Napsterbater
06-25-2008, 04:17 AM
Just bought my plane tickets last night. My budget precludes Argentina, as I'll be traveling on savings. Spent $520 on the plane ticket and should have about $2600 to go with. (Buenos Aires is a thousand bucks, and the standard of living is higher; I'd much rather learn Spanish than Portuguese, meaning no Brazil for now.) I plan on filling the weeks up with Spanish, guitar, and dance classes, partying at night, and really taking the whole mini-retirement thing seriously, i.e. using it to get out of my current mental state and into a more productive one. My loose plan after I get back is to go back to school, get a degree, and go from there. Maybe I'll have an idea for a muse (the sheer amount of work those require is mind-blowing, and I don't want to jump into it without a clear idea of what I want to do) by then, I hope.
It's funny, how I thought my life would go after I graduate (be an Air Force officer for ten years, then get out and make a civilian career) and what I'm doing now. (dropped out of the Air Force after two years and working construction for three years) I always wanted to do something big and huge with my life, but always just ended up doing nothing. I like to think someone one day might want to read some wisdom I could share from my experiences in discovering that life is never what we bargained for, very, very little of the things we ever think ever make sense, are useful, or are even meaningful; (Tim Ferriss seems to be the exception! That man is a serious inspiration! If only we all could be so clear-headed!) my struggles with shyness and overcoming it; and my efforts to take the most mundane life and making it interesting; overcoming the tendency of American life to emasculate men and find my own masculinity.
Maybe one day I could have one of those self-help guru deals, or something else entirely. I have no idea. But at 24 I guess I can afford to still be on the fence. I'll probably end up doing all of it. All I know is, Colombia, look out!
It's funny, how I thought my life would go after I graduate (be an Air Force officer for ten years, then get out and make a civilian career) and what I'm doing now. (dropped out of the Air Force after two years and working construction for three years) I always wanted to do something big and huge with my life, but always just ended up doing nothing. I like to think someone one day might want to read some wisdom I could share from my experiences in discovering that life is never what we bargained for, very, very little of the things we ever think ever make sense, are useful, or are even meaningful; (Tim Ferriss seems to be the exception! That man is a serious inspiration! If only we all could be so clear-headed!) my struggles with shyness and overcoming it; and my efforts to take the most mundane life and making it interesting; overcoming the tendency of American life to emasculate men and find my own masculinity.
Maybe one day I could have one of those self-help guru deals, or something else entirely. I have no idea. But at 24 I guess I can afford to still be on the fence. I'll probably end up doing all of it. All I know is, Colombia, look out!