Are You Enjoying The Journey?

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Do you have theoretical Place Where You Intend To Be (geographical, carer-wise, whatever) in X amount of weeks/months/years? Are you focused on this to the detriment of tha Here'n'Now? Are you inclined to make certain sacrifices now in the belief that you'll benefit from doing so at some point in the future? Do you feel that your present quality-of-life is less than it could be due to single-minded tunnel vision Eye On The Ultimate Prize?

Or not?

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex! Thanks for the CD, btw! I love my art print. One question - - are you a bit mental? ;)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

~~mental~~ eccentric!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, that came out really wrong! I love that ROC song, haven't heard it in ages.

Back to the subject.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus, this thread concept gives me the fear. Really.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

My alleged eccentricity mostly extends to overuse of hyphens, which is extremely feeble as these things go.

You are, of course, entirely welcome.

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think 'carer' was the word I was after there, apologies.

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

it's all going pretty much according to plan thanks. Wasn't much of a plan but it works for me.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

met a woman in america who has 5-yearly, yearly, monthly and weekly plans. she sits down at the beginning of each week to check progress and make adjustments, etc.

she's very succesful i think. i was terrified.

no-one i'm close to has any idea what they want or where they're headed.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 1 May 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like them as much since Steve Perry left.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a bloody destination? Jesus Christ, I'm just trying to muddle through. I didn't know there was somewhere we were supposed to be trying to get to!

If I *had* a career plan, I'd have said that I totally failed at it. So I'm glad that I don't.

However, lately, I've been less and less happy with the direction the journey is going. In fact, I think I'm on the wrong path and have been for some time. I think I may just give up music entirely and go back to school and study pure mathematics or something like that.

― kate, Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I've no plans but it doesn't bother me.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I've "already" arrived at my destination but will continuously keep arriving closer to it - especially when my Jupiter major period starts really kicking off in 2010 - but none of this applies to me since I don't "believe" in the linearity of Time!!!!

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The journey is most fun without STDs, btw!!!

― Vic (Vic), Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Personally, I don't subscribe to the theory of destinations in life, as once you get somewhere (geographically, emotionally, spiritually etc.), there's always a chance that you will want to be somewhere else. Or, more to the point, the process of bettering oneself is continual, and is infinite, as you can always be better.

Obviously, having some idea of where you are going is a good thing, but strictly following the map may mean you miss out on some stuff.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I try to maintain a healthy balance of remembering/learning-from (but not DWELLING ON) the past, preparing-for-but-not-obsessively-fantasizing-about-a-specific-possible-future, and focusing the majority of my attention on The Infinite Possibilities of The Now. The Now is a very important thing to me; why do you think I'm on this website reading-&-posting and not doing blandtacular insurance hoo-haw? Cuz I want this to be the best Now I can, cuz it's the only Now.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd rather live down South than here in the Midlands. But it isn't going to happen anytime soon. The 'journey' isn't a whole lot of fun if you're stuck in an area you dislike, but I think I've come to terms with it a bit better lately.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This is all right and good, I can RELATE, Christine.

I don't really know anyone who meticulously plans their every single life-stage either, I was just curious as to whether anyone does in the belief that this will create the most productive financially/emotionally successful existence possible. Or something. I'l probably come back and attempt to articulate the thinking behind this after I've eaten.

(Certainly I'm completely incapable of making such plans, my main concern is that The Journey is currently only occasionally as fun as it should be. But we'll see)

― alexfack (alexfack), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

No, I'm fucking hating it. This is the bit of the journey where the tube lines are down, the bus won't come for another forty minutes, you don't have enough money for a cab. it's pouring down with rain and the junkies and winos around Kings Cross station are starting to eye you in a speculative fashion.

Bad question to ask today. I feel like I should have given up once I reached base camp. (See 'early signs of promise' morphing into going nowhere with no money). Sorry, as I said, bad day.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I have tried to plan things in the past and it's gone pretty pear-shaped usually. That's just me -- I'm sure a plan that's, er, well planned can be a great idea. I think I've down-sized my expectations on most things and take very little for granted these days, as a defence mechanism against disappointment.

This sort of works. I seem to be less stressed out on the whole (bad days notwithstanding) and I think my blood pressure's grateful about that, if nothing else. :-)

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't meticulously plan, but i have wanted to go back to ny for some time now and i am in the process of doing so. i know all about the "dream deferred", however, as I have been putting off dealing with certain aspects of my life in favor of others. for instace, I have not been concerning myself too much with my love life as I am living at home, I can't afford to spend much money, and I don't even have enough free time to shave.
i myself have never been too goal oriented, but, and especially when i was at school, the goals of others for me have been voiced often.. it will be nice to finally get to nyc, where my only goals will be to make friends and buy clothing and furniture ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(but of course Journey are great! :)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 1 May 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Been everywhere I ever wanted to go, done everything I wanted to do. None of it was worth it, what a waste of time.

― dave q, Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

in an upscale restaurant with Don't Stop Believin' blaring:
"Sir, how is the duck?"
"Oh, it's excellent."
"And are you enjoying the Journey?"
"Mmm yes very much so, thank you."

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking "yes I do have those plans" but when trying to type it out I realized how incredibly vague they are! At some point in my adulthood I want to be traveling places, being an archaeologist or oceanographer or nautical archaeologist or something like that. And enjoying it OR ELSE.

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 1 May 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(Send that one to the Classic Q list...)

― the pinefox, Friday, 2 May 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

No, no plans - closest would be that if I can avoid being sacked because of the time I miss through illness, I'm on for a promotion at the end of the year. That's not a plan, more a natural consequence of experience and ability, really. Geographically, I'd like to move closer in to Central London, but that's not what you'd call a plan.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It sounds like a lyric doesn't it, Pinefox?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 2 May 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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