http://www.millenniumwinter.com/2007/01/06/resolutions-and-such/ Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:13:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.millenniumwinter.com/2007/01/06/resolutions-and-such/comment-page-1/#comment-18826 millennium winter :: a reflection not so whole » revolutions Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:01:48 +0000 http://www.millenniumwinter.com/?p=131#comment-18826 [...] So what about the past year? I can’t say I’m like Raevyn, who thought that the 27th year of life was a pivotal year - surely Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, even Jimi Hendrix all left us at 27; but I wasn’t particularly aware of that. I look back over things like my new year’s resolutions for 2007 and think to myself that I still have a ways to go - I haven’t built my MythTV box, although I kind of wrote that one off (I don’t think the circuitry in our house can take another full-time computer, much less our electric bill), and I think I’ve done well at producing more original content than absorbing other people’s material. The budget’s been done and we’re doing pretty well with our finances (although I’d love to take some time off one day to dedicate towards financial planning and not just management), and I still need to stop slacking and redesign Plastic Bohemia. Still, I think if there’s anything I’ve really learned this year is that it’s very dangerous to become attached to the routine, to surviving, to doing the same thing all of the time. It’s a mindkiller - it makes you complacent and leads you back into life’s waiting room, as Raevyn calls it, as opposed to living it. [...] [...] So what about the past year? I can’t say I’m like Raevyn, who thought that the 27th year of life was a pivotal year – surely Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, even Jimi Hendrix all left us at 27; but I wasn’t particularly aware of that. I look back over things like my new year’s resolutions for 2007 and think to myself that I still have a ways to go – I haven’t built my MythTV box, although I kind of wrote that one off (I don’t think the circuitry in our house can take another full-time computer, much less our electric bill), and I think I’ve done well at producing more original content than absorbing other people’s material. The budget’s been done and we’re doing pretty well with our finances (although I’d love to take some time off one day to dedicate towards financial planning and not just management), and I still need to stop slacking and redesign Plastic Bohemia. Still, I think if there’s anything I’ve really learned this year is that it’s very dangerous to become attached to the routine, to surviving, to doing the same thing all of the time. It’s a mindkiller – it makes you complacent and leads you back into life’s waiting room, as Raevyn calls it, as opposed to living it. [...]

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