I want

It's amazing to me how intelligent some people are and how, well, how uninformed others are. There is so much information readily available to us today thanks to the World Wide Web and all of the devices that make it so readily available like smart phones and the like. If you want to look up the definition of a word, find out how to make a certain food, or learn what how to say "pie" in five different language, pull out your tablet, smartphone, what have you and boom; there it is. You can go from being a horrible cook to being a champion chef by just looking up cooking videos on youtube and food blogs. You can learn how to tie twenty different knots by looking up a boy scouts or fishing site. There is so much to learn in a lifetime, but a lot of us don't take advantage of all the information that we have at our fingertips. I think I'm in the middle of those two. I look up definitions of words that are new to me from time to time, but I should learn how to do something new each week, no, each day, just because I can! It really impresses me when I meet someone who has a drive to better themselves. It shows passion for life and a thirst for knowledge. I want to be one of those people. I want to learn new things each day. I want to better myself. I want to be better than I am. I want to be a little opinionated on a few topics, because that means that I know a lot about a subject because I've read about it and spent time pondering various sides of an argument. I want to know what my favourite kind of wine is by tasting wines from various regions and being able to detect the fineness and quality of a new sample. I want to learn how to speak at least two more languages by the time I die. I want to really be able to speak them though; very well. I want to travel and see more than just a few states over from where I was born. I want to see the sunset from hillsides in numerous countries. I want to meet and speak to people who grew up and live on the opposite side of the earth from me. I don't want to regret not learning or knowing or doing something when I get older. I want to be proud of me. I want to be worthwhile. I want to be worthwhile.