The concept behind #LiveLifeBeyondMedyo came from a somewhat likely source – Twitter. The social media app played a major role of the activity that was happening in the crowd of at least one-thousand two hundred (1200) during opening introductions of The Dream Project PH 2014 held in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental Province, The Philippines while I was there as one of fifteen (15) Filipino Youth Imagineers invited by Master Organizer and IdeaCube Founder, Prim Paypon.
As it happens, my name became synonymous to the repeatedly “hash-tagged” word, medyo (filipino/spanish for “a bit” or “just a little”. Something that was only put to my attention that evening after dinner accompanied with laughter and banter. That being said, it was a perfect combination to what I’d had already been using as a”hashtag”, which was #lifelivedtothefullest, which wasn’t as original as I thought once I really took every YOLO type instagram into consideration. So, #LifeLifeBeyondMedyo was born: A combination of all the memories created during “2013: The Greatest Year of My Life” and “2014: The Best Start of the Year I’ve Ever Had in My Life”.
This blog will be what I have struggled to find a home for, my true self. It will occasionally mention my company, KinetIQ, as well as my passion project, The BeKinetIQ Foundation, as they a reflection of my principles, my aspirations, and my mission to make a difference in this world. This blog may also occasionally mention Baseball New Zealand, of whom I am employing the same passion, knowledge, and experiences I had from being in MLB for 8 years, as well as my current drive to create a successful start-up.
What this blog will truly display, and I hope to have it act as such, is my online logbook on life. I have had many paper journals that I’ve written on, many notebooks that have made a mark on my back pocket, many electronic devices and recorders that hold precious memories of the journey I’ve been in for since I began backpacking alone almost 15 years ago (yes, it’s been that long), but even more so the stories I will begin to remember from my youth, from taking trans-pacific plane rides alone when I was 2nd grade, to my exchange programs in Japan and Indonesia in junior high school, to the 14 proms and balls I found myself invited to in high school. I hope to use this blog as a platform to display content that could possibly end up in a book one day, and actually challenge the notion that people would want to read it. We’ll see.
So if you happen to read this, whoever you are, and feel excited for the possibility of coming on an adventure with me, past, present, and future, hang on for the ride, because “Life’s too short to be lived mediocre”. Gratitude for you time, patience, and passion.
In Gratitude,
EBV