Breaktime Over
In our previous episode, our not-so-anonymous hero decided to call it quits for a while and take a break. Honestly, it was refreshing to not have any buzzing (i.e. thinking) in my head. Brainless zombie good.
Then all of a sudden, it started again. How should I put it? The voice of some nagging phantom/narrator: “Alfred, you’ve rested for long enough, shouldn’t you be getting back on your quest?”
The quest of course is still resolving this odyssey business.
A friend of mine (i.e. voice of reason) recently pointed out to me, that I was still searching. I asked him straight up: how does one resolve this “searching” business. His answer: it all comes down to figuring out what is important to you, right now and in the future.
For some reason, I went on to read up on something Paul Graham wrote: The essay where he was addressing the high schoolers. He suggests that instead of working towards a goal, we should “stay upwind.” I would paraphrase this in RPG analogy: while you are waiting for the plot to advance, you should kill monsters and level-up yourself. Staying upwind keeps you being productive instead of spending too much time fantasizing about the pie in the sky.
So, looks like I have two high-level goals to be working on:
- figure out what is important to me
- stay upwind
I think that the next couple of posts will be me trying to work through these items.
