[Dahut-pm] Walking With Dahuts

Douglas Wilson dgwilson1 at cox.net
Sat Jun 30 01:10:44 PDT 2007


Replying a year late and a dollar short...

Kip Hampton wrote:
> 
> You know, having to make a living sucks.

To paraphrase the bumper sticker, the best day working can't
beat the worst day, uh, doing something else :-)

> Are you really happy with what you're doing? Not just interested, or 
> thankful to be in a position to pay the bills mostly on time, but 
> fulfilled? Is that enough? Are you doing what you always thought you 
> were "meant" to do? Is that question even meaningful anymore?

It's relative. I gotta say, I'm much happier at my current job
than I was at my last one. Though it's still impossible to stay
interested, challenged, fulfilled, etc. 8 hours a day, five days a week
(maybe I should move to France...then maybe I could cut down on the
hours :-)...but when I do get bored, they have this great coffee
machine with about 16 different flavors of tea & coffee :)

> Are you on course? If not, can you change it? What would it cost you to 
> put your dreams to the test? Are you willing to pay that price?

I've just been reading the Life magazine issue, "The Greatest
Adventures of All Time", and if I could, that's what I'd want
to do...ski across Greenland or Antarctica, ride in a submarine
under the North Pole, make a documentary about dahuts, become a
lumberjack, go into space, climb Mt.Everest or El Cap...ok, maybe not,
but I do feel some inner need to go on some sort of Adventure(tm).

But then there's that whole kids/family/responsibility thing...and
that's fulfilling too, but...

So, when time permits, I try to go on miniature adventures in my own
backyard...in fact, tomorrow, I'm going to try to bike to the top
of Santiago Peak, which is the tallest mountain in the.., well, it's
the tallest mountain that I can see from my house...except on
a really clear day when I might see the San Gabriel Mtns...but
biking up those would just be plain crazy :-)




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