From hps_sterling
1. What is your plan to get life going in the direction you want it to?
You are assuming that I even have one. The fact that I haven't had a plan, or even a direction I want to go, is the central thing that has been holding me back from getting things going. I have big dreams, big ambitions, but no real plan to achieve them, and no drive to get there.
I tend to live in the moment, not thinking to much about the future or the past, since doing either is somewhat painful. It doesn't help that in the past, most of the time, any plan I had fell completely apart on me. This is likely linked to my abandoned Mormon upbringing, as while I was a part of that church, my life was pretty much planned out, from beginning to end, for me. When I left, I left that life plan behind, and I haven't really been able to cobble together another one for the last 13 years.
Right now, I'm feeling very much like a song from Switchfoot:
"Fumbling his confidence
And wond'ring why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's meant for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Dreaming about providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken, broken
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life"
-- Meant to Live
2. If you had spare time and money wasn't an object, what would you do?
Travel. I'd go to Bavaria, see Neuschwanstein, go to the Czech Republic and Slovakia to see where my great grandparents came from. I'd also want to go to England and Scotland, as well as Greece and Egypt, mainly for spiritual reasons.
3. Favorite Shakespeare play?
This tends to shift, depending on my mood. Sometimes it's Romeo and Juliet, sometimes The Tempest, sometimes Much Ado about Nothing.
I tend to like the comedies over the tragedies, and I have yet to be able to make it through any of the histories, reading or in performance.
You are assuming that I even have one. The fact that I haven't had a plan, or even a direction I want to go, is the central thing that has been holding me back from getting things going. I have big dreams, big ambitions, but no real plan to achieve them, and no drive to get there.
I tend to live in the moment, not thinking to much about the future or the past, since doing either is somewhat painful. It doesn't help that in the past, most of the time, any plan I had fell completely apart on me. This is likely linked to my abandoned Mormon upbringing, as while I was a part of that church, my life was pretty much planned out, from beginning to end, for me. When I left, I left that life plan behind, and I haven't really been able to cobble together another one for the last 13 years.
Right now, I'm feeling very much like a song from Switchfoot:
"Fumbling his confidence
And wond'ring why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's meant for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Dreaming about providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken, broken
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life"
-- Meant to Live
2. If you had spare time and money wasn't an object, what would you do?
Travel. I'd go to Bavaria, see Neuschwanstein, go to the Czech Republic and Slovakia to see where my great grandparents came from. I'd also want to go to England and Scotland, as well as Greece and Egypt, mainly for spiritual reasons.
3. Favorite Shakespeare play?
This tends to shift, depending on my mood. Sometimes it's Romeo and Juliet, sometimes The Tempest, sometimes Much Ado about Nothing.
I tend to like the comedies over the tragedies, and I have yet to be able to make it through any of the histories, reading or in performance.