At the beginning of every summer, I tell myself there are certain activities I want to do or goals I want achieve in the course of the subsequent months. In the past, this list has included seeing a baseball game, reading 25 books, losing weight, going to Cedar Point, writing new music, and really becoming dedicated to photography as a hobby. Yet, year after year, this list seems to reappear and even increase, while I continue to spend my summers laying around, playing video games, binging Netflix shows (not even the good ones) and coming up with excuses not to pursue my passions…

So about a year ago, I was on my way to work, walking on a concrete sidewalk, with the sun rising to my left, and a cool breeze in the air. It was a very dramatic and almost cheesy morning, as I’m sure you can tell. Anyway, as I approached my final destination, there was the tiny snail on the sidewalk…