Why Life Chips?
Hello reader - I hope you're doing well in this mid September heat - I'm writing from San Diego and am dreaming of East Coast fall weather.
I thought I'd kick this off by explaining the name of the title I've chosen for this blog: Life Chips with Sydney. So - kick your feet up and make a warm beverage. It's story time.
Back in the early days of university, I had started thinking, as one often does at this stage in their life, about bucket lists, my purpose, what everything around me meant and how I fit in. It was all quite overwhelming while at the same time thrilling. I knew that in order to live the kind of life I want to live, dreaming in all its forms would be necessary.
The problem was that a bucket list seemed too cut and dry for me (I thought of it mainly in terms of one-time experineces) such as "go skydiving - cross that off your bucketlist". Whereas I wanted to do so much more than one off activites. I wanted to do things that require some kind of investment. Sometimes money, but often time and energy.
One day my thoughts noodled themselves to the board game LIFE. The memory of the life tile flashed before my eyes and I saw a tile saying something along the lines of "learn a new language, get $200,000". Of course this is a just a game, but the principle of celebrating a new skill gained (and I realize while I write this that the life chip itself is agknowledging an ROI for said skill - which I'm excited to think more about) was what stuck with me.
Enter my Life Chip System. Then and there I decided that I would have a life chip list/system. Items from a traditional bucket list could be on it, but the beauty of it is that it celebrates more than one time experiences. It celebrates the fact that I have a motorcycle liscence, the fact that I'm currently bilingual, working on multi-lingual. It celebrates me creating this blog.
It celebrates courage and boldness to try new things and to be a beginner. It also celebrates small moments that often are overlooked. This system helps push me out of my comfort zone in the best way possible. It helps me celebrate life in a way that I really cherish.
This list hasn't manifested itself physically yet - though I've been saying for a long time now I'd love to do an art piece around it. I'm picturing soda bottle cap girlscout badge style for each of my life chips. Perhaps this blog will be the start of my life chips taking form. Anyway, that's the story behind the title of this blog - I'm really proud of my life chips.
My challenge for you reader if you made it this far is to find one thing this week - big or small that you've made either made progress in or even just cherish (a memory, an item, a conversation with a long distance friend, it could be anything!), and celebrate it. Hold space for it and do a dance. Think about it and smile. Cheers to it. Because it's worth celebrating. I promise.
