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elizabeth  ·  1337 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 19, 2020

I can't believe summer is almost over! I've been busy, but I can't shake this feeling like i've been wasting my time too much. Time has just been melting away the past few years, in a way it wasn't before. Is this what getting older feels like? I feel I will wake up being 60 years old in a few moments and didn't realize half my life has slipped away already. Somehow, I need to have some concrete accomplishments under my belt, some progress to feel good. I've learned a lot, done lots of random eclectic tasks. But it's all pretty directionless in general. Time to bang out some items off the bucket list and maybe make some more concrete plans for the rest of the year. But what I actually want to do with my time right now is take 1000 classes about all the random skills I'd like to learn. Screen printing, develop photos the old school way, learn to weld, build fire art, fire spin, pottery, sewing, basic programming, electronics, CAD software, get good at identifying wild mushrooms, fishing, butchering... all very doable things to learn at a basic level but all requiring a certain time/money investment and most importantly prioritizing. Some of these things I'm almost ashamed I don't already know how to do, as it seems so simple.The free government money's over - so it's time for my biannual "what am i doing with my life" review :)