See, I’m a chickie who prefers to go with the flow, see where life takes her, ‘place self in mildly interesting setting and just add drinks’!
And this approach definitely ensures life can get very interesting. Keeps you on your toes. You never know what you gonna get…
Or where you will be for your impending Change Of The Decade! Rah!
But I have discovered a problem here. A slight ‘glitch in the system’ ,if you will.
That while you have many laughs and gawddamn-I’m-glad-I’m-came-out-of-that-with-no-wait-no-dignity-left-but-at-least-I-have-my-purse-this-time moments in your past, your present and future definitely start to get a little sketchy and more tricky to navigate.
This guy I live with (and there is only one, despite how that might have come out) is the opposite. The guy who has covered all bases, researched down to the last colour, pixel and impending cost of that issue going awry, and then gone with a completely different option. After a few years of watching him I am starting to realise this sneaky thing.
There are times in one’s life where it might actually pay to be prepared. To have a plan. To have done some background research, pre-answered all possible questions, considered the possibilities and weighed the debatable scales.
That if I wanted to keep dancing on table tops and nearly adopting street kids from Melville pavements at 3am, then my approach is killer. Strap a camera on my forehead and send me forth!
If I want a job, success in some form of a “career path” and even a “5 year Plan” outline (and someone please shoot off my right toe for using those phrases), if I want to pass a job interview, or go on an amazing trip to celebrate all that has been up until 30, then I might need to have a fucking clue.
Right. So. Where does one start finding the patience to outline and weigh away and plot towards this Clue? And do these activities come with cheap cocktails?
[And if you tell me “The Secret” or some other Oprah-esque answer, then I might be the one putting shots into your right toe.]
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5 comments:
Bwaha is you find the answer, please give me a pre-million buck book peek, ok? Never mind sitting and planning, first you have to figure out what you actually want, and if that is even feasible or wise to want. And I can never even get that far.
Fuck it. These days I just wing it. I make it ip as I go along. :)
I think knowing where you're going is highly overrated. You miss out on a lot of scenery along the way if you're too focused on what's ahead.
Po; exactly! "What do you want" - Uh, I want to have fun exploring weird situations & seeing where I land up! ... the recruitment agent didn't appreciate that answer & I notice she won't respond to my emails anymore!
Or as my partner put it, "yes, you want to study a higher degree in your 'social science' field? But why? To be a more qualified unemployed person?" Yes!! Yeah!
Spear, fuck it indeed! I reckon I might not give up this way of life to easily either.
Louisa, my only problem is, I need to afford the petrol on the way! :P
I got The Secret for Christmas - it's awesome in its awfulness. I coul mail it to you.
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