What's Next?

I am totally pumped about Super Smash Bros Brawl next week. I bought a Gamecube specifically to play Melee and it did not disappoint. Brawl looks like they’ve thrown in everything but the kitchen sink. I’m very excited to play the Pictochat stage where the “user” draws in stuff that becomes the level. I haven’t seen this since…well since Comix Zone about 15 years ago. I’m a total sucker for Nintendo nostalgia and Brawl has me falling all over myself with the classic characters, levels, music, references, etc. Hope to play you guys online! My Wii friend number is on the right. And while we’re on the Wii, where the hell is Pro Wrestling? This is an egregious Virtual Console omission. It was apparently announced as “coming soon” a long time ago, but I have been disappointed every Monday for weeks. C’mon Nintendo, put it out there!

In intellectual news, I was watching a movie over the weekend and the main character started talking about all of the major dreams/goals he has had in life. It got me thinking about my own. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a race car driver. Of course that never happened. When I was in high school, I just wanted to get the hell out. When I was in college, again I just wanted to get finish school so I could marry my college sweetheart. After I got married, I just wanted to be left alone with my wife and start a family. Now that I have children I realize that I don’t have any dreams anymore. It’s rare that you meet a person who has had all of his life goals realized, but not counting the race car thing, I am just such an individual. I understand how lucky that makes me, but now I wonder what’s next? I’m not even half though with my life and I’ve done it all. Yes, I still have fantasies; I’ve always wanted to set a pitching machine up at an MLB park to see if I could hit one out. I’ve always wanted to drive a Ferrari 355. I’ve always wanted to win the lottery and build a house with a basketball court, bowling alley, video game room and movie theater all in the basement. However, these fantasies are not likely to ever become reality for me. That’s not a concern. What is a concern is wondering if the fact that I have no more major life goals at the ripe old age of 30 is a problem. Right now, it absolutely is not. But I’d hate to get down the road and be screwed up as a result. So I guess I’ll focus on little goals. So for my next dream: I would like to go to Cedar Point for a week. That seems pretty doable. Of course it will have to wait several years until the kids are older, but this is something I’ve always wanted to do. I’ve never been there and it looks like a blast...despite the fact that I am petrified of most "big" rollercoasters! But more on my various phobias at a later time. This "dream" may seem trivial, but I guess if you are fortunate enough to have knocked out the big dreams (job, house, spouse, family) then the little guys will have to do.