I almost died...
Hell no. Was he insane?
My heart raced. Half excited and half terrified. Well, 95% terrified.
A man with beefy arms and an unruly beard pulled out the monster. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Then, as if it was completely normal, he placed the damn thing around my neck. It took two men and my tiny ass to hold it up.
I will give my dad credit. He showed me a few things in life. The bottle might have killed him and most of my memories are hard ones, but on this day he was a hero.
I was six.
I was standing in a pet shop at Lenox Mall. This was before the Roman Empire, so the pet shop is no longer there. I also remember a man with a monkey in the middle of the mall. The man played music while a small monkey ran up to people in the crowd and grabbed the money. I thought it was the greatest business of all time. The man even trained the monkey to only grab bills so you couldn’t get the monkey to grope you if you only had quarters.
I stood there, paralyzed, with a gigantic snake across my shoulders.
It had to be at least 12 football fields long and as thick as an airplane. It was massive. I was tiny. I had never touched a snake before, much less had one wrapped around my neck.
I still remember how it felt. I remember how it smelled. I remember everything. It was mesmerizing.
It was the greatest day of my life.
I fell in love with snakes on that day at that moment.
My mom never let me have one growing up because she HATES snakes. So, when I got to college, I went nuts. I lived in a small dorm room in the fraternity house and had over 30 snakes. Big snakes, little snakes, nice snakes, mean snakes.
A 12-foot python I named Chuckles bit me on the face one time. Half of them escaped and the cooks even found one in the kitchen wall. That was a bad day.
I graduated from college with a Zoology degree partly because I loved snakes. I was studying to go to Veterinary school to become an exotic animal vet until I got rejected, twice. Apparently, they considered my grades over my passion for snakes.
Passion.
Steve Jobs said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.”
Carmine Gallo says, “Passion is a puzzle. Most people know it when they see it, but they have a hard time discovering it for themselves.”
Chris Garner, the man Will Smith portrayed in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness, went from sleeping in a subway bathroom with his two-year-old son to a millionaire stockbroker said “the secret to success is to find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.”
What is your passion? Are you doing it? Do you even know what it is?
For me, it used to be snakes. Then it was performing. Now it is traveling and writing.
Tomorrow starts a new month.
What if you figured out your genuine passion next month? Or, if you know it, spent more time doing it?
My next 30 Day Adventure program starts tomorrow. It is one of my passion projects. Helping people do things they once thought impossible. Helping people figure out their dreams, passions, purpose.
If you want some help to figure out your passion, purpose, or plan for 2022…join me.
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Trey