A bit of retrospect

questionoftheday asks: What do you wish you spent more time doing five years ago? Ten years ago? How does this effect what you do now?

My answer:

Hmm. Ten years ago would've been 2008, which was the year I started doing yoga. Five years ago would've been 2013, when I was deeply immersed in Battle Pirates.

I don't know what I would've done differently at either of those times. I was where I needed to be, I think. Ten years ago, maybe more fiction writing (although technically in Nov 2008 I would've been doing my 5th successful Nanowrimo, so I guess I already was). Five years ago, maybe more time spent paying attention to offline friends - I was kind of phoning it in on the weekly roleplaying group for a while, due to all the BP drama, and they deserved better than that.

As for what I do now, I guess I'm still chugging along. Life in general is going pretty good. I do spend more time offline than I used to, paying attention to friends, the boyfriend, and the great outdoors. I need to focus more on doing the PhD related work, but that seems to be the case for me and work all of the time.