Lali Ho!
Seasons greetings and all that, have a happy whatever it is you celebrate. Personally I plan to eat my already considerable weight in pigs in blankets and watch Die Hard so many times and get so badly sleep deprived I start hallucinating that it actually happened to me. But to each their own, at the moment I have something of a bigger issue.
When I was a kid I lived in a godless void known as East Heckington, Lincolnshire. A place so nowhere that I was there for nearly a decade and still can't find it on a standard roadmap. To pass the time when my older brother was hogging the TV and whatever games machine we had at the time, I wrote out a list of seemingly ridiculous goals to focus on as an adult. Missions I firmly believed were impossible as many of the items didn't physically exist outside of video games, and the feats seemed like things that only happen in poorly written fantasy novels. But today I have a serious issue with the list; I've done them all.
Even the most absurd requests from my terminally bored 5 year old self have been fulfilled. I escaped my evil parents nearly a decade ago. Beat my older brother at basically everything (clearly he didn't use his five year head start to get good at anything). I've found real love, started my own family, become a writer, musician, artist, even a published photographer technically speaking. Been in sword fights, become a hero, been on grand adventures. And as for the items I thought would be impossible? Done. All seven Chaos Emeralds? Found 'em on eBay. Just ordered myself a pair of Sonic The Hedgehog's shoes. Buster Sword? I own two. I had a pet wolf at one point (okay, Siberian Husky but close enough).
I could go on but you get the point. I've achieved all I set out to do and I find myself wondering what to shoot for now that even my most ridiculous childhood fantasies have been lived. What do you do when you've done everything you ever wanted in life? I've already got plans in motion for the bigger stuff in my adult life though obviously I can't discuss them on an open channel, the missus could be reading this and spoiling the surprise. I'm perfectly content with how my life is panning out. I have a wonderful girlfriend, an incredible daughter (despite her continuously pestering us for a little brother/sister and making conversations awkward), my career has hit a bit of a road block in 2020 but I've kept working at it and 2021 will change that very quickly. I've already arranged a new home for us, our future looks bright, there's nothing left to do there for now. Life is pretty sweet, all things considered.
I just worry that without any ridiculous dreams to shoot for, it might lead to that fire that kept me going all these years fizzling out a bit. I don't want to lose that zest for life, that passion for my work. So I need to set some new goals, as difficult to achieve as possible in accordance with the Dark Souls principle that victory tastes all the sweeter if you've spent years getting kicked in the nuts to finally achieve it. Trouble is how do I get any more outlandish than my old childhood dreams that most of us give up on without it moving into the genuinely impossible? There has to be a cut-off point where it can theoretically be done but the chances are so slim it'll require years of effort. Something to keep me going when the rough days hit, of which 2020 had more than its fair share.
So, anybody got any suggestions for some new life goals? I'm 33 and I've already set a pretty respectable high score in the great game of life. But only fools settle. There's always more to do, more to be, more to achieve. I just can't for the life of me think what it is right now aside from stuff I'm already doing as part of my daily routine. I need something big, something mega, some copious, something capacious, something cajunga. Cookie if you get that reference. I'll never lose that fire for my family and my loved ones, but having done everything I ever wanted in life, I need something new to stop me losing that passion for life in general. Suggestions welcomed. I'll consider any option that's physically possible.
Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful holiday of whatever brand you align with. I'mma go fish out my BluRay of Die Hard and get this process started.
Blaze.
Seasons greetings and all that, have a happy whatever it is you celebrate. Personally I plan to eat my already considerable weight in pigs in blankets and watch Die Hard so many times and get so badly sleep deprived I start hallucinating that it actually happened to me. But to each their own, at the moment I have something of a bigger issue.
When I was a kid I lived in a godless void known as East Heckington, Lincolnshire. A place so nowhere that I was there for nearly a decade and still can't find it on a standard roadmap. To pass the time when my older brother was hogging the TV and whatever games machine we had at the time, I wrote out a list of seemingly ridiculous goals to focus on as an adult. Missions I firmly believed were impossible as many of the items didn't physically exist outside of video games, and the feats seemed like things that only happen in poorly written fantasy novels. But today I have a serious issue with the list; I've done them all.
Even the most absurd requests from my terminally bored 5 year old self have been fulfilled. I escaped my evil parents nearly a decade ago. Beat my older brother at basically everything (clearly he didn't use his five year head start to get good at anything). I've found real love, started my own family, become a writer, musician, artist, even a published photographer technically speaking. Been in sword fights, become a hero, been on grand adventures. And as for the items I thought would be impossible? Done. All seven Chaos Emeralds? Found 'em on eBay. Just ordered myself a pair of Sonic The Hedgehog's shoes. Buster Sword? I own two. I had a pet wolf at one point (okay, Siberian Husky but close enough).
I could go on but you get the point. I've achieved all I set out to do and I find myself wondering what to shoot for now that even my most ridiculous childhood fantasies have been lived. What do you do when you've done everything you ever wanted in life? I've already got plans in motion for the bigger stuff in my adult life though obviously I can't discuss them on an open channel, the missus could be reading this and spoiling the surprise. I'm perfectly content with how my life is panning out. I have a wonderful girlfriend, an incredible daughter (despite her continuously pestering us for a little brother/sister and making conversations awkward), my career has hit a bit of a road block in 2020 but I've kept working at it and 2021 will change that very quickly. I've already arranged a new home for us, our future looks bright, there's nothing left to do there for now. Life is pretty sweet, all things considered.
I just worry that without any ridiculous dreams to shoot for, it might lead to that fire that kept me going all these years fizzling out a bit. I don't want to lose that zest for life, that passion for my work. So I need to set some new goals, as difficult to achieve as possible in accordance with the Dark Souls principle that victory tastes all the sweeter if you've spent years getting kicked in the nuts to finally achieve it. Trouble is how do I get any more outlandish than my old childhood dreams that most of us give up on without it moving into the genuinely impossible? There has to be a cut-off point where it can theoretically be done but the chances are so slim it'll require years of effort. Something to keep me going when the rough days hit, of which 2020 had more than its fair share.
So, anybody got any suggestions for some new life goals? I'm 33 and I've already set a pretty respectable high score in the great game of life. But only fools settle. There's always more to do, more to be, more to achieve. I just can't for the life of me think what it is right now aside from stuff I'm already doing as part of my daily routine. I need something big, something mega, some copious, something capacious, something cajunga. Cookie if you get that reference. I'll never lose that fire for my family and my loved ones, but having done everything I ever wanted in life, I need something new to stop me losing that passion for life in general. Suggestions welcomed. I'll consider any option that's physically possible.
Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful holiday of whatever brand you align with. I'mma go fish out my BluRay of Die Hard and get this process started.
Blaze.
