Wednesday, July 16, 2008

regrets, impulses and figuring out your life

I feel often times that I have already gone through several mid/quarter/one-third-life crises. Sometimes I wonder if I've made reckless, irrational decisions and have done impulsive things that bring me to many what-the-hell-have-I-done-with-myself moments. Trust me, there have been pleeeennty of those in my life. In the past ten years I've lived in too many places to count, been through too many jobs, and I still wonder what I'm going to be and where I'm going to live when I grow up. But you know what? I think it's all worth it. I kinda know it's worth it, but it's hard to say that for sure right now when I still feel like I'm unsettled. But it's articles like this one that make me pretty confident I've made the right decisions in my life. Whenever I find myself in new, uncertain places I always consider the opposite - what if I hadn't done it? And I find that in my life, that option is always worse. I'd rather take a dive into the deep end with a chance of fear and failure than live somewhere waiting for something. Maybe I'm going to end up searching my entire life to feel content with everything in my life, but I feel like that's just the way it's meant to be. I'm just glad that someone (the writer here) is agreeing with me that perhaps I'm not so crazy in the head and I'm doing this all for a reason - to live without any regrets. I'm stumbling along the way, but soon it will be smoooooth sailing.

(Thanks for the article Dad!)

5 comments:

PJ said...

Deciding to meet Jordan at brunch the day after the wedding at which we met was the best "impulse" decision I've ever made! Sometimes the best things come out of the decisions you spend the least time dwelling on.

L said...

KAH-rissy. Well said. Errr written.

Katy said...

Oh shit...I just realized I'm the person sitting still waiting for something to happen. I'm going to go vomit now.

Unknown said...

we have to do it Krissy!!! haha we have to!!

Tia Meg said...

I love this post kris!
seriously!

so fun.......

I just caught up on the last few months of your life by the way!