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Jul. 13th, 2009 08:21 amAs part of my OU stuff, I have to consider "What do I want my life to be like in 10 years time".
This is actually a very difficult question, as I have very few ideas as to what I want now, or what I am truly interested in. They suggested splitting it down into three groups, the classic "who", "what" and "where".
For the 'who', there is obviously friends and family. Family is clearly all the current family that I have at the moment and hopefully a girlfriend, but friends is difficult. I don't have a lot of friends, and none that I could call close friends. That is one of the things that I have always lacked, due to a mixture of not really being able to communicate well with people, and, it has to be said, a certain lack of desire for friends. While the desire for friends is growing, I don't think the ability to talk has improved at all over the past few decades.
Where is almost a null question. I don't notice much where I am, except for the lack of certain facilities that I have come to appreciate – a good book / comic shop within reasonable travelling distance, and a coffee and fast food place close by. I'm beginning to feel the need for a home, rather than just a place to live. The flat is OK, but I need somewhere that I can set permanent roots down in and customise to my requirements. I need at least one more room that I can convert into my 'library', which will be filled with bookcases full of books and comics, and will have art on the wall, and will (if I go this way) have a drawing table and a sewing table for me to play with.
'What' is the big one.
What do I want to be doing in 10 years time? What do I want to be doing know? Lets start by eliminating a few things. I'm not particularly bothered about travelling. I've 'done' New York, Canada and Australia, and while I wouldn't mind going back to Canada, possibly long term, that's more than enough travel.
What I want to be doing is something 'creative'. Possibly still developing software, but not necessarily writing the stuff, but working on the other areas, such as design, user interactions, etc. More high level than just stuff to feed to the compiler. I also like the idea of the creativity of writing / sewing / drawing (as can be seen in my home design, above), but I'm not sure if it's more than that.
I want to have done something that is bigger than just for me. Maybe something that earned me recognition for what I did, but I think the knowledge that I did it would be enough, rather than the external validation that comes from being known. It might also be something that would live on after me in some manner – I doubt that Linus Torvalds contribution to life is likely to disappear quickly.
This is actually a very difficult question, as I have very few ideas as to what I want now, or what I am truly interested in. They suggested splitting it down into three groups, the classic "who", "what" and "where".
For the 'who', there is obviously friends and family. Family is clearly all the current family that I have at the moment and hopefully a girlfriend, but friends is difficult. I don't have a lot of friends, and none that I could call close friends. That is one of the things that I have always lacked, due to a mixture of not really being able to communicate well with people, and, it has to be said, a certain lack of desire for friends. While the desire for friends is growing, I don't think the ability to talk has improved at all over the past few decades.
Where is almost a null question. I don't notice much where I am, except for the lack of certain facilities that I have come to appreciate – a good book / comic shop within reasonable travelling distance, and a coffee and fast food place close by. I'm beginning to feel the need for a home, rather than just a place to live. The flat is OK, but I need somewhere that I can set permanent roots down in and customise to my requirements. I need at least one more room that I can convert into my 'library', which will be filled with bookcases full of books and comics, and will have art on the wall, and will (if I go this way) have a drawing table and a sewing table for me to play with.
'What' is the big one.
What do I want to be doing in 10 years time? What do I want to be doing know? Lets start by eliminating a few things. I'm not particularly bothered about travelling. I've 'done' New York, Canada and Australia, and while I wouldn't mind going back to Canada, possibly long term, that's more than enough travel.
What I want to be doing is something 'creative'. Possibly still developing software, but not necessarily writing the stuff, but working on the other areas, such as design, user interactions, etc. More high level than just stuff to feed to the compiler. I also like the idea of the creativity of writing / sewing / drawing (as can be seen in my home design, above), but I'm not sure if it's more than that.
I want to have done something that is bigger than just for me. Maybe something that earned me recognition for what I did, but I think the knowledge that I did it would be enough, rather than the external validation that comes from being known. It might also be something that would live on after me in some manner – I doubt that Linus Torvalds contribution to life is likely to disappear quickly.
