RGH's fantastic birthday post got me thinking. In his post he talked about life lessons he's learned over his 30 years. As I approach my birthday as well, I have been thinking about goals and accomplishments. I think many people have similar basic goals (correct me if I'm wrong) - find love, buy a house, travel the world.
However, everyone has things they want to accomplish individual to them that others my find strange. Here's mine:
Work on a Canadian TV show - When I was growing up as a thin, non athletic dork in Pennsylvania I had a few TV shows I would become obsessed with and insist on watching whenever they were on. The thing they all had in common...they were Canadian. I associated everything I loved about these shows (and missed in my real life) with Canada. When I moved to Toronto a few years ago I was determined to work on one of these shows. I signed with a (non-porn) extra agency I found online and got to work on several barely-known Canadian productions and made about $30 for 16 hours of work. Fun stuff!
Skydiving - Fall from a plane, do flips and parachute to the ground. Seems like so much fun and a relatively easy thing to do! One of these days I will get around to do this. I think it would be more fun with a friend, but sadly my friends are "too scared". Hopefully it will be checked off before the 3-0 hits next year!
Record a song and make a music video with a big dance sequence - So I haven't made much progress on this...but I took a few hip hop dance classes and realized pretty quickly that following choreography was not my thing. Trying to figure out 8 counts had my head spinning. Also, I have no musical talent so the singing part of this dream probably won't happen either. Bonus life lesson - I have more of an appreciation for dancers and how tough their line of work is.
Anyone else have goals that may seem random to the untrained observer?
Recommended Reading - Emily Yoffe's Human Guinea Pig series of articles about expanding on her interests and the amusing experiences she has trying new and unusual things. Read about Emily, trying to sell her "hair muffs" to QVC, enter a beauty pageant, and being a "historical re-enactor".
However, everyone has things they want to accomplish individual to them that others my find strange. Here's mine:
Work on a Canadian TV show - When I was growing up as a thin, non athletic dork in Pennsylvania I had a few TV shows I would become obsessed with and insist on watching whenever they were on. The thing they all had in common...they were Canadian. I associated everything I loved about these shows (and missed in my real life) with Canada. When I moved to Toronto a few years ago I was determined to work on one of these shows. I signed with a (non-porn) extra agency I found online and got to work on several barely-known Canadian productions and made about $30 for 16 hours of work. Fun stuff!
Skydiving - Fall from a plane, do flips and parachute to the ground. Seems like so much fun and a relatively easy thing to do! One of these days I will get around to do this. I think it would be more fun with a friend, but sadly my friends are "too scared". Hopefully it will be checked off before the 3-0 hits next year!
Record a song and make a music video with a big dance sequence - So I haven't made much progress on this...but I took a few hip hop dance classes and realized pretty quickly that following choreography was not my thing. Trying to figure out 8 counts had my head spinning. Also, I have no musical talent so the singing part of this dream probably won't happen either. Bonus life lesson - I have more of an appreciation for dancers and how tough their line of work is.
Anyone else have goals that may seem random to the untrained observer?
Recommended Reading - Emily Yoffe's Human Guinea Pig series of articles about expanding on her interests and the amusing experiences she has trying new and unusual things. Read about Emily, trying to sell her "hair muffs" to QVC, enter a beauty pageant, and being a "historical re-enactor".
1 comment:
Haha...didn't I promise to help fulfill the video goal.
Never knew you wanted to sky dive...I'm all over that.
Random goals?? Umm..I have this list of life from like gr. 8. One of them included meeting Tiffani Amber Thiessen
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