A Fresh Start

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when was the last time you had a fresh start, a complete break (basically changing everything)??? do you plan on doing it again anytime soon?

my last one was coming to london 3 years ago, which broke off everything before it. i may do something similar later this year. how about you?

― gareth, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I came back to Manchester in 96. I thought it was a clean break, and for a while it was, but then people found me...

But only nice people so it was okay.

Every year at the beginning of spring I start daydreaming about making a break for it.

― misterjones, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Next Thursday. I finish work then, after that I intend to trim my belongings down wildy (not getting rid of records, cds etc, but ditching books I'll never read again and clothes I'll never wear again) sorting my life out then as we all know by now, pissing off out of the country for a few months. Hopefully I'll come back with some idea of what I want to do, I'm getting a bit bored of being aimless.

― chris, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

moving to london in september, i guess. although going to university was probably a bigger break. i suspect i'll move to america in 2-3 years which will be a totally fresh start (and i should be going there for 3 months at the end of this year which will give me a taste of that).

― toby, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never really had the desire to make a radical change and I doubt if I have the willpower to do so.

― jel --, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is like those adverts on bus shelters trying to convert burglars: Change is as good as arrest or something equally naff. I don't want to break off from everything, it'd be like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Not that I have a baby or anything.

― Emma, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

breaking up with my steady and moving to england last year. so sort of the reverse of toby's future situation. but yeah, i suspect going to college will always be the most sudden premeditated change in my life. as for doing it again, i don't know - i'm already feeling a bit restless so something will change soon.

― dave k, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my changes tend to be somewhat forced upon me, though - i doubt i'd move around so much off my own bat. eg moving to london was more of a case of realising that staying in cambridge was a bad option, and london being the least scary place to go; ditto when i finish my phd i'll want to get a postdoc somewhere other than imperial of cambridge, and at that point going overseas is clearly the best option.

― toby, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Changing absolutely everything? Not for a while -- 1997, when I got a full-time job for the first time and moved into a house (rented, but still).

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is like those adverts on bus shelters trying to convert burglars: Change is as good as arrest or something equally naff

But arrest is a bad thing?

― Graham, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New start next month. Possibly.

― rosemary, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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