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you get to decide….
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you get to decide….

written by Jana October 23, 2012

I’ve been working on a bucket list of things that I’d like to do.  It’s a crazy list, ranging from easy to impossible.  But it seems worth putting it all down in writing somewhere, to refer to when I get a hankering to pursue a new goal.  If you’re interested, take a look.

So many of the things on this list I would have written off as impossible a few years ago–for example, I can remember when I was 28, telling a friend that I’d never ski again.  Because I was already too old.

Perhaps the gift of turning 40 is the realization that it’s now or never…and simply not letting impossible enter into the equation.

From the “Impossible Manifesto”

Excitement comes from not quite knowing what’s coming next. When you travel the road that everyone else paves for you, it’s fairly easy to know what’s next, because they tell you.

When you pave your own, you have no idea. No one has ever done what you’re about to do. You can have reference points from mentors but for the first time in your life, no one is telling you what’s up ahead.

There’s bad news and good news:

The bad news: Nobody can tell you what’s next.
The good news: Nobody can tell you what’s next.

You get to decide.

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EBrown October 23, 2012 - 7:42 pm

Lately, I too have been contemplating what I want to do. Travel is one thing I’ve never done as much as I wanted to. I want to get my book published. I want to get stronger and more flexible. I want to cook more. Laugh more. Take time to embrace my love for doing art. Get crafty.
Even writing this short list makes me happy. However, I’ll pass on skiing bc when I went for my first lesson, I fell tearing my anterior-cruciate ligament. The ERMD said that he would never put skis on even though he lived in Tahoe. Just sayin’.

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janaremy October 23, 2012 - 9:18 pm

Vajra: I broke a good many bones the first time I went skiing. But I haven’t stopped (yet). It’s such an amazing feeling to go swooshing down the slopes. The instructors that I skied with last year told me that I’m a bit of a daredevil, but also I have a pretty good ski-sense. I think some of it comes from spending so much time reading the waves…

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EBrown October 31, 2012 - 3:52 pm

P.S. Not at all trying to discourage you: just sharing what I know I won’t do. :)

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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