Crazy

One of the things that I do periodically is get excited about doing something crazy. I accidentally watched a short video of a guy building a boat while browsing YouTube videos, and I got excited and decided to build that boat. I bought the plans for $199 and purchased the videos of a guy building the entire boat. You don’t watch every minute of the build, just the key parts. The reason it is crazy is because it is 28 feet long, will weigh 6,000 pounds when completed, will cost approximately $20,000 to build without the motor, will take about 2,000 hours to complete, and I will have to build a covered area at least 30 feet long and 12 feet wide to build it in. I will have to drag the construction time out to at least 8 years to afford it and have time with everything else I do to complete it. Let’s see, eight years will make me 85 years old. That is probably too old to take a boat out in the ocean unless you are crazy. Oh well, it will keep me busy with something I enjoy until I die, and I can will it to one of my grandkids to finish and use. When we were in Texas last week in this church that had 50,000 people coming to it, hearing the story about the Pastor who started it, I decided that the people who did those kinds of things were people who had really crazy ideas and dreams and were bold enough to pursue them. Probably the technical description would be people who are not afraid to fail, because fear of failing is probably the number one reason more people don’t attempt crazy things. I write a lot more goals for crazy ideas than I ever actually attempt. But writing about them, dreaming about them, buying blueprints for them, and watching videos of them is fun and only costs $199.

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