Who Am I?
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 12:32PM Do you ever have that feeling that you're just coasting by in life? It's not being unproductive but at the same time it feels a little like you're just in the middle of a stream watching it flow around you. Is that even a bad thing to experience? To complain about it seems to me to be some definite "First World Problems" but I do feel a little static, a little sedentary.
So many of my friends are settling down, getting married or having kids and here I am still in the same point where I was ten years ago. Is that the price you have to pay for a dynamic life at sea? Is that a price I'm willing to pay?
I'm not sure how I got to this point or what I need to do to get out of this, for lack of a better word, funk. I enjoy my job, I enjoy traveling and seeing amazing places and, for the most part, I like the people I work with. Is it time for a change or will that 'spark' return when I get back to my gig? I suppose only time will tell who I am.
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Reader Comments (2)
Fair to say this is what happens when you have such a long break from life at sea. You don't really have enough time to 'settle' but it's too much time to 'party' all the time, so you're caught with nothing to do. I would think how you're feeling is to be expected and normal. Having said that, I always say there is a reason you become introspective during certain times of your life and if these feelings continue to crop up, listen to them!
You're right, these are the hazards of the job!