Refreshed

I just came back from vacation, three weeks in Thailand.

I've been refreshed, revitalized, and re-energized.

So much to do: finish the cyvasse game I've started here, post my journal from my Thailand and Cambodia trip (travelingthebeatenpath.blogspot.com), change my home environment from that of a college student to one where I'm proud to bring people, kickstart my learning and growing at work, get back on my health regimen...

I've been thinking a lot lately about my direction in life. I've been trying to figure out where I want to go in my career - whether I want to pursue a management track, or whether I want to keep pushing at the technical track, or maybe I want to go live in some foreign country, or completely change what I'm doing.

But this interview from The Nerdist with Andy Serkis (http://www.nerdist.com/pepisode/nerdist-podcast-andy-serkis/) talks about two kinds of people: drains and radiators. Isn't that what should be guiding my life? What can I do so that I'm a radiator at work? If I think about life in terms of the energy I output and the things I accomplish, maybe it doesn't matter so much what I'm working on - the enthusiasm will come from being a light.

What do you think?