Design Your Future What are your goals? Where do you want to be in five years? What steps are you taking to get there? My friend Lisa sent me an e-mail outlining many of her goals and dreams for the next few years, and it fired me up. I think seeing other people reach high helps us to realize that we can aim high too. So this is a page for that. Title courtesy of Mr. Zen. i want to be part of a community of writers/musicians/artists/activists, changing this country and trying to make it more kind and beautiful. i want to have a book out. i want to keep working on magazines like bridges. i want to have even more amazing friends. i want to travel. i want to learn to drive, and to cook. and lots of other things, i'm sure. I would like to do something with music. Play my violin well and share my music with people. A very fuzzy idea of mine was to join the Seattle Symphony Orchestra sometime way off, and possibly live in that warehouse or whatever it is going to be, with all those unschoolers... I don't know, my future isn't defined. It's all blank, yet filled with ideas and dreams that might change any day and it would be okay with me. All I know is I want to play my fiddle. Dance professionally. Ballet Austin would even be okay, and is probably Live near woods. Cool ones. Dance. Write. Sing. No, really sing, and be happy doing it as not just something to do on odd evenings, but to love doing it whenever. Commit to someone[1]. Live with them, and be someone they like being around. [1] Or someones, but that's only if that's how life ends up working best. My 1:34 am Life Plan:
Travel, and really get to know different places and people, different ways of living, both in the US and in other countries. Fall in love many times. Have at least one painless breakup. Get married, or the equivalent. Love my body. Have white hair. Direct a proffecional play in a proffecional theater. Work on a play with friends. Write a play or two. Write music. Perform regularly. Live with people I love. Live alone. Never stop learning, especially about myself. Figure out how to go about making good friends. (For the life of me I cannot remember how I've made friends with any of my good friends.) Love and stay in touch with my family all my life. In the next couple months, I am now hoping to travel to Europe with the Isaac. After that, I want to move out of my parent's house and into an apartment here in Austin. I want to have a great halloween costume. I want to work on all the major projects I talk a lot about working on. Sometime in the next five years, I want to act in some non-student productions, self-publish a graphic novel, learn to tap dance, take figure drawing, start really writing poetry again, keep jazzing up boingy boingy dot com, be staff at nbtsc, write and write and write, intern or work at a radio station, travel to australia, and effectively show people i love em. Past that I want to make art and movies and books and publish them myself. I want to own some land sometime. I want to live on the coast sometime. I want to own a horse sometim. I don't want to ever stop being in love with people and things around me, dying my hair, or sitting on the floor. -Summer My future is always being revised, being how I'm so damn unpredictable but here goes... Go to Australia and work there for a few months, go off and travel around it, and take a side trip to New Zealand maybe. Skip off to Europe and go visit a friend in the African Congo. If I'm out of money, get a work visa for the nearest safe country and earn more to travel. Oh, and learn a whole bunch of new skills and have some great experiences! Like skinny dipping, busking, and getting a pilot's license (I'm in the process of getting a driver's license now). Come back to America, get a good job, buy some land and build a cob castle. Put together my own plane and fly into town with it, to my job even! Surround myself with friends. Find a soulmate. Grow my own food and turn to solar energy for electricity. Then, go to college book, adopt a child, unschool my children and take them out into the field so they can learn about the Earth firsthand. Later later later, start a coffeeshop/bookstore and youth hostel in the nearest city and and earn a degree in the Earth Sciences, so I can be a Geologist or Biologist and do many Important Things to Help The Earth. Write a cater to the dreamers.
A Life Work up the money for college, take a few yeras of schooling in fine art and small buisness, set up my own homebased buissnes as an artisan. Modify a fuel efficient vehicle into a living space to take me and my goods to fairs and exibitions. A Life Buy a house with three or five other people. Renovate it to contain plants, cats, moving walls of bookshelves, skylights, children, music, sun, a wood stove. A netword of water filled tubes with a current, going through the walls, with fish living in them. A Life Take out massive student loans and study ecologically sustainable and human friendly architecture. Work very hard for twenty years and than retire to somewhere with mountains and snow and four seasons. A Life Attend the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, become a professional multimedia artist and vidiographer. Freelance on any project with enough soul in it to allow me to feel alright about taaking money from them. A Life Study physicaal therapy and message, and become a physio for dancers and musicians. A Life Apprentice with a constume designer, aand eventually become a freelance costumer for movies and stage plays, specialising in historically accuracy. I wish often for a cat's nine lives. My alternitive is to spend my present time as a student of diverse and coexisting interests. -Tessa NBTSWikiWiki | Recent Changes Edited 14 times, last edited on December 4, 2001 by ::ffff:62.7.75.39. © 2000 NBTSC Webmasters |
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