I love rhetorical questions, don’t you?
One can pose the question, disconnect ones logical self, and let the mind flow, free-form, through the almost endless field of possible answers.
Without reality restrictions.
And sometimes the aimlessly meandering imagination might come back with an original thought – something so unexpected, and yet right (even something attainable), that it makes you sit up and say ‘yes!’.
And then you put together a plan of action, to help you achieve this previously unthought thing.
I have a friend who, pretty much out of the blue, has just committed to do the awesomely gruelling Woods, Obstacles, Lakes, and Fields (Wolf) Run in a few months time.
That’s a hell of an inspiring thing to undertake.
I’d be tempted if I was allowed to run.
Which I’m not.
Because, you know, three cruciate ligament repairs and a cartilage removal, all to the same knee, don’t make for the best conditions in which to undertake gruelling, high-impact sports.
But yes, notwithstanding my physical restriction, I would be very tempted.
But if you sat down right now, and – in a rhetorical frame – asked yourself what you would like to achieve before the 31st of December this year…
Where would your free-flowing mind wander?
Do the Wolf Run?
Learn to play a musical instrument?
Learn to fly?
Travel to an exotic place?
Learn a new craft?
Take a course in something?
Get back in to horse riding?
All of the above?
Something entirely different?
Where would it lead you?
I have a list.
It’s not a big list, but there are a couple of things that occurred to me, as I let my mind freeflow, while I drove the 125 miles to work on Monday morning, that I would like to do this year.
A couple.
I shall allow my thoughts to freeflow some more.
And we shall see what we shall see.
What about you?
Anyway, while you think about it, I’m just going to take this server down to apply a couple of patches to the operating system.
Oh yeah.
The Wolf Run?
This:
Clever first line.
Doing that bloody Wolf Run is what buggered up my knees. All that running through… hold on, sorry, it wasn’t the Wolf Run. It was getting fat, that’s it. I remember now: it was getting fat that buggered up my knees. I’ve never actually done the Wolf Run.
Because I’m not mad.
Anyway, going back to your earlier question: the things I’d most like to achieve this year are pretty much the same as the things that I planned to achieve last year. But didn’t.