Re: What you really, really want
Don the Monkeyman, on host 24.79.11.37
Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 10:44:07
What you really, really want posted by Brunnen-G on Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 03:40:48:
By the time I had the first opportunity to reply to this, a lot of people had already said a lot of the things that I would have liked to say. Not that this means that I can't say them, but this sort of thing always bothers me for some reason. Since then, somebody has said that a lot of the things they would have liked to say have been said. Well, I'm going to say them anyway.
-- Serve my God in the capacity He wants me to. This is the only one on the list that really matters to me, I think. All the rest are nice if they fit with this one, but I have already learned that no matter what I think I want, achieving this will be the most fulfilling accomplishment, and make me the happiest. -- Travel. I don't really have too many specifics on this, but I can name a few. I want to see some parts of Israel. I want to see a lot of Italy, because old Roman stuff is cool. I want to see most of Europe, actually. I want to visit the big deciduous forests in the US--I don't know exactly where they all are, but I have seen pictures, and I like deciduous trees. -- Get married. Of course all that stuff about finding someone I love and who loves me applies, but as far as I'm concerned, those things should be a given when you get married. -- Have children. This one is separate from the "Get Married" one because it IS separate. I would like to have children, but I think I can see situations in which I would be married and not want to have children around. -- Get really, REALLY good at an instrument or two. I'm actually working on this one, with the guitar, but I think I still have a long way to go. The piano interests me a great deal as well, but I worry that it would be a long, slow process. I own a tenor recorder, but for some reason, it just doesn't spark my passions in the same way. Vocals would be nice, but I suspect I would have to undergo major surgery in order to not sound like a dying hyena when I sing. I also have an interest in, and some small amount of experience with, bass guitar and drums. -- Learn to maintain a cleaner living space. I'm pretty good at keeping "public" areas like the living room and the kitchen clean, and if I lived on my own, those areas would be meticulously maintained, but I can never seem to keep my bedroom and study clean. It has been a lifelong problem, and it is one I would like to fix. -- Write. I don't know what I would like to write, exactly. A novel seems to be beyond my capacity, and I can't really think of much else. I know that I am not a terrible writer, but I also know that I have a long way to go before I could be considered "good" in the way that a novelist is good. Still, it is something that I have wanted to do since I was a child, and that desire sticks with me. -- Be better with computers. This is one of those things that can never be completely fulfilled. Fortunately, I do find myself making perpetual progress on this goal, albeit very slow progress. I would like to be able to write software that was useful to people, but the best way of achieving this (going back to school for a computer science degree) is probably not going to happen, so I'll plug away at it on my own.
That's about all I can think of right now. I suspect that I will come back and reply to this post later with more things that are not springing to mind at the moment, but I really can't say for sure.
Thank you, Brunnen-G, for starting this thread and giving me a chance to think about these things while sharing them with others.
Don Monkey
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