... to be a better listener

I'm not sure I want to spend the rest of my life working on computers. I know that I'm smart enough that if I set my mind to it, I can do virtually anything in life. But I have no idea what I'm passionate about. I'm not looking to leave the company I'm with for probably at least 2 years, if even then, but I want to at least look into the possibility of doing something more fulfilling with my life.

But... what?

Current Mood: confused

As stolen from seraphicideals, although I'm too lazy to post the whole meme and I'm posting more than 5 or 6.

We're all in this alone.
Lily Tomlin (1939 - )

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.
John W. Raper

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)

you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

Current Mood: contemplative

It has been 51 weeks since I've written in this journal and someone poked me to remind me. I have to be honest that I don't remember very many people that have been added to this friends list, so a decent number will very possibly be removed.

Life has changed drastically since I began this journal. I deleted some entries and marked the rest as private for myself.

Because of certain things going on in my life, most of the entries will have to be friends only or private. In fact, if it weren't for the ability to filter this way, I wouldn't bother because I do have a 'real' blog on my own domain name, but that is for contemplations and general things, not necessarily things that I would rather not have the general public having access to. And password-protected entries are ugly.

Anyway, I have too much on my mind to write a nice 'pretty' new first entry, so this will have to do. I have somewhere to be, so I'll have to manage the rest of this and create a 'real' first entry later.

Current Mood: busy