Sometimes I just like to sit around and dream. I don’t know if anyone wants to sit around and dream with me, but if you want to comment or anything, I’d totally take it and love it!
One I’ve been thinking about recently… but I don’t think it’s super plausible is “52 Things I Keep Saying I’m Gonna Do” in 52 weeks, to kind of tie up those loose ends of “things you always say you’re gonna do,” but… you haven’t yet.
But the main this is, I don’t know how actually feasible this is. Because the main thing I know of that I “keep saying I’m gonna do” is really learn how to ride a bike.
I won a bike in a raffle years ago now, and I really wanted to learn, so I could participate in the AIDS LifeCycle ride. (It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, and one of their events is where I won the bike, so it feels like I should pay it back forward or whichever way to the organization.)
But I still don’t know how to ride a bike.
I did take it down to Griffith Park and ride around a little and get a feel for the bike. But there is no way I’d be surviving okay outside of the parking lot where I was riding around. I need to have much better control on how to stop and start, and also just better control of keeping in a line. When I have a whole parking lot, I’m fine, but if I had to stay on a little strip of road, I maybe wouldn’t be as fine.
Now, I think I could do it. I remember being stressed learning how to drive, and not being good at it at all (failing my first driver’s test). But I can drive now (pretty much ;)).
So, I think I could do it. And I’ve never put a big ‘due date’ on my bike riding or anything (hence, probably one of the reasons I haven’t learned yet).
BUT… it’s not something you can necessarily learn how to do in just a week. (Maybe you can, but I had a rough time on the bike, so even if I fully dedicated myself for a whole week, I don’t think I’d learn well enough to be biking from San Francisco to Los Angeles.)
And I feel like that’s the case for many of the things I keep ‘saying I’m gonna do.’
Some other things that come to mind if I really think about it (tbh, a lot of them have to do with biking, because once I learn, I’d like to do a century bike ride, and I’d like to do an Ironman…), but yeah, I always say I’d like to get to inbox zero. This is never something I actually stick with.
I keep meaning to finish my UCLA extension certificate in television writing… I haven’t yet.
I haven’t yet taken writing lab at The Groundlings (though in the case of that, we’ve been in a pandemic, so this is one I couldn’t have done for a long time).
I DID finish my college degree and get a master’s degree! And the college degree was on the “oh, I maybe probably will get around to finishing this someday” list for a LONG time.
So… anyway,
1) I don’t know if there are actually 52 whole things I can find that I always said I’d do and haven’t yet, but even if I think reeeeeally hard, and expand it out to things I thought would be cool, or even thought of doing and I come up with 52 full on things…
2) I don’t think that probably any of them could be accomplished in just one week. And if they could, it would take a LOT of time within that week. And you could argue that I could be doing a little for multiple projects for a whole year, but I think it would still take a tremendous amount of time and planning to make everything merge in a way that I could get them all done in one year.
I mean… it is possible… But… I dunno. I don’t have to start my next project until December of 2023 (I can start earlier if I want, but that’s when I ‘have’ to, to keep the consistency goals going.).
And maybe I just need to decide that I’m gonna be done with a bunch of these things by then, and then the point will be moot. Who knows. But I am up for ideas, if anyone happens to be reading this and has any!