SENIOR AMBITION.  THE WORLD TOUR!

WHEN WE ARE SENIORS, making creative moves becomes fraught with challenges. We become ambivilant. WE rationalize FAILURE. We say to ourselves, 'my poverty 's hippie good. It's comfy good. It's safe good."

Yeah champ, it's all of that, but let's work on the other side of the ledger today, just for the sake of change. Just so you can say that you've looked at life from both sides now.

With pencil, pad in hand, DEFINE and or list YOUR DREAM AIMS, dream conditions, REFINE YOUR 'druthers' your GOALS. THEN, CONSIDER THE MEANS that are realistically open to you.  LAST, and only when you've done all the above, LIFT YOUR SWORD and give your plan a good poke. Which reminds me of a line from Hamlet:

To be, or not to be? that is the question. —
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune;
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them? — To die, — to sleep —
No more; and by a sleep, to say, we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to; 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die —— to sleep ——
To sleep? perchance, to dream. Ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of Death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect,
That makes Calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pang of despis'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th' unworthy takes;
When he himself might his Quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardles bear,
To groan and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
That undiscover'd country, from whose bourne
No traveller returns, puzzles the will;
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action —— Soft you, now!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_be,_or_not_to_be
Tells us more about what this famous speech really means.
hamlet is dualistic about the battle to nail the guilty.

Where there's dualism, there's the devil.

Hamlet knows he should, but .... you know, the usual
considerations ---like. He knows it'll kill him. But he
cannot quite "CLEAR IT" with himself. He sees it
will cause some deaths. He realizes he can't have an
omlet without breaking eggs. He wants to 'take aim'
against a sea of woes, and he will.

You wanna take aim against a sea of woes, yourself? You want to end the bills piling up, have extra to get a cabin in the mountains near a trout filled lake? A home in Mexico? An RV? You gotta ACT. THE RIGHT PLACE TO DWELL MUST BE FOUND. Besides that, you gotta DO SOMETHING CREATIVE about the utilities, server, phone company, food, heat, air conditioning, plumbing, sewage.

FOR MOST of us, when we dream of doing some HEROIC, fabulous thing,  perhaps creative work, spending fun time in relationships or travel related, we fear being thought crazy, or even going crazy! Fears about pain, danger, time, TIME LEFT, cost, money, THE effort, one's age. One's persona. Maybe the deed is way different from your persona. Last and worst one's probable IN-effectuality.

So many reasons not to pursue change. So many good survival-oriented reasons not to take time off for the dream. So.....what's your choice? Have you done your brainstorming yet? Come up with your talents, dreams, wishes, hopes, plans, goals in reverie. Assign that exploration to your hours of antwork, mindless chores, washing dishes while you keep reminding yourself to daydream these precious things into existence and maybe even...dare a few changes! Rather than just 'bear your fardles' as Shakespeare pointed out.

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