6 Responses to “Future Guy”

1. Janet
   October 22nd, 2004 @ 11:58 am

   Half the time, I work on weekends, and I gotta admit I usually love my job anyway. However, I experience a cycle similar to yours when we go away on vacation. I look forward to the journey and the destination so mightily in the days leading up – then spend the trip itself worrying whether the lights and the oven are off, if I’ve packed everything we need, how we’re going to fit in all the fun we mean to have, etc. As soon as we get to our destination, I immediately get into calculating how many days/hours/meals/excursions we have left, and am in full panic mode by day 2. This is for a 2-week vacation, mind. After 4 or 5 days I finally settle down and just start enjoying myself (until about 2-3 days remain, when the end-of-vacation trauma sets in). Lunacy.

2. Flasshe
   October 23rd, 2004 @ 10:20 pm

   It’s so hard to remember to have fun sometimes. I hate being an adult.

3. Sue
   October 24th, 2004 @ 1:02 pm

   Rog, just out of curiosity, what sort of stuff do you do/accomplish on a "good" (un-squandered) weekend? I usually feel good on Sun. night if I’ve finished the Sunday papers, done my laundry and made the house look somewhat presentable.

4. Flasshe
   October 24th, 2004 @ 4:45 pm

   I dunno – I’d think a really good weekend would be one where I was having so much fun that I didn’t get anything accomplished. These days I guess I consider a good one to be one where I didn’t have to work, did some socializing, got out of the house, and caught up some on reading, DVDs, theater movies, etc. Oh yeah, and one where the Broncos win. Even though I do a lot of chores on the weekend, I don’t want to make them the point of the weekend. This weekend, about the only chores I did were laundry, grocery shopping, and some leaf raking.

5. InfK
   October 26th, 2004 @ 12:22 pm

   ‘Living in the moment’ is not as simple as it sounds; it’s not something you can practise or prepare for in the usual ways. In fact, the more brainpower and effort you apply to it, the further away the goal becomes. Figuring out what you really want to do and then simply doing it – I only know a few people who can manage that consistently, and even with them as examples for me, I manage only occasional flashes.

   Having just recently watched "Fight Club" again, I think it’s got a lot to say on the subject. The nihilist stuff tends to overwhelm the deeper message, but if you can get past the anarchy and violence of Durden’s philosophy, it’s got a lot of truth to it – forget "things", forget labels and goals that others try to foist on you, and just be your own person. Thing is, as sensible as that may sound, people tend to think in terms of "well, but I HAVE to earn money and what about my bills or that new 8-track I want…" and that’s a result of ignoring the whole message, not applying it! Distractions have become so omnipresent that we mistake them for real life – you think you can see them for what they are, but you’re still in too deep.

   I’m mainly posting this ‘cos I’ve begun replies to most of the last 5-6 of your entries, and then decided they weren’t worth pressing "Submit" for. This probably isn’t either, but I figure, what the heck.

6. DMR
   November 2nd, 2004 @ 7:23 pm

   I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Thursday! I would add that by Sunday, I’m virtually despondent about Monday – a chronic case of the "Sunday Blahs."

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