Season quiz

[flexagon]

miyyu was right... lovely pictures with this quiz. I didn't know what season I'd get. I like all the seasons, each in their way.

You scored as Winter. You are WINTER. You're more introspective, thinking deeply, feeling deeply. You love nothing better than to enjoy one on one time with those who are important to you. You are cautious, and sometimes second guess yourself. Dreams, though you have them, are a luxury, because life is not a plaything. </td> Winter 70% Summer 60% Fall 60% Spring 35% What Season Are You? created with QuizFarm.com

This does make me think of the one 'serious' thing that's been on my mind lately, and that's my own (and to a lesser extent, my bug's) lack of long-term plans. Once upon a time, I lived only for such things... now I've gotten pretty used to not having them. I have several things in mind for 2006 and one thing in mind for the year after that, but after that it's all a white blur. Now, this may make me realistic, in the moment, loose and ready to jump at opportunity, or I might just be an ur-slacker, but I'm kind of wondering how many people really do have long-term plans, anyway. Do you? What are they?

Comments

[savage-rose.livejournal.com]

I only have vague ones.

I think we need longterm plans to some extent, but they're not as crucial as the "middleterm" ones.

[miyyu.livejournal.com]

I guess it depends on what you mean by "longerm plans." I have longterm dreams and goals, but I'm not having much success actually laying the groundwork for them. The biggest one is to live in a custom-built log home. My husband and I just had a very involved discussion about not working towards this and it really isn't resolved.

Do plans mean things you'd like to have? Things you would like to achieve? Places you would like to visit/be? I dunno... I would love to travel more, but again, that costs money I don't have. I thought that I wanted to be considered a player or a leader in whatever field I chose to be involved with, but I'm not so sure of that any more, either.

I think the important thing is not just to have goals, but to be okay revising them as things change.

[flexagon]

Interesting question, and of course it's a central issue. I would say that for something to be a plan you actually have to have, well, a plan. A defined series of actions, coupled with times you plan to do them. bluechromis has a long-term plan to get into med school because she knows what classes she needs to take when in order to qualify, and what year to apply to schools. I would like to completely own my residence someday, but I don't even know where I'll be living by the time I'll be in a position to accomplish that, so it's not a plan, just a daydream.

I agree that it's important to be okay revising goals/plans as things change. Funny though... most of the things I'm proudest of in my life I've gotten by being tenaciously inflexible. I'm not sure what to think of that. I know it's possible to get into bad trouble by being either too flexible or not flexible enough.

What are your long-term dreams and goals, besides (or just more detail on) the log cabin? You don't have to tell, but I am truly interested.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Of course I was a summer. Wasn't a fan of the pic - hi, large breasted slut (or maybe that's accurate?).

You do have long term plans...
1) Keep being friends with me, despite my best efforts to make it difficult.
2) Train HLM in the ways of a Dom
3) Learn to scuba dive (sorry, I'm adding this one for you)
4) Become a yoga master and gross-out friends at parties
5) I bet you start your own company some day, or end up running one, or sell some new revolutionary software for a ridiculous amt of $$.
6) Stay exactly the same weight as you are now for your whole life. ;-P

I'd also like to encourage you to become a cat foster mommy so I can reap the snuggly benefits.

My plans are nicely delineated for quite a while, it's true. That's both peaceful and smothering, depending on my outlook and schedule.

[flexagon]

Ha ha. If not for your abovelisted #1, I would call you LBS from now until the end of time. :D

My dom-in-training tried to convince me I had long term plans too, but the ones he listed seem to be anti-plans. He says we've figured out where to live (don't move) and that we won't have kids (don't change anything).

CLIIIIINNNNNGGGGG! Change is bad!

I am quite open to kitten fostering, however. Or anything else involving adorable little half-socialized furballs.

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I guessed you'd be a Winter. I got the same ... although from the pictures I'm guessing the quiz was meant for women.

I definitely don't have long term plans. I once did. But now long term plans scare and depress the shit out of me, so I try instead to focus on the present. The present is fun, known, and easily alterable ... if desired.

I save diligently, so when the future arrives, hopefully I'll have the means to do what I want. I'll figure out what that is then.

[flexagon]

So you're a cross-quiz-taker. Kinky!

long term plans scare and depress the shit out of me

er... that's a strong statement, my friend. Do you really think the future looks so terrible, even though the present is fun and you're doing a lot of the right things?

We have similar strategies. I, too, save diligently just so it will be there when the future arrives.