Action

When it comes to aspirations, it's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. What's your next step?
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My next step is to bitch about how stupid this prompt is. Seriously. This prompt is full of shit. Here's why:

Having an idea, just the mere act of imagining something other than what is, is infinitely more important than making that idea happen. It can, in and of itself, be life changing. I'm not talking about anything silly like "The Secret" or thinking things into existence. That's just nonsense -- if you want things in life, you have to work for them. Instead, what I mean is that being creative enough to have an idea in the first place affects more than just the idiopathic thoughts in your head. It affects how you see the world. Just changing that view, skewing it even slightly, can be cathartic. Or it can be a catalyst for a metamorphosis of spirit; the metaphysical trailhead on a journey of self discovery and personal growth.

I guess the thing that rubs me the wrong way about this prompt is that it embodies one of the things that rubs me the wrong way about modern society as a whole; this focus on results, events, end points. The road we take to get to those places is completely ignored or, even worse, discounted as unnecessary. We no longer care about the journey, as long as the destination is satisfactory. For me, that journey is important. More important than the destination, even.

And this is where I'm struggling with life, in general. I don't have a destination in mind. I feel like I need to, though. Is that me, saying that to myself? Or is it all the external pressure from everyone else, family, friends, society, saying that I need to conform? Who do I listen to? Do I really need a destination to avoid the stagnation that I'm so frustrated with myself for? Or would it be okay to just pick a direction to walk in, at random? It worked out okay, following my body and my inner self in terms of body integration... Didn't it?

But it's not socially acceptable, wandering, nomadicism (look at me, inventing words -- screw you Dictionary, that's the word I need). We are agrarian, stable, static. Going against that, even in spirit... Sets me out there on that fringe again. Maybe it's time for me to just accept that the fringe is where I belong, and leave it at that.

If only I could figure out why that's such a depressing thought.