speak for fear of jinxing the rescue attempt. Silence and inaction is always the safest option but glowers is it the right option. Below the surface, adrenaline, the overwhelming desire to save another human and the knowledge that he was running out of breath drove my grandad deeper into the cold dark waters of the quarry. Finally, after a number of dives ,exhausted and close to hypothermia Alex freed the workers lifeless body from the barrels below and managed to raise it to the surface near the quarry edge.

         To late to save the quarry worker's life, but not to late to set an example and shape the mind of a not yet born glowing grandson.

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Monday, January 25, 2010

www.glowpunk.com Grandad 2

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Grandad 2

         On the move he carried out an assesment, his mind working fluidly. Narrowing down the options as if instantaneously. He grabbed a hunting knife from his car and began gathering information from those around him as he cast his shoes off.

         At the same time an onlooker arrived with a length of rope and proceeded to tie one end around my grandfathers waist. Before anyone in the gathering crowd could grab the loose end of the safety rope Dr. Alexander Moore was fighting his way down to the trapped worker below. Those above could only watch the bubbles rise, the rope move, the splash from his dive fall and the ripples from his hasty rough but functional dive fade.  Was he the only glower at the scene? Speed was of the essence.... to be continued

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Grandad 1

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Grandad 1

           I was very young when I heard this story first and its been a long time since it has been recounted, but because of the nature of the story and the actions taken by my grandfather it has stayed in my mind for over 20 years.

            Arriving at the scene of an accident in a waterlogged quarry, my grandfather took action while others stood around frozen by panic and confusion. He was a glower. With youth on his side and a razor sharp mind, my grandfather leaped from his car. A man was trapped beneath some barrels in the chilly mirky quarry water deep below the surface.... to be continued.

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

www.glowpunk.com 'Fight the Power'

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Frog

            I awoke one night in Liberia Africa to a strange noise. We were in a jungle area sleeping in tents underneath the moons glow. The perimeter of our patrol harbour was secure, or so we thought. Surely nothing could disturb us, or get at us, but something did. A small frog was making every effort to jump over my tent. Repeatedly he jumped against the man made wall of my one man tent. Each time he tried he slid back down to earth. At first my conditioned mind thought ‘silly creature,’ but I was wrong.



            He was not failing, quite the contrary. Through his many attempts he was learning. He also succeeded in waking me up. Not just physically but mentally too. And who is to say with persistence he would not achieve his goal. He was taking a stand. He encountered something new and unknown that night and instead of going around it, ignoring it or pretending it didn’t exist he chose to question and struggle for his innate desires . That night froggy glowed!



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Friday, January 22, 2010

www.glowpunk.com Perspective

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Put Life in perspective

        There is a vista point near to where I lived as a child. When ever I am home I drive up there at least once. Perhaps it is escapism or perhaps it is just about putting everything in a more healthy perspective. From the vista point high in the hills the whole city is visible. By day you can make out the different towns. Each flagged by a towering church or man made object. At night lights of buildings, streets, and traffic glow.



         Neither in the day nor in the night can you make out a single human being. From the vista point only man’s creations are visible. Somewhere between and inside the countless buildings glowers reside smothered by modern living. Who wants to join glowpunk on the vista point and head deeper into the hills for some adventures. Remember fellow glowers life is short. Glow and live!


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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

www.glowpunk.com Flashback

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Life in the army flashback


          It is freezing cold. It is raining hard. There is only enough light seeping through the leaking clouds to see the tip of the north arrow glowing on my compass. I’ve been carrying a backpack that is as heavy and as awkward as an old lady for 9 hours with no more than a total of 20 minutes rest. The strap from my weapon is cutting into my shoulder



           But I am content. I am happy and I will persevere. I know neither the distance left to travel nor the distance I have walked. I know only that I am alive and that I am glowing…. I never liked late night TV anyway. When was the last time you glowed?


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Dear World,


It is 6.50am and I am at home alone sitting in perfect silence. I was out last night with the lads got in around 4 and have been up since. I was designated driver so I haven't had a drop. My mind is free untainted and crystal clear.



The reason I can’t sleep is because I am on the cusp of something. Exactly what, I don’t know. I have this overwhelming feeling of being pulled in a direction. All I know is that it is away from the well worn path



I need to travel and experience, and I need to begin now! A month abroad after a year of work is not enough. I want to be a vagrant with no agenda except life experiences and fun. I want less responsibility, more living on the spur of the moment. More reality not this manufactured fake modern reality crud that has us all working and striving for objectives we don’t really want.



The way I see it is this, there are two real worlds that are running parallel to each other. There is the materialistic school, job, car and pension world and the Mother Theresa, Vasco de Gama, Che Guevara raw world.



For too long I have toed the line and settled for the reasonable, the normal and the safe, and I am NOT going to continue on this souless vein. There is a world out there and a life of adventure out there waiting to be discovered.



I am not going to let whatever insecurities other people have on life affect how I live my life. My mind is an adventurers mind. A mind that takes a chance and doesn't think too far in advance. A semblance of a plan is essential but flexibility is essential. Some might say that this philosophy is naive but I think it is the ‘scared to step outside their comfort zone people’ that have it all wrong. To me they are conformist senseless creatures, and they are getting sucked into the ‘Borg Ship.’ They are not ‘glowers.’



Well I say let them follow. Let them serve to the hum drum society they live in. It allows glowers like you and I to buzz around on the fringes of the ‘acceptable.’



If everyone was to glow like us the world would be too crazy too unpredictable. So it is better that there is only a few of us glowers.



So yeah enough waffle and talk. I'm leaving my job. I'm putting college on hold for however long it takes and I am taking my savings to spend on what feels like a real life to me.



What am I saving for anyway? I am here for another 100 years max (very optimistic). On a grand scale there is no point trying to leave a legacy or trying to prove yourself to anyone on this planet by having a big house or a flash car. 10,000 years from now do you think anyone will care? You and I certainly won't. We are here for how ever long we are here for, and with out wanting to rush anyone... every second you spend trying to achieve material goods is a second wasted trying to acquire the antithesis of life.



I admit that sometimes there is a necessity for material goods, and sure monetary wealth comes in handy but to put any stock in material goods or to allow yourself to be defined by them is moronic.



Don’t get me wrong if I make a load of money I will welcome it, but that will come to me doing something I believe in. I firmly believe you can only really be great at something you like.



So my fellow glowers do you want to come for the ride and smash off the shackles of modern day living or ‘wallow in the habitual and the banal.’



‘To each there own’ but mine is not the average it is the exceptional. Be true to yourself!


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