This was a great perspective to add onto my own vague ideas as I enter the new year. Late last year I quit my job and left my apartment, placed all my junk in

This was a great perspective to add onto my own vague ideas as I enter the new year. Late last year I quit my job and left my apartment, placed all my junk in storage and for the next few months will be travelling around Europe to dance tango until my budget runs out. The goal is to find out where in the world I want to move and work, to meet new friends, to make art, and to dance as much as I can. At this stage, in the jargon of the blog post, you might say that I am rather explorative. I made this plan after my old job became unbearable, and at the same time a lot of my friends started to leave town, and also my apartment's contract was coming to an end. Seemed like an opportune moment to do something so crazy. While packing my stuff I took the time to organize all the old papers I'd shoved away in a closet, including old notebooks and drawings all the way back to kindergarten. In the process, it became clear to me how far I had strayed from the strengths, passions, and hopes of that small boy I used to be. Tango totally blindsided me a-year-and-a-half ago. I always dreaded dancing, feared it, but decided to join some friends attending a beginners class. The payout on that unlikely arm of the bandit has been absolutely staggaring. So, while quite exploratory, my journey will be exploitative as well. I still have left room for more kinds of discoveries. I have vague plans of drawing, writing poetry, writing a blog and publishing videos, learning new programming languages, and more. I definitely will be bringing my guitar, but after reading this blog post I am asking myself whether the smart thing to do would be to narrow down my options at some early stage of the journey, and even throughout it, honing in on just a couple of the things I want to do, if not just one. The idea of limiting myself is both unsettling and yet also relieving. I already feel like I know the order in which I will cut off the arms of the bandit. And if I'm lucky, it won't simply turn into a Hydra!