Good question.

The original impetus for the question?

This video:

This picture:

And because the Street Food Scavenger Hunt is beginning again!

Reasons why I must subject myself to this:

1. As much as an introvert that I am, I love performing.
Remember that online personality test (the website that was before okcupid…thespark?), against all odds, I consistently tested as a performer. Granted, it’s not my immediate personality. But I have this deep-seated harbored desire to…perform. When I took improv classes in 2007, I loved it. Although there’s definitely a side of me that hates being the center of attention, there’s this side that craves it, lusts after it…and will do anything for it. If it’s to entertain people or to make people think differently.

2. I have this insatiable desire to create
Once I was old enough to figure out the video camera, I latched upon it. I was the one in the family who came up with random ideas for film. Writing scripts. Doing a rendition of Alanis Morisette’s Ironic (I should find that VHS and digitize it…and get it on YouTube!) Stories. I have pent-up creativity that nowadays only manifests in short bursts like on this blog, cooking…and things like this. For now at least, this can be my creative outlet.

3. I want to make sure that I can look back on my life and say…I did something
Sure…I want to be known for something. That crazy San Franciscan who did multiple scavenger hunts in one year. But it’s not that. I often look back at my college years in stark amazement…that I did almost nothing beyond Rescomp, getting a bachelors and starting a blogging club. Granted, I am sure tons of other people feel the same way. My many regrets in life right now are the things that I did not do in college—study abroad, join more clubs, explore my interests in organizations, seek out support, take extra classes. Instead, many hours were wasted away…thinking about how I couldn’t do them. No, my years in SF are to be something great. Right now.