Damien Mulley, who does something-or-other for a living has a great, if succinct, posting about how following your dreams is probably a good thing.
I riposte with an equally pithy quip in the form of a series of questions.
What are the three most important things in your life?
Are you doing something for them right now?
If not, why not?
My three things are my professional life, my private life and my personal life.
Professional: My day job pays the bills (not really, but it will…). Infurious keeps my soul going. Other ideas will keep these two fueled and on the runway.
Personal: I think about my kids when not fixing tough IT problems – which means about 50% of the time. I enjoy my solitude in the evenings as it helps me focus. This blog keeps my “need to write” fulfilled.
Private: Obviously this has to remain private. Tonight I tried to fix something but, as usual, it’s still broken and it all ended in a fight. I’m reminded of a recurring theme in The Mexican
Dragging things back to Damien’s topic, I have dreams for each of these. I’d like to live somewhere a little more rural. Would need to be quite a big house, but nothing ostentatious. I want to stop fighting all the time in my day job – surely adults can just get along – I just hope we don’t lose the spark at the same time.
For Infurious: We have a heap of things on the Big List Of Things To Do. We discussed games too and we’d both like to put out at least one game (no, it probably won’t be on the scale of Doom 3). Would be cool to live in the same country.
I am working on all of these dreams.