September 8, 2006

every plan is a tiny prayer to father time

As much as I love being spontaneous, I also like thinking about the future and imagining where I'll be in five or 10 years. It's fun to think about the places I'll go and what I'll be doing. I don't know that five years ago I could have predicted what my life would be like now.
What makes planning for the future so nerve-wracking is the possibility of failure. I have definite goals for what I want to do with my life and I know I'll be disappointed if I don't accomplish them. I want to move on from my current job to a reporting position at a daily, hopefully within a year, two at most. At some point, I want to go back to school and get a master of fine arts in creative writing. I want to write a book. I want to have a family.
But what happens if these plans don't work out? Will I be disappointed? I've made plans for the future before that haven't panned out, and it's actually turned out to be a good thing. I don't believe in fate or that what should happen will. But sometimes, by accident, things do work out for the best.
Anyway, while writing this, I realized that I have a letter sitting in my sock drawer at home that I had to write to myself in AP English junior year of high school. We were supposed to wait five years to open it. I think it's going to be five years sometime this month. I should check that out and see where I though I'd be now five years ago. I'll let you know when I do.
Also, I realized I write a lot of self-absorbed introspective kind of things here. If you're ever sick of hearing it, tell me and I'll find fun things from the Internet or something like that to put here instead.

SONG OF THE MOMENT:
Soul Meets Body - Death Cab for Cuite (the cool live version I heard on Q101 yesterday. Not sure where it's from, but it was good.)

Posted by dpetrella at September 8, 2006 12:37 PM | TrackBack
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there's a video of an acoustic performance of soul meets body on aol, not live though. the live version you heard may have been from lollapalooza.

http://music.aol.com/videos/sessions/sessions_flash.adp?defaultCovers=551&defaultID=551&ncid=AOLMUS00050000000022

Posted by: ryan at September 8, 2006 1:24 PM

The live version I heard was just Ben Gibbard playing piano and singing.

Posted by: Dan at September 8, 2006 1:32 PM

keep the blog real! I like the introspective posts.

Posted by: Jon at September 8, 2006 2:40 PM

Being self-absorbed is what blogs are for.

Posted by: Julia at September 8, 2006 3:44 PM

if you want a blog for fun things on the internet, i'll make you a NEW blog for that. word, keep this one real! we may not have much to say sometimes but I assure we enjoy reading it all.

Posted by: Donkey Korn at September 9, 2006 6:41 AM

am i the only one that hates his super self absorbedness? gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhd shut up already!!!

....just kidding.

Posted by: holler at September 9, 2006 6:23 PM
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