Same here...family & other responsibilities...My true calling is a "cheerleading coach"...but for the time being...my wife is working on her PhD here in New Orleans...she's a Jersey girl & a "cheerleading coaching" job at Princeton just opened up.........but---plans for that are on hold...

Cheers to ME----for CHEERING her on---

I was a cheerleader in High School.  I really enjoyed it and it was a lot harder than people thought.  When people hear I did that, they always seem to have a snide remark.  Did you cheer in school?

Princeton is right down the road from where I live.  You should take the chance and visit the campus.  You only live once! 

Yes, I cheered in college--- I was also a member of 4 collegiate National Championship teams...I still coach & choreograph on the side for teams & MS Fitness competitions...

My wife is from Toms River...we've visited the campus one winter....burrrr....to me...but beautiful campus...

She has another year left of her phd program---i'll see where we end up...

Cheers---

Yes buy all means, spread those wings. If you keep putting it off you may never do it. I have heavy work load all the time, and I travel everyday. For a long time I only used vacation to go see my kids or for Doctor and Dental appointment, or car repair. I now say I want "ME TIME!". To go see, experience and live. For years it was work and back home. Since I adopted this attitude I have gone more and done more. You can’t take it with you! I never heard of anyone saying on their death bed. "I wish I had spent more time at work." It is a fact that Americans lose more vacation time, now more than ever. I plan a weekend get-a-way every month even if only for a day. I plan vacation trip four times a year. One is a big one. Because of my working myself to death I have damaged my health. I adopted the Green Living life to change my life. By Green Living I am reducing my expenses and therefore having the money to do the travel I want to do. From the movie "Grumpy Old Men" Burgess Meredith is saying to Jack Lemon.

"One day you wake up and your not 80 anymore. You are 91 and you count the minutes and not the days. That all there is Johnny, the experience!" I say go for it. If you want to go to Greece do it. If you partner doesn’t they are out of luck. One of my favorite quotes from the musical "Mame" "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" Go! Go! Go!

.... a Greek island and it was wonderful. I encourage you to save the money and take the time to do it and as soon as possible. It was part of our European Honeymoon and it was the best part of it. We enjoyed every moment of it!

I'm not sure that fear holds me back from my true desirs as much as lack of money does. Maybe that's what I need to overcome is the fear of being poor (not that we are even close to it but I do worry about not having enough money.) Something to work on.....

We went to Italy a few years ago and it was just wonderful.  I always think back to sitting in a plaza and soaking up the culture.  Life is too short not to do the things you truly want to do.  Money is always an issue with me as well.  But my husband has cousins who always seem to find the money to go and travel.  To them, that is a priority over a new couch or a game boy for their kids.  Maybe it's about priorities.  I need to look at what I want to do and just find a way to do it.

Fear of failing is one my biggest concerns at times, and generally I think that, that is what holds many people from accomplishing their goals... because we're so afraid to aim fearing that we might not get what we want. I tell myself everyday though, that by aiming for whatever I want I'm a little closer to actually getting it as opposed to never even trying.

 

Plus I think that not going for it generally kills me more than failure itself, because at least that way the uncertainty is gone.  

 

 

You have one life to live and i want to try and see as much as the world as I can.  Right now my goal is Greece or Paris.  Next summer I hope to visit one or the other.  My husband travels and I am lucky to be able to go with him sometimes.  I can feel the travel bug bite me, especially during the summer.  I just want to hop on a plane and go......

When I was on the Amalfi Coast in Italy a few years back, I just could not believe that a whole world exists outside my New Jersey town.  That I could be in an entirely new place only 7 or 8 hours away.  I looked at the kids playing soccer in town and thought of my boys doing the same thing.  You realize how close we are to other destinations and that it is so doable to just go and experience. 

As summer winds down, I have yet to satisfy my wanderlust, but my husband surprised me with a tript to Hawaii in Sept.  Just the thought of planning for it and researching all the things we want to do is getting me through the last weeks before school starts.  What is there about getting ready for a trip that I love so much?  The unknown, the food, the people?

I swear I was born footloose.  Don't take for granted the places you have been!  I want to see the world more than anything besides getting married and having a family.  It is the greatest passion of my heart, but I've only left the U.S. once before.  Last summer I went to Tijuana, Mexico with a volunteer group.  Although I am grateful to have seen much of the beautiful U.S., I will never stop desiring to experience the world.  But I am only seventeen, so I think I still have a lot of time to be footloose and carefree!!