Hong’s Cave

A couple of days ago, I was talking to a friend of mine about the New Year’s Resolutions and things each wants to do most in life. As I was comparing things with my friend’s and also with those things I wanted to do long time ago (like in or before college), I noticed that there had been some changes to the mixture of my wishes.

It seems most of my previous “wishes” can be classified as one-time, or short-term projects, such as traveling to a particular location in the world, seeing a certain museum, an artwork, etc.

However, that kind of wishes no longer interests me that much. These days, it seems I am more incline to say that I would love to learn a new language, to play piano better, or to try my luck in cooking. That is, I seem to go for more mundane, but more lasting (”long-term”) projects. If I go to some foreign countries, it would be more for a longer term, like a year or so and do something there.

Am I getting old? Maybe I am not getting much satisfaction from just doing something that would soon be forgotten mostly. Am I getting lazy? Maybe, but learning something is not that easy either, so maybe not. I guess I am getting a bit realistic (or better at calculating costs and benefits :p)

Anyway, I just thought that it was interesting to realize the changes in me.