Now, you may ask, what right do I have to write an autobiography when I'm still young. Normally, I would concur with you, but, considering the success of this blog (this is my 50th post, by the way; and it has been read all over the world many times over) and the fact that, as Hunter S. Thompson put it, I'm "too weird to live, too rare to die" warrants a published telling of my life story. That, and as I've gotten the feeling in the past, there's zero guarantee that I'll live to be old, in the first place. None at all.
So that's the first big decision I made tonight. The second is that I'm getting out of retail as soon as I can. I have spent far too much of my life within the confines of one mall, or another, and even when I was a banker in Texas, our branch was inside a Walmart. Even my title there was "Retail Banker". There's so much more to life than this and it's time I shake loose from these chains. I need a real job where I'm mentally stimulated every single day. I seriously feel like my brain is going to waste; and I know my life surely is. Also, for someone who is normally energetic, I feel drained from sheer boredom after each shift. During each shift.
Third is it's time for me to start traveling once more. One of my goals for 2015 is to attend SXSW in Austin. The last (and really only) music festival that I have been to was Summerfest in Milwaukee back in...2006? '06 or 07. Either way, it's been way too long and SXSW is on my bucket list anyway. Before that, however, I'm going to NorWesCon in Seattle and meeting George R.R. Martin (the author of the Song of Ice and Fire series that has been adapted by HBO as the show Game of Thrones). I've already met Patrick Rothfuss (author of the Name of the Wind) at PAX this year and got some writing advice from him. I want to know what wisdom Martin would have on the subject. And, lastly, I want to get my passport. It's time that that happens.
Another goal I have for 2015 is to finally complete NaNoWriMo. I have made many attempts at writing a novel during the month of November and; while I fully understand how hard it's going to be, I finally understand what it's going to take to see it from start to finish. The key, I've figured out, is planning the whole bloody book beforehand and then just writing it in November. That's the only way this is going to work. In fact, I might just write a novel in 2015 and then use NaNoWriMo to write the sequel. Then I have two books knocked out in the same year and I can start the publication process for them after the fact. It's time for me to take this writing thing seriously and the best way to do it is to "go big or go home".
It's also time for me to get my Phoenix. I have planned this tattoo since I got my first one back in 2007 and it's time to stop stalling and get it done. Is it going to hurt? Yup. Is it worth it? Oh, most definitely yes. The whole symbology behind the Phoenix is worth it. Rising from the ashes of death to become a whole new creation is something that I have been continually doing since Dad passed away. I have shed so many skins; and I have many more to go before my time is truly up.
There are other things that I will strive for between now and the close of 2015; but these are the big ones. I'm tired of the lateral moves in my life and I'm ready to shatter my self-inflicted glass seeing and make the most of the time I have left. Carpe diem!!!
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