CURRENT MISSION

To be free from a life of routine, to truly realize how big the world is, to feel at ease wherever I am, to drink wine with good friends, to see mountains, dance my ass off, and to take advantage of thing we call our life.

ABOUT ME

Almost everyday I have to ask myself the question "who am i?" and most of the time i have absolutely no idea. It's kind of hard to say because I'm sure the image of me in my mind isn't entirely true. A painting of a landscape isn't entirely true, it may look like the real thing, but it's missing out the sound of the winds passing through the grass, the insects, the unity of it all. So the image of myself will only be a a painting, but i guess its the next best thing until you meet me in person.

So here goes,

My name is Justin L'arrivee, I'm french-metis Canadian but i don't speak french :( Its lost in history somewhere, but I'm making it one of my life goals to relearn it and pass it down. Also another one of my life goals is to learn to play classical piano, i think i may put that one off until I'm an old man, but who knows.

I'm 18 right now, just graduated highschool and suffering from that post grad purposelessness. According to the tao, life is purposelessness, so maybe i'm going in the right direction. Ecclesiastes said that life is vanity, which i entirely don't believe. Anyone on this website would back me up on this, the world and all its beauty is not in vain.

this is why i want to travel, i want to know first hand as much of this planet i can possibly see; i want to know people, to experience an entirely different way of living, of speaking, of loving. Lots of people spend their entire lives in a small area, maybe one city or town, one house, a few jobs, and their world seems small and their problems seem big. Sometimes i feel this way, but in the back of my mind i know there is so much to see and i know that my problems aren't so big.

Just think, there are mountains as big as cities, rivers as long as countries, continents. There are billions of people, all different and unique, all living out their own lives. How a person one sit in a small square room and not want to go out and explore. Children don't, even exploring your backyard makes the world seem a million times bigger.

Interests

Bicycling, Reading, Movies, Festivals.

• insects
• beauty
• concerts
• festivals
• dancing
• wine
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• piano
• camping
• history
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Before Sunrise, Best of Youth, Pleasentville, 2001 a Space Odyssey, The Shining, Motorcycle Diaries, Into the Wild, Dreams, Deadman.

Music: Pretty much anything that'll make me want to dance, or cry.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Winnipeg Folk Festival, it changed my life forever. Its the one and only week that i think about almost everyday, probably one of the best concert/party/camping experience I've ever had.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some basic drawing :)