Christmas Gifts
Searching for deals online for all the presents I came to relize that I am buying all the toys that I wanted when I was a kid as presents for my brothers. To give them things that I most desired when I was a kid.
These actions must be a pattern of being a parents. Rushing their kids to piano practice or tennis, or encouraging us to travel hoping in a way to make up or fill in their desires/wishes/dreams in their children.
Not to sound selfish, but I want to fufill all those desires and dreams myself. I don't want to sit down and wish that I should have and could have. Which related to an espiode in Scrubs I recently watch and got addicted to, where an old grandmother is ready to die. However, John Dorian wish to keep her alive so he made a list extending several pages long of stuff one must do before they die. As he list them off the grandmother just nod her stating that she been there and done it already. That's what I want to be. Someone that been there and done that. Someone that always have a story, and that story will always be told differently each time I am ask to recall it. ;-)
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Go and do it: choose your own adventure. Pay off debt, save a couple of thousand, and then ride off into the sunset. When you return the world will still be spinning and the 9 to 5 will be ready to suck you up, but you will have just hiked through the Sierras or toured Europe or been to the Australian outback. Most people settle into a life and say "Oh, gosh, I would love do some day." By someday they mean never; they live off of the dream instead of the reality. Go and do one of the things your want to do--you have nothing to lose exccept the daily grind and the idea that adventures are for other people and shows on Travel Planet!
Posted by: Tom | December 11, 2004 01:47 PM
(grr, yet again MT preview decieves me. That sentence should read "Oh, gosh, I would love to do XYZ some day.")
Posted by: Tom | December 11, 2004 01:48 PM