Turtle Meme

Back over at LOGICal eMOTIONs and Middle Zone Musings Tully and Bob have engaged themselves in a "watching turtles do a lap" race (definitely not my choice in words, so don't blame me) to start a new Meme.

And since they have found one (Tully) and passed it over (Bob) I decided to honour this initiative and re-name it in "Turtle Meme" (now I have to be careful here: nomen est omen, could be that it now will take forever to turn into a real Meme ;-))

Anyway, back to the "Turtle Meme":
quote Bob: "But what happened to the goals that, well, didn’t make the cut? Do they just fall by the wayside? Are they consigned to goal purgatory, that place where all despondent goals go when they don’t quite make the team? Whatever happened to them? Gee - what if any of these goals had actually happened?" and then he (as well as Tully) gave us the "Turtle Meme":

The Top 5 Goals I Never Seriously Considered (yet?)

1. Buying a small island in the middle of a crystal clear lake, building a log-cabin, and being able to canoe around the lake almost every day, skinny dipping, fishing, flying kite, writing stories beside a log-fire every evening (all after one of the most wonderful 14 days canoe holiday in Sweden back in 1994)
   
2. Becoming a journalist (family trait I'm afraid) and writing one intriguing story after the other (does blogging count as 'proper' alternative I wonder?)
   
3. Establishing a large chain of showrooms, all selling the best quality Natural Wooden Flooring, not only in the UK, but on main-land Europe also (well, give it another 5 - 10 years)
   
4. Another writer theme: becoming a world-famous (not JKR-like) children's book writer (have been walking around with one idea for years and years now - decades even - , still pondering if I just should start with page 1)
   
5. Being found needed as mentor and then being able to 'follow-in-the-footsteps' of mine (or at least half as good as)
   

Now, my own twist on this Turtle Meme is also that I don't want to 'tag' anyone, I invite everyone to 'tag-along'. But if you do, promise you'll link back to the two Turtles who started it: Tully and Bob

(BTW Tully, I love Top-Gear ;-))