Is this where you thought you would be? When you were in 6th grade did you think your life would look like this?
I don't know. I've been thinking about that a lot as of late; is this where I thought I would be in life? In an odd sense, I never really thought I would be anywhere per se. It's not that I lack or have lacked ambition, or a sense of direction; I just don't so much feel there is a destination. I think one of the most startling things that could happen to me is to feel as if "I have arrived" so to say. I'm much more the journeying type. What about you? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts about this existence thus far. Feel free to email me too if the comments section is too confining for such inspirational introspection.
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I think that people's desire for the feeling of arrival is the source of much of life's unnecessary discomfort.
It may be because they just did "Ireland" on Globe Trekkers, but I think that going for a long walk is the most fitting metaphor for a content life. As you walk, you see a landmark you'd like to get to, so you go there and enjoy it. Then you see that there is something else you want to look at so you wander over to it. On the way might find that there is something else you might like to see better, so you wander that way instead. Maybe you spend some time helping someone out or decide to build a cairn to mark a particular point on your trip. You might find a nice looking rock to throw along the way or meet someone who walks along the path with you for a bit.
And as you go, your feet get sore and your back gets bent, but you rest a bit, pick up a stick, maybe, and keep walking.
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I can't say where me as a kid would have seen me. Guess I don't remember. I do remember a high-school feeling of not ever wanting to have to cut my hair, then later I wanted to cut my hair. Kind of took the burn out of my 16-year-old's angst.
Well put...I would like to think my high school self would be understanding; but I'm not so sure. But I think my high school self had more issues...so take THAT high school self.
This is off topic, but maybe this is sometihing you could try where you work?
Maybe "Genie in a Bottle" for the second number.
I was totally lost when I hit 25. My reaction was "Wait... I'm still alive? And I can rent cars? The world is now upside down and I don't have a map!"
So then I started planning and I'm where I wanted to be, maybe a bit ahead of schedule. And now I'm planning again. Soon I will be a master of strategery and other fake words.
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