You can do anything you want

[rm]

Because I am really tired, I don't know how to say this without it sounding like "look at all the neat weird stuff I've done because I'm well... peculiar and ambitious" (which is not the point of this at all) BUT

You can do anything you want.

There's nothing in the world only one other person is interested in, and with enough research and perseverence there are few experiences out there that are truly unavailable, even if they are not necessarily available at the level you'd want them at.

But there's nothing you can't at least taste.

I'm an unathletic girl who rides horses in New York City, for fucks sake. And I once took a free sailing class sponsored by the parks department so I could take out the free sailboat thingies over on the Hudson; they've kayaks too. I've flown a plane, been part of a really extraordinary community of musical artists, been hung twenty feet up in the air for a Halloween performance, and taken a truly weird variety of dance classes.

All because I've felt like it. All because it never occured to me that opportunities to indulge both my long term ambitions and my weird crap of the moment maybe shouldn't exist.

Being single in NYC, I have some luxury of time and opportunity many don't, I do understand this. But the notion that some things in the world are only for other people -- it's foolish and weird and I don't understand it.

There's an extraordinary array of things you can do in this world to live out your fantasies and to build the life you want... often for less money than you'd think if you're clever and persistant.

I wish people would look around more, be ridiculous more and view the long list of things they were never supposed to be as a call to arms.

What do you want to do, what's stopping you, and does that really strike you as reasonable?

Comments

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

You know that at this very minute I'm filling out a grad school application which has required I ignore every single inner (outer) voice telling me it is impractical and disastrous to get training in creative writing.

Excellent timing.

I can't consider right now why I've been stuck, or I'll stall, but I suspect you know the reasons already from reading me.

Also, the thing is, when I'm on, this holy arrogance sometimes comes through that is very attractive to people. Which should tell me something.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You know, life tends to be pretty disasterous and impractical whether we assist it or not. There's nothing in the world not doing this will keep you safe from, so why the hell not? Anyway, hope you got some small amount of sleep.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

I did, thanks, a couple of hours. Definitely definitely feel 30 in body today, urgh. I am pretty impressed with myself though. I knew this would all get done in a flood of adrenalin at the end.

Tomorrow: personal day.

How?

[espidre.livejournal.com]

Even though it seems that you're only just now calling people to arms to do what you want to do, I think that is one of the reasons I've been reading your journal all along.

One of the things I seem to really get hung up on is the how, how do I get from here to there. It's really the research and perseverence that you mentioned. The really exceptional thing is that you chronicle the how to get from here to there and it's like a grand excercise just reading, if that makes any sense. With that excercise, or hand holding, if you will, I've found it easier to figure out that how a lot more times than I would have without your secret influence.

So thanks, and for what it's worth, that's my feedback on your call to arms.

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

can we be friends? roadnotes linked to you today, and i am all about free fall. sometimes i'm paralyzed. but yesterday i did it again and it feels good.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hi... sure. Yay.

[purejuice.livejournal.com]

yay, sure, hi!

[guttaperk.livejournal.com]

I'm living the life of my true dreams- but it has taken me a life to learn to see them.