afford to thoroughly be my eccentric disgraceful daring independent enthusiastic self

I’m so affording it. And it bewilders some. But that’s to be expected.

I have all sorts of more or less crazy ideas and if I were to put them all into action, my life would be… well, I can’t even imagine what it would be like :) It could lead me into making some serious mistakes, but could also be exhileratingly interesting.

As it is, I second- and third-guess many of those ideas right until the opportunity to act upon them is gone. I’m going to change that. It probably wouldn’t be wise to follow every impulse, so I won’t, but why not follow the harmlessly eccentric ones?

This weekend I was listening to street musicians and suddenly wanted to sing. So I went up to them and asked if they’d mind if I sang with them… they were rather surprised, but didn’t mind.A few people gathered and I think they got a little more money than before. They were in a party mood and shouted for everyone to sing along. Sadly enough, no one did, but it was still a lot of fun. I guess I want to be a street musician sometimes. I might do this again, when I’m out of town :)

Hope you don’t mind my adopting your goal, Turandot. I’ve been flirting with it for a loooong time. I think it’s wonderfully worded and something I ought to do far more often. Actually, for me it’s probably more of an “afford to thoroughly become my eccentric disgraceful daring independent enthusiastic self”. Is that a paradox?

I’ve noticed that I have to be more confident to be as strange as I actually am. Especially when I’m around one specific group of friends and acquaintances, who all seem to be so ‘normal’, this becomes fairly tricky.

This goal might get me into a really nice conflict with my respectability goal… :)