August 25, 2009
Things By 30
I’m 23. In seven years, I will be 30. I have already begun some important changes, a steady vegetarian/vegan diet and weekly steady yoga, all things that are important to becoming the sort of person that I am, just not yet. These are a few of the things that I would like to do by the time I am 30.
1. Visit Iceland
2. learn to sail
3. own a catamaran
4. learn to fly.
5. own a small plane.
What are your middle-distance goals?
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This is cool, AMM. I think it would be delightful to fly a small plane.
But I wonder if I, at 55, am allowed to have middle-distance goals. Maybe they better all be a little closer in.
Cooper, you just have to calibrate your distance. That’s what I do.
You are allowed to have short term, middle distance, and long term goals at any age. We are all becoming, and that is part of it.
Indeed. If I had 24 hours to live, there would still be a short, a middle, and a long distance.
I pretty much hit reset about three years ago, so I am still trying to figure that out.
Right now, I have no idea what I want.
I’m still trying to nail down the basics – a job I enjoy, and a place to live that’s small but perfectly appointed. I have a hard time seeing past the immediacy of those two. But in five years… I’d like to have lived in the same apartment in the same city for at least three contiguous years, kept a job for more than two, and written a couple of dozen short stories.
Not quite as exciting as learning to fly or sail, but as I said, I’m still hunting for the baseline.
Oh, my own apartment. Good heavens, next year when this lease ends will be fantastic. I am sick of having roommates.
Why I went back to that after living alone is beyond me.
oh, the things I would like to have done by 30.
Things I’d like to do by the time I’m 30:
1. Cycle from my mom’s house in Summit County, Colorado to Santa Fe, New Mexico. *
2. Fall in love again.
3.
Finish reading Infinite Jest.Write down my own Erdedy-chapter.4. Forgive my sister. *
5. Scan my analog cameras’ negatives.
* Assuming my mental health remains on the successful track it’s been on over the last year, I will accomplish this at some point within the next year or two.
I have four years, a month, and two days left.
Small boat, cruise the BC islands.
Season’s ski pass instead of snatching weekends.
Become a Park Ranger (there’s a theme here).
Learn to cook some great food, not show off look at me food, but just some good quality dishes that aren’t in my current repertoire.
Andrew – I feel your pain – apart from a few scattered weeks here and there, I’ve never lived alone. Regardless of anything else, my next apartment will be just for me. I can’t wait.
Amanda, here is a suggestion for your small plane (can I go for a ride if you get one?!):
http://www.iconaircraft.com/light-sport-aircraft.html
Catamarans are really fun. If you can, try and take lessons on a Hobie cat
http://www.hobiecat.com/
They are so easy to sail, fast and fun.
My only goal/hope is that Life doesn’t fuck up the Marfa plan.
Thanks Dave, my eye has long been cast upon the Hobie 14 or 18. We’ll see. I like the smallness of the 14.
And I think 140k planes are a biiiiit out of league.
Ya, I didn’t say I’d be buying one either (unless that lotto hits), just looks badass! I love the picture on the website of the guy in his plane surrounded by wave runners. Makes it seem like such a everyday thing.
Good plan on the Hobie! Makes me wish I had taken a refresher class this summer…
1. Return to the states
2. take more photos
3. Take better photos
4. Be in the states for longer
5. My photography to finance itself. Or at least move in that direction.