Re-inventing yourself

[angel_luv]

Put two threads together, spend your free time either helping death row inmates, or at least writing to them....

When I was in high school I wanted to be a spiritual advisor to death row inmates like Sister Helen Prejean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Prejean

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Angel, I have to say that I think you have recently reinvented yourself in an incredible manner! Since we hung out in 2007, you have been married, authored a website, and written a book - that's a pretty torrid pace of change if you ask me!

Interesting you should bring this topic up because I've been thinking about it myself. In 2003 I reinvented myself by leaving a job I hated (trade mark examiner) to go to SA, and then Japan to live for 2 years. When I got back to Oz from that, I still didn't have a career so I re-invented myself by going back to school for a Masters in Sustainability, changing my lifestyle to drastically cut my environmental footprint, and am now at least working for myself doing something I believe in. However, I'm no happier than I was... in fact, I'm probably less happy because the study has opened my eyes to the coming environmental and resource depletion crunch that will probably lead to the downfall of civilisation as we know it. What next, I don't know. Maybe I should found a cult.

[baseline bum]

Angel, I have to say that I think you have recently reinvented yourself in an incredible manner! Since we hung out in 2007, you have been married, authored a website, and written a book - that's a pretty torrid pace of change if you ask me!

Interesting you should bring this topic up because I've been thinking about it myself. In 2003 I reinvented myself by leaving a job I hated (trade mark examiner) to go to SA, and then Japan to live for 2 years. When I got back to Oz from that, I still didn't have a career so I re-invented myself by going back to school for a Masters in Sustainability, changing my lifestyle to drastically cut my environmental footprint, and am now at least working for myself doing something I believe in. However, I'm no happier than I was... in fact, I'm probably less happy because the study has opened my eyes to the coming environmental and resource depletion crunch that will probably lead to the downfall of civilisation as we know it. What next, I don't know. Maybe I should found a cult.

It's best not to think about the path this country and world is on. But hey, we have cheeseburgers and plasma screens!

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

It's best not to think about the path this country and world is on. But hey, we have cheeseburgers and plasma screens!

Indeed... soma. It is absurd, but George Orwell and Aldous Huxley saw all this happening 60 years ago, and yet we still let it happen.

Yeah, the problem is that I have just spent the last 5 years reading extensively about and studying the issues, and addressing them is now my job... no getting away from them for me any more.

I'm doing what I can by drastically cutting my own footprint, teaching others about the issues, and helping others to help themselves through things like household energy and water auditing, but the absurdity of the path we are on, including the entire system that fools people into believing that money and possessions are the only things that matter, and ignores the rampant destructiveness of a system based on material throughput and disposability, frustrates me terribly.

Maybe I need to take up meditation or a martial art, or both. I've been considering that for quite some time.

[angel_luv]

Angel, I have to say that I think you have recently reinvented yourself in an incredible manner! Since we hung out in 2007, you have been married, authored a website, and written a book - that's a pretty torrid pace of change if you ask me!

Thanks very much, Ruff!
Your perspective really encouraged me.

[marini martini]

So what's everyone going to be for Halloween???

I can't decide whether to be a witch or a gypsy??? My friend gave me the coolest witch hat a few years ago, green satin, black veil, bats, & feathers. Then I just love my vintage hand painted & sequined skirt from Mexico, with the dancing devils on it.

Decisions, desicions! I just love this time of year, and a chance to re-invent myself.

[angel_luv]

I am going to be a Lady Bug.

Last year I was a butterfly.

[baseline bum]

So what's everyone going to be for Halloween???

I can't decide whether to be a witch or a gypsy??? My friend gave me the coolest witch hat a few years ago, green satin, black veil, bats, & feathers. Then I just love my vintage hand painted & sequined skirt from Mexico, with the dancing devils on it.

Decisions, desicions! I just love this time of year, and a chance to re-invent myself.

I'm going to dress up like a banker and take my shotgun to peoples' porches, demanding a bailout.

[marini martini]

I'm going to dress up like a banker and take my shotgun to peoples' porches, demanding a bailout.

I love costumes where you gotta cary a weapon!!!

I was an air patrol agent one year and carried a LugerP308 in a holster!

[JoeChalupa]

I've re-invented myself via surgery and now I'm lighter on my feet.

[Last Comic Standing]

I'm doing what I can by drastically cutting my own footprint,.

Joe Chalupa beat you to it!

[Phenomanul]

Joe Chalupa beat you to it!

You stepped over the line with that one....

[Phenomanul]

Just a word of caution... your success as a Big Sister (from the program you just enrolled in) will largely depend on your time investment to that cause.... I became a Big Brother 3 months ago; so far, helping a less fortunate child has been very rewarding on many fronts....

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Thanks very much, Ruff!
Your perspective really encouraged me.

I'm going to dress up like a banker and take my shotgun to peoples' porches, demanding a bailout.

Joe Chalupa beat you to it!