Get Excited

So I'm going through my regular Friday routine, which consists of just one class and going to the cigar shop on Kiester road by Slippery Rock University.....wait...I'm getting ahead of myself.

You all should know me if you are reading this blog, but if you stumbled across me, this is my title. My title is Ian Heilman, student, cinephile, bibliophile, and brainiac extraordinaire. The last part might be a slight exaggeration. But I am smart in my own mind. You might get to know me through this blog.

But anyways, I'm at the shop talking to Joe, and this guy walks in, about 60 years old saying he's lived in the area for years but never found the place. His name is Tim, don't know his last name. I can tell you that he looked like a kid in a candy store standing in Joe's walk in humidor. He asked me to walk in with him and give him my top 5 cigars. It took me a while to even start to rank them, but I must say, this man was very adamant about cigars. He's saying this and that about this cigar and that wrapper and on and on. So i had to as him why, i asked him "Why are you so excited about cigars?" This is what he said.

"You've got to be excited about things in life. I tell me students you've got to go out there and do things and enjoy life. When you are six feet under, that's just too late to start."

Forget the story I just told you and focus on that statement. I'll wait for you.............did you read it? I bet you did, but read it again and when i say read, I really do mean READ it. Let it sink in.

Live your life. In college there are so many things to do, classes, parties, girls, or if you are a woman, guys, r gay...well you know what i mean. THere are clubs and frats and papers and road trips and late night poker games and what not. But what you have to do in the end is this. Find something that you love and do it. Get excited about something. I never fully understood what i was going to do with my life, and i still don't, but my major is something that i love. I love my cigars, I love my family, I love college.

For those of you who think i'm just nuts by posting this, you guys....come on, really?

Anyways, that's what i learned Friday, and i will never forget where and when it was taught to me.