5 yr plan? uh...

Carmel, CA vs. Rt. 175 MD

a quote from my sister's blog (she just moved back to MD from a year-long cross-country road dtrip) that makes me sad that I am so complacent and non-adventurous and tend to take the easy route, and thus find myself still in central md, and now with a mortgage:

"At least when i lived in new orleans and had a boring ass job i went outside for break or when i got off and THERE I WAS! In the fucking bustling french quarter and it was beautiful and there was the river and the horse drawn carriages and the music in the streets and the awesome bars that were open all night...Damn getting off of this boring job and walking outside to rt 175 in fucking central maryland and going home to prepare for my next boring uneventful day in hell."

Ok given she has a job she doesn't like, which makes everything worse, but, the point is the comparison between central maryland and anywhere cool you can think of! She's so right.

A larger problem? No 5 yr plan. If you don't look at your life and imagine how you want it to be in 5 or 10 years, you just chug along day to day with no goal in mind and no effort to work towards that goal. Suddenly, you are in your 40's and still doing the same thing, still chugging along, still at the same job with the same pay in the same town in the same house while those around you are moving forward. Just letting life happen to you instead of taking advantage of your time on earth. That doesn't seem very smart. Lazy, yes. Prudent, no. *sigh*