Why don't I DO stuff?

[cjsmith]

I just re-read two journal entries, one containing several unusual things I've done and another listing things I haven't done but coulda or woulda liked to. I'm struck by the fact that most of the interesting things I've done were done more than a decade ago, and the things I'd like to do have sat on my "maybe someday" mental list for years.

Was I really so much more interesting ten or twenty years ago? Does this have something to do with being a grownup with a mortgage? Why haven't I done more of the things I'd like to try? What am I so afraid of?

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Well, there was the trip to Egypt....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Mm, true. And my four-day solo backpacking trip, and hiking Half Dome. I do wonder what would be so wrong with turning my hair a nice darkish green.