Throwback Thursday How Did I Get Here?
May. 19th, 2016 07:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerI have had the Talking Heads song “Once in a Lifetime” stuck in my head for about a day now.
I have been thinking about how I got where I am now. The number of things that had to happen to get me to this point is staggering. The number of things that had to happen to make sure Caroline was on this planet is even more so.
This is not where I saw my life when I was much younger. I am not unhappy with the situation but I think if I went back in time and told myself all that was going to happen, I would laugh at myself. I would also tell myself to take care of my knees and don’t play with acetone without gloves.
I have worked in theater and publishing which are not as different as one would think. I have worked in comic book stores and bookstores. I have had a lot of different jobs in a lot of different fields over my working life.
I have had to rewrite my bucket list twice now and only a couple of items have been moved from one to another.
My life has been interesting and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Regrets I do have a few but those have led me to here and I feel that here is where I need to be.
I got up at 5 AM this morning to see Peter on his way to KeyCon in Canada this weekend so some of these thoughts may be coming from a lack of sleep or not sleeping until I wake up which for me these days is about 6:20 when Caroline gets up.
Today so far I have cleaned up the kitchen, fed Caroline a nice breakfast, packed her a nice lunch, made coffee, took the garbage cans to the curb, and wrote this.
For the rest of the day I am looking at going to write, go to the gym, work on puppets, cut out Caroline’s pattern for her cat, and, if it stops raining, cat boxes.
Anything beyond that is going to be gravy.
I am grateful that I am where I am.
I have been thinking about how I got where I am now. The number of things that had to happen to get me to this point is staggering. The number of things that had to happen to make sure Caroline was on this planet is even more so.
This is not where I saw my life when I was much younger. I am not unhappy with the situation but I think if I went back in time and told myself all that was going to happen, I would laugh at myself. I would also tell myself to take care of my knees and don’t play with acetone without gloves.
I have worked in theater and publishing which are not as different as one would think. I have worked in comic book stores and bookstores. I have had a lot of different jobs in a lot of different fields over my working life.
I have had to rewrite my bucket list twice now and only a couple of items have been moved from one to another.
My life has been interesting and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Regrets I do have a few but those have led me to here and I feel that here is where I need to be.
I got up at 5 AM this morning to see Peter on his way to KeyCon in Canada this weekend so some of these thoughts may be coming from a lack of sleep or not sleeping until I wake up which for me these days is about 6:20 when Caroline gets up.
Today so far I have cleaned up the kitchen, fed Caroline a nice breakfast, packed her a nice lunch, made coffee, took the garbage cans to the curb, and wrote this.
For the rest of the day I am looking at going to write, go to the gym, work on puppets, cut out Caroline’s pattern for her cat, and, if it stops raining, cat boxes.
Anything beyond that is going to be gravy.
I am grateful that I am where I am.
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Date: 2016-05-19 02:29 pm (UTC)Thanks to science fiction, I often contemplate "alternate realities." What paths would my life have taken if I had made a different choice, or if I'd never met a particular person, and so on. Choices lead to events that make us the people we are today, and we'll make choices and experience events that will make us the people we are tomorrow/in the future.