keeping your options open sometimes only leads to the same old options being leveraged over and over and over.
so what'll it be? open endings or open beginnings, fresh slates or the ability to move?
i guess i don't really get where this bit COMMIT theme is coming from.. seen it in a few responses here. ... i'm not having any trouble commiting to anything, i don't think i ever have. its more like a questions of what's my strategy and what are my real goals, which are kind of one and same question. options and resources are indeed somewhat separable, but also closely intertwined in important ways. resources, though, to me are more like complexes of ideas tied to physical entities tied to communities of like minds. that's a resource.. a structure.. though you can take and find those kinds of things wherever you go. the hard part is that to do certain things you need a certain comfort level.. i.e. to work on personal projects you've got to have the whole housing/food/money issue solved enough to not make it top priority. then, you need the supplies to do your projects. anyway, i'm not really concerned about any of this, i was just musing on it.
yeah, its weird that some of you seem to have gotten the wrong idea from my original post... in fact, i've gotten a few misunderstood responses lately. what i think about it though isn't that i 'gave people the wrong impression' but that people tend to find what they are looking for in things before they notice what's actually there, before they actually read what i wrote and think about why i might have written it the way i did... instead there is an assumption that it's a very typical kind of post/comment. if anything, its just a much a reflection on the reader as on the writer....
Re: yeah, its weirdrycodeApril 3 2002, 18:54:54 UTC
the commit thing probably works like this:
saying that you have questions about what your strategy is and what your real goals are seems very similar to saying: i don't have a real plan yet, and (putting it together with your first post) you're not sure if you want to do this thing or that thing or the other thing, and you'd like to do all those things without having to not do the others.
so when i say commit, i mean:
commit to doing one. damn the others. you'll find out if you've made mistake, and then you'll know more about what you really want to do.
(obviously.)
and as much as i'd like to say that everyone finds what they want when reading other people's posts, you do write vague as a sonofabitch.
yeah, its weird that some of you seem to have gotten the wrong idea from my original post... in fact, i've gotten a few misunderstood responses lately. what i think about it though isn't that i 'gave people the wrong impression' but that people tend to find what they are looking for in things before they notice what's actually there, before they actually read what i wrote and think about why i might have written it the way i did... instead there is an assumption that it's a very typical kind of post/comment. if anything, its just a much a reflection on the reader as on the writer....
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saying that you have questions about what your strategy is and what your real goals are seems very similar to saying: i don't have a real plan yet, and (putting it together with your first post) you're not sure if you want to do this thing or that thing or the other thing, and you'd like to do all those things without having to not do the others.
so when i say commit, i mean:
commit to doing one. damn the others. you'll find out if you've made mistake, and then you'll know more about what you really want to do.
(obviously.)
and as much as i'd like to say that everyone finds what they want when reading other people's posts, you do write vague as a sonofabitch.
not that there's anything wrong with that.
rockon.
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