10 year plan

[lnr]

Seems a lot of artists seem to like to release best of albums covering 10 year spans. U2 have 2 of them, Springsteen managed 4 whole LP of live material in 75-85. 10 years just seems to be a timespan that appeals for some reason. It was strange seeing than Jo's brother is more than 10 years younger than me. 10 years ago I was still at school, in the upper sixth, not worrying too much about A-levels yet and busy chasing JT, maybe even going out with him by now. Time doesn't half fly. And more than half of those 10 years has been spent with Richard. Wow!

I don't feel like I've got anywhere much really. At 17 I was good at what I did and enjoyed it, now I'm bored and mediocre. Perhaps it's just rose tinted sunglasses. Oh well, let's see what we can do over the next 10.

Comments

[aldabra]

Radically changing your career path every ten years is recommended as a route to an interesting and fulfilling life.

[keirf.livejournal.com]

I know that when I was 17 I had an over-inflated opinion of my importance in the world and my intellectual and artistic abilities. This probably had something to do with me finding A levels trivial, yet being surrounded by people who found them incredibly hard.

Three years in Cambridge managed to knock the stuffing out of me though. I have since discovered that at over thirty I'm actually better at those things (music and maths in particular) than I was in my late teens. It just doesn't feel like I am anymore.

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

This PhD I'm doing seems to be having a similar effect on me; it really is shattering a lot of illusions I had about myself. Sometimes I worry that the only thing I'm doing is overqualifying myself...

[forcefire.livejournal.com]

I thought you didn't like Springsteen, all those denials ;).

Anyway we all imagine being something great when were older, I wanted to be a pilot and travel the world but now I'm a husband a father and guess what, I wouldn't change it for anything.
My point is you should be happy with who you've become because you have someone who loves you and caring friends and that makes you special.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the english way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

-- Time, Pink Floyd