Sometimes I sit around on the weekends and engage in a fantasy thing where I place myself into different places and times doing different things. You ever imagined what it would be like to have some completely different job, different life, different reality? Work is a prime candidate for this. No matter how challenging or work environment is, I think its a fact of life that people always imagine or fantasize some change of events, responsibilities, or location.
When I used to do archeology, I used to wonder what it would be like to work in some really hot spot like back in the southwest. A place like Chaco Canyon perhaps. I ended up once working close to there and luckily a few fantasies actually came true for me then. I wanted to work in the Sierra Nevada because I always thought it had this blend of historic and prehistoric use, ecology and environment, and current use.
Now when I blog things, its so easy to find a reference or a link to a place I want to go or a thing I want to do. Way back when, we did this road trip before kids to Oregon. We started up in Portland and drove all the way down to Bandon. Then inland to Bend and Burns. It was a dream road trip of thousands of miles and such a mix of environment and ecologies.
Perhaps when all get older we dream of the destiny items. The ifs and whens of things. The current work thing makes things nicer and I can spend the weekends doing the dreams and not feel so guilty. When I did not work, I always felt more challenged at the basic survival thing. Face it… Looking for a job is a job in itself; but unfortunately that job is bounded by a lot of disaffection and rejection. The mark at being successful is looking beyond that to what a thing could be. Then when you find something, I think the destiny dream comes back and you measure what you got against all those other dreams.
Happy dreaming you all and welcome to the reality of your destiny.
