1,000,000 POUNDS OF DIRT
By
JARED SIX
A PROJECT TO HELP DEMONSTRATE THE OUTRAGEOUS AMOUNTS OF ENERGY THAT I HAVE ON A "RAW FOOD DIET"
"Groundbreaking"
I worked on this project when it was over 100 degrees outside, as well as when it was below 0 degrees, and I enjoyed the challenges that came with the changing weather.
There was a big dead tree in my yard, so I decided to dig a big grave for it.
(Throwing all of the logs into the hole was one of the most fun workouts I've ever had!)
If you live in the city, don't bother spending $20 on a "pull-up bar" that you install above a door in your house. Just go outside, dig up your city water pipes, and you've got yourself some free "pull-up bars"!
Just kidding...
PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!!!
Going deep!
Another pipe I found while digging.
CALL BEFORE YOU DIG
This hole resulted in some unexpected company.
I guess that digging big holes in your backyard can be seen as "suspicious activity" from above.
A "Channel 10 News" helicopter showed up at my house while I was digging this big hole, and the pilot dropped down and circled the hole several times while looking right at me and yelling into his headset. (I couldn't hear what he was saying due to how loud the chopper was, so I just waved and kept on digging :)
Well, well, well...
I dug a well without even trying to!
My intention with this hole was to simply dig the deepest hole that I could, and it honestly never even occurred to me that I could hit water by doing so.
But once I got really deep, I noticed that the dirt was starting to have some moisture to it, and I eventually found myself standing in a puddle of water. And I kept digging until the water was up to my ankles, then my knees, and then my waist!
As a bonus, it's pretty cool to know that I could dig a well if I ever needed to.
When I was digging in the waist-high water, I kept getting this eerie feeling that the ground below me was going to collapse at any moment and that I was going to fall into some kind of underground river. (That might sound kind of silly, but I had to keep a rope tied around my waist just to help set my mind at ease about it.)
THE
"UNDERTAKER"
By this point, my neighbors must have been convinced that I was burying dead people in my backyard.
So I decided to prove them right!
This small hole was the last hole that I dug, and before I filled it back up with dirt, I used it as a "grave" to bury a box containing all of the old pictures of me that I could find as well as some other old things from my past that I wanted to let go of now that I was becoming such a different person thanks to my health journey.
"The old and limiting beliefs about myself and the world around me that no longer serve me."
I measured all of the holes that I dug and logged their dimensions into online "dirt weight calculators", and I didn't stop digging until I hit the 1,000,000 pounds mark.
A total of 4 shovels and 1 rake broke on me while working on this project.
All of the rocks that I dug up during this project.
I decided to use the rocks to make a border around the land where I did this project, and I'm happy to say that what for many years had been an empty backyard will now be an organic vegetable garden.
"Prehistoric Pet Rock"
Heart-shaped rocks that I dug up during this project.
So what was the point of digging 1,000,000 pounds of dirt?
There were certainly a lot of physical benefits that I received from doing this project. (Like getting lots of exercise and spending more time outdoors.)
I also had a lot of fun doing this and am seriously wondering now how "digging" hasn't become a competitive sport in some way.
And now that I have done something this big, I know that I can handle smaller challenges that come my way.
But I didn't do this project for any of those reasons.
This project was all about "Love".
If someone out there sees these images and feels inspired to exercise, or start a garden, or simply buy some more fruits and vegetables the next time they go grocery shopping, then I put this extra energy that I have been raving about to good use, and I accomplished what I wanted to with this project.
My energy levels on this diet and lifestyle aren't just on "HIGH", they are on "NATURAL HIGH", and I just want to find creative outlets to put this energy to good use.
I believe that anyone has the potential to change their life for the better. I also believe that anyone has the potential to change the world for the better, and now that I believe it, I'm going for it!
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