I think if you're bored or don't like where you are right now, the best thing to do is look behind you. So, being not particularly happy with where I am now I spent most of the day looking back. To quote the Dead, "What a long, strange trip it's been."
I talked to a friend today that I used to work with at a saw mill when I was 18. I made straight A's in high school but when I graduated I decided not to go to college right away, which given the economics of the Ohio Valley in 1979 turned out to be 4 years. For four years I worked for minimum wage in mud, snow, and heat, through pneumonia, broken bones, and bruises before starting college. Now, looking back, I can say I loved it. I have a college degree, but I was educated at a saw mill.
Then came playing scientist for the last 19 years and along the way singing in bands, doing some writing, some photography, engineering, and a few other things, all of which I still love. My interests are diverse. I can remember every play of my favorite football games, every eagle on a par 5, every passage of my favorite operas, and every t-shirt raised at Aerosmith concerts. I love a good fillet with a nice merlot, and I love cooking kielbasa over a fire until it bursts and washing it down with a Corona.
But I digress. Anyway, it's been a long strange trip, and I can look back and say I've loved every minute of it and wouldn't change much at all, so why is it I'm rarely satisfied with where I am at the moment? As a mater of fact, if I look ahead I'm rather lost.
I guess we all do that, and it's not such a bad thing.
