To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die."
from Ulysses by Alfred Lloyd Tennyson
"Death closes all" indeed. But before those doors are slammed and locked there are some things I hope to do. Ok, really there are many things on that list. I fear more than anything a gradual slide into mindless daily routines, the failure to learn something new, to attempt something difficult.
I want to learn another language, travel to places that discomfit me and jar me out of complacency, I want to be inspired, challenged, and I want to make something that will last beyond my short time as a citizen of this world. Oh, and I really want to gain proficiency with chopsticks.
I want time spent with others such that I leave the exchange affected by it, and I desire solitude of some amount on a regular basis. I want to find something good to watch on Netflix once in a while, and I hope to discipline myself to accomplish more in the next ten years than I have in the past fifty.
