Out of curiosity, and relevant to my last post

[hipikat]

Poll The Future

Comments

[vegetus]

I am amused at how my definition of "big, BIG plans" differs to those of other people.

[hipikat]

I'm amused that no one who's said yes except angriest has come close to catching my meaning :P Except possibly gotica, depending on sincerity.

[tommmo]

You don't think buying a house and having children is a big plan?

[hipikat]

Of course not - that's what almost everyone else is planning on doing.
That makes it an average sized plan by definition :)

[tommmo]

Right, I didn't realise "big" meant "unconventional". My bad.

[hipikat]

Well it probably wouldn't usually, but BIG in all-caps was meant to carry some of those connotations :) Poll is mainly motivated by trying to figure out whether I'm at that age where the majority of my peers are "settling down".

[tommmo]

It's funny that you look at it that way. I've been in the process of settling down over the last couple of years, and I've done more large-scale, forward-thinking planning in that time than I have over a number of years before that.

Perhaps you should've phrased the question differently. "Projects" may have been a better word to use than "plans" :)

[hipikat]

I think my intention would have been much better conveyed by replacing "Do you now have big, BIG plans?" with "Are you still a wide-eyed dreamer?"

[tommmo]

Right, that makes much more sense :)

[vegetus]

Oh you are, well I am and you are only a few months younger than me.

However I have found that when friends start settling down and breeding I tend not to have much to do with them anymore. This is mostly because I don't care for baby talk and people with babies tend to be really busy with them.

Also people who are married/in major relationships tend to do lots of coupley things so you have less time with them without their partner or they look disapproving at your casual flings.

settling down

[ext_109062]

Time passes differently for me. I think this is because I tend to hold onto "good" ideas for a long time, and not pick up new ones very easily. (And also because I tend to focus more on learning than on "being" or "doing".)

The people I like to hang out with tend to be the weirder kind of geeks and other alternative folk, due to their unconventional life patterns and general interestingness. Ditto on the thing about kids.

[whitefang]

Okay, just read these comments. Curious :)