When is the best time to stop scheming and dreaming and start acting? This is something I have been pondering more and more. I have plans and dreams and ambitions. So when do I start making them happen? As of right now, I still trying to decide on what is the best way to get where I want. I've got the job that I love...now I just need the place where I can settle. The other stuff (husband, family, etc.) is supposed to come after I find my place. Or at least that is my plan. Though each time I type plan, I am reminded of a lyric, " Life is what happens to you while you're busying making other plans". Or what Dad says, "If you want to hear God laugh, make plans."
So I love my job but it needs to be in another place. My number one pick would be in England. I have wanted to move there every since I can back for graduation a couple of years ago. Number two would be just abroad. Out of the states... I find wanting to see and do things not of this land. Something beyond my current cultural state. As to exactly what I am not sure. But I am sure of this as I am that I am me. If I have to stay here in the states, out west seems to where I am currently leaning.
So what have I done thus far? I've got my resume posted with the DoD. Not my first choice but it is an option as getting hire elsewhere outside of the states is a bit of a problem. Why couldn't Mom have an insane desire to live in Australia for a good part of her pregnancy with me I'll never know? If Angelina Jolie can do it... I also cruise the job sites and I have found some but I have yet to persue any of them. I am afraid of either getting in or not getting in. What a dilema... I am no good at following my own advice. I keep telling P to try for the scholarships even if she wouldn't get it but I wouldn't do the same for a job.
What do I do? Well, I have 3 months til my probation is up here. The worst they can say is no. So bring on the apps for all three places. Vive la vie...
Good day and live the life.
4 comments:
If you sit and plot and plan and ponder, you will face two results.
1) Robert Burns:
“The best-laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft agley (=often go wrong).
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.”
You'll finally act and discover that none of your plans will work out the way you intend them. Does this mean you have failed? Of course not! It just means that you have found a different path than the one you plotted. Burns was a little fatalistic, but its still a nice quote.
2) Henry David Thoreau:
"Most people lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to their graves with the song still in their heart."
You'll never act. You'll continue sitting, plotting, and planning until Death comes to collect his debt. You'll waste away in the cultural abyss that is Jacksonville, FL. And you won't sing your song.
And some how, you not singing just doesn't seem right.
I've sadly given up on dreams of working abroad. I'm happy here and I figure I'll just go on trips everywhere else.
Good luck with your ambitions
Joseph Campbell said follow your bliss and wonderful things will happen. I did and they did. You are young (I think) and have a lifetime to enjoy. By all means do what will make you happy now.
If you want to move to England, it is now compulsory that you learn the laws of cricket.
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