thought and exploration
In which decisions are reached, and a path is chosen.
Last night I went to my acupuncturist for the first time in several months. Understandably, I was more than a little out of balance energetically, which explains the lethargy I’ve felt over the last month or so, and is the primary reason I’ve not kept up my blogs every other day as I usually do. I should have seen that coming earlier, but oh well, maybe next time. Anyway, last night and this morning I’m turning some ideas over in my mind - I have some ideas for stories I’d like to write, and I’ve been considering studying Linux a bit more to give me more career options, as I think my days as a Java programmer are numbered, although this is still some ways off.
So I’m turning things over in my mind, considering the demands on my time, what I want to do, and how much time will be absorbed by everything, and I’ve reached a conclusion. While Linux may be a good career move for me, that’s not what this year is about for me. This year is about exploring my options, stretching myself and trying something new. While Linux would certainly be a new path career wise, it’s a variation down a path I’m already on. Without realizing it, I’ve made a commitment this year to explore in a new direction: writing. I’m undertaking a new book project, and wanting to finish one I started years ago, a decade ago almost, in fact. It would seem a shame to introcude something into the mix that would interfere with accomplishing my goals, and that’s what studying Linux would do. Besides, it will still be there next year.
I am committing myself to the path I started walking down the first day of this year when I began my project at the botanic gardens to produce the book - I have clearly committed to several writing goals, and I will honor that commitment I made to myself. I only have another two months to arrange things, then my next big commitment comes along: the next module of seifukujitsu begins, which will introduce time crunches of its own. Likely I will do what I did two years ago when I took the first module, and do much of my studying at lunchtime. It proved a slow but steady way of getting the work done, and I learned a lot in the process. Of course, that means a cutback on my reading time, but that’s ok, I don’t need to be reading so much crap on the internet anyway.