Who am I today?
I was listening to the radio today driving home from work and Stephen Fry was a guest on this particular show. He’s always worth listening to even if only for his picturesque speech. Today though it what what he was saying that caught my ear.
Stephen was talking about how, as a child, he used to envy those people who seemd to know what they wanted out of life and seemd to have a plan set out to achieve that. What he said though was that he later came to reconsider that stance because once you’ve achieved those ambitions what else is there for you to do in life? (I’m over simplifying it a bit but that’s basically it)
The question he was posing was this - is life not more of an adventure if we don’t know what it is we want or where we’re going? When we can wake up every morning and ask ourselves if we’re still the same person we were yesterday? Indeed, do I want today what I wanted yesterday?
I can see his point and I would tend to agree with him. We do change over time and we do form different views about life and what we hope to get out of it. If your plans are set from an early age how easy is it to change having achieved all that and having become who you set out to be…possibly before you really knew for sure just who you did want to be?
Food for thought…