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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[rfrench.livejournal.com]

Well, we've been to Moaning Caverns enough that we have Frequent Repeller cards, and have done the spelunking tour three times that I can think of. It may not be a trip where you pack out your own waste, but it's still interesting...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Well, to be perfectly accurate, you need only go once to get the card. I was about to ask whether we'd been there in the last ten years, but I remember now that we have.

My mother, on the phone this afternoon, reminded me that the aerobatic flight where she was a passenger was also more recent than ten years ago.

As I said to Mary below, I think I'm comparing my day-to-day existence now with selected quirky highlights from The Good Old Days.