This time of year is always lots of endings and beginnings. Ends in a frenzy of activity around Christmas, an interbellum of recovery, and preparation, contemplation, for another celebration, and then …. release.
It’s like psyching yourself up to jump off a cliff …. focussed on the running, not the why are you running.
I’ve been faced with some sobering realities in the past few weeks. A crisis of logic.
I like to lear. I like to have projects. I have ideas I want to progress.
But … to do that I need an income. And if I work as much as I need to to pay the bills and the fees, then that doesn’t mean much time is left over, if at all.
Questions…
Am I engaging in the App Development course suffiiciently?
Am I making progress in learning skills and facilitating projects?
Do I have the time to do this course, right now? Ever?
To do the course, what am I giving up, and how is that important to me?
I have just been given a big commision to narrate Monkey - Journey to the West, one of the four great Chinese literary classics. What’s it all about?
It’s about a pilgrimage. Seeking enlightenment. The key character Monkey initial fails because he thinks he can do everything.
But it also teaches the importance of cooperation!
I have to spend some time of Christmas considering whether I have, for now, bitten off more than I can chew.
Decision time.