Someday Has A Date

What is it that you expect from yourself? I have expected to go to college, work for a media company, and write a script. I have done all those with little sense of accomplishment. Not to say I don't value them, just that I did what I expected to do. If I went to the store to get grapes, I'm not going to get overly happy when I bring home grapes because I knew what I wanted and knew what I had to do get them. (You want grapes now.)

Overly simple example? Maybe but one thing this surgery has done is put perspective to "someday." 

Someday - I want to write another script

Someday - I want to go back to Europe

Someday - I want to make a movie

I need to put a date to the "somedays."

I don't know what life holds for me three years from now but I do know what day of the week May 19th 2012 will fall on. So why not say I want to go to Warsaw that week? Write it down. It may or may not happen that week but once it down it's a priority and you expect to do it.

Like most of you I expect to achieve my long list of goals. But, until recently they were on my someday list. I know most of you heard something like this before. This minor event in my life really brought to light things I have already held true. Time moves in one direction. Just because you not sick and able bodied does not mean you always will be. Life happens and it will happen with you or to you but it always happens.

I jumped out of a plane and had open heart surgery. Neither have been the scariest or most daunting task I have faced. I will not be defined by my job or events that happen to me. Someday has a date and I need to assign them.