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same_differenceSo tomorrow I turn 30. Which to be honest is just a number, given significance due to the base 10 system we tend to use for general counting. I tend to hold to the view that birthday's happen regardless so either ignore them or enjoy them but don't let them upset you; though I stick to the enjoy them camp personally. Plus I write this knowing that I'll feel somewhat different in two years time when my younger brother turns 30, and my sister hits a different mile stone age. That'll be weird. My being 30 not so much.*
*Also it helps having parents and many uncles and aunts in their 60's and a granddad working through his 90's redefining what old age means.
I suppose it would be natural, or maybe just expected, to take stock; I mean this journal charts some nearly 10 years of my life, but I've got no need to go back and read all of it. I'm currently engaged; I have many and varied great friends (and numerous interesting acquaintances); I own a great house; I have a good job I generally enjoy that pays me a pleasant amount; my health is better than I perhaps deserve given how little effort I've really spent maintaining it. Things are good, they could be better, there are always areas of self improvement of course, but as always I only have to look around a little to feel I shouldn't complain (and I really should do more for others). I have no bucket list, I don't see the point, not that there aren't things I want to achieve (there are) but I don't feel the pressure that I suppose bucket lists always imply to me, to have achieved them by a certain date or somehow have failed at life. I've spent my life generally doing things I enjoy, working hard (though perhaps not hard enough or at least as hard I could) when I've needed to and living the kind of life that appeals to me. I got better at not wasting time these last few years, what I need to do going forward is get better at prioritising my time, so that the things I want to do and need to do get done, instead whatever I feel like at the time.
So I think I'll turn 30 and set myself some goals, so when I hit 40, and 50 and however many multiples of 10 I manage, I can look back with the same calm happy serenity I can generally view my life with as I do now.
So:
- be everything Rachael deserves and more
- prioritise better
- be more reliable
- be less selfish with my time
- learn more (so much fascinating science/world/universe and not enough time spent learning it/about it)
- maintain and improve all my wonderful friendships
- be healthier
That ought to do I think. For a decade or so at least.
*Also it helps having parents and many uncles and aunts in their 60's and a granddad working through his 90's redefining what old age means.
I suppose it would be natural, or maybe just expected, to take stock; I mean this journal charts some nearly 10 years of my life, but I've got no need to go back and read all of it. I'm currently engaged; I have many and varied great friends (and numerous interesting acquaintances); I own a great house; I have a good job I generally enjoy that pays me a pleasant amount; my health is better than I perhaps deserve given how little effort I've really spent maintaining it. Things are good, they could be better, there are always areas of self improvement of course, but as always I only have to look around a little to feel I shouldn't complain (and I really should do more for others). I have no bucket list, I don't see the point, not that there aren't things I want to achieve (there are) but I don't feel the pressure that I suppose bucket lists always imply to me, to have achieved them by a certain date or somehow have failed at life. I've spent my life generally doing things I enjoy, working hard (though perhaps not hard enough or at least as hard I could) when I've needed to and living the kind of life that appeals to me. I got better at not wasting time these last few years, what I need to do going forward is get better at prioritising my time, so that the things I want to do and need to do get done, instead whatever I feel like at the time.
So I think I'll turn 30 and set myself some goals, so when I hit 40, and 50 and however many multiples of 10 I manage, I can look back with the same calm happy serenity I can generally view my life with as I do now.
So:
- be everything Rachael deserves and more
- prioritise better
- be more reliable
- be less selfish with my time
- learn more (so much fascinating science/world/universe and not enough time spent learning it/about it)
- maintain and improve all my wonderful friendships
- be healthier
That ought to do I think. For a decade or so at least.
