We escape our twenties by the skin of our teeth and on the brink of sanity to find ourselves awake in our thirties. Really awake - alert and aware in a way we haven’t been before. We’ve found our roots, our ideals and our morals, but we’ve lost our dreams to the hole in the bucket, dear Liza. This is where we look for ourselves in hobbies and past times that reclaim a fraction of the life we didn’t have the resources, the courage or the persistence to pursue when we had true youth on our side.
Lost in my own personal rush-rush, careers I dreamed about but never chased:
* DEA agent
* Nutritionist
* Drummer
* Flight attendant
* Private Investigator
* Writer
Things I haven’t done, but plan to (ongoing list you’ve seen before):
~ Take a bellydance class
~ Learn to play the drums, the cello or the harp
~ Run a full marathon, no more half marathons
~ Sky dive
~ Laugh…a lot (on going)
~ See the pyramids
~ Learn to snowboard
~ Stay in a treehouse in Fiji (or at least south Georgia)
~ Continue to be thankful (on going)
~ Swim nekkid in a big bright blue ocean with no one around for miles
~ Learn to ride (aka drive, man, command) a motorcycle or scooter
~ Finish at least one script and submit it
~ Compete in a biathlon or triathlon
~ Grab a cheap fare and split for Paris or London on a whim
~ Travel on a whim more: Paris, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Brussels, Amsterdam, Madrid, Zurich or Rome
~ Go to a concert, deal with the crowd, and be happy about it
~ Play a team sport and not freak out about it
~ Learn to knit
~ Take a photography class and buy a better camera
~ Get a job I love getting up for every morning
~ Swim with turtles
~ Go back to school to study world religions
~ Make a difference
E tu?
11 Apr 07
8:57 am
I loved your ongoing list. Good stuff on it…
A photographer with Nat’l Geographic, Marine Biologist, a Forensic Investigator/Anything, FBI Agent, A Foreign Relief Aid Worker.
11 Apr 07
10:15 am
I would totally hire you as a private investigator. But I always expected you to be a photographer/writer for National Geographic (with Tabitha, of course).
Depite what I *wanted* to be, I always thought I’d be a librarian, lawyer, or police officer. Control issues, much?
http://www.jenniferinc.com/blog/?p=67
11 Apr 07
1:46 pm
carpe did it —-> http://www.texas4000.org
future goals are to pass this blasted spanish class…i’m a scientist, not a foreign languagist.
after that…grad school.
maybe you should apply for the peace corp. you could write a script about your peace corp adventures. it could entail swimming off the coast of fiji with turtles. studying the religion of the indigenous peoples, waking up every morning thankful that you are making a difference for the indigenous people, laugh with them as you try to learn to play their indigenous drums, and then go back to your treehouse and sleep the joyous night away.
but thats just a suggestion
11 Apr 07
6:19 pm
my m-i-l is learning to play the harp. if nothing else, it is a beautiful piece of art. . .
i’m taking a break from bettering myself-my grad classes just ended. now i’m going to slum it and ride bikes again.
12 Apr 07
8:50 am
Dan, I think you’re on to something.
Mega, that rules. Gratz.
13 Apr 07
7:53 am
Is it weird not to have a list? Not that I don’t dream of doing things but nothing is set in stone (linguistic joke). Maybe getting better at everything! but that’s hard to do when you are as lazy as me.