back to it...

Entering into the last few months is proving more difficult than getting through the previous 5. Little bit of lack of sleep via Cairns and Airlines PNG, but really to do with having reconnected “into” Melbourne – and it’s relationships, friends, family and lack of potholes - now psyching up for more busy-ness.

Plus it always s*cks a bit coming back from a holiday with a beautiful girl.

It’s the last lap – at least for 2007’s overseas jaunts. With 2 months or so left in the job and with people all around – lots of questions, and only some answers. These questions seem to apply equally (most times) to some work decisions coming up, and also to some other decisions en route to Melbourne again. But mostly I agonized quite a bit about coming back to Oz – based on some of these.

[Paraphrased from a little Edward Craig book]
Should you do “A” or not? Well… what will the consequences be if you do? What are the consequences for friends, family, and others, as well as those for yourself? And what if you don’t? How do the consequences compare? Alternatively, never mind the consequences for a moment, can you do “A” consistently with your own view of yourself – would it involve betraying ideals that till then you had valued and tried to live up to? How will you feel about having done it? Or again, however pleasant the consequences may be, would it run contrary to some duty, or some obligation you have incurred? Obligation to whom? – and might you be in breach of other obligations if you don’t do it? Do obligations towards friends and family take precedence over duties towards the State or vice versa? And if you have a religion, what might it say about the choice?

Luckily the Q&A’s about catching up with good friends for a beer back in Lae aren’t complicated! Best drop the think’in for a bit and get onto that now...