Another Life Plan???

My friend A sent another distress signal - i.e.an email for me to call him because his company is cutting down on phone call expenses hahaha -- and we got to talking about our usual "what have we done to our lives" melodrama. He and I are like wonder twins gifted with superior sense of paranoia and unique tendency to overanalyse things. I think we are both getting the concept of stepping up in Maslow's ladder to sef-actualization but never have the guts nor the will to leave behind our material bliss. And so we labor (or so it seems) day in and day out as corporate slaves. What sucks more is that we are actually good at what we do and are in fact high potentials. High enough to actually have been given rare lavish expat packages which many would die for and funnily, something which we never asked for . And since we so often tend to look at things half-empty, we blame ourselves for not having had a hand in controlling or steering our destiny. And so, come end November, we will once again congregate, together with our two other bestest buddies, to re-craft our life plans which for some reason, we never get to follow through on. Pathetically, we both gave up on 2008 already (even with two full months ahead!) and start anew in 2009.

I call mine my Jerry Maguire worksheet which details my desired endpoint until 50 years old. Not a surprise to me that none has been fulfilled to this day. But it gives me comfort somehow that a plan exists even if there's no deliberate execution. Sigh.