Drifting, passions, and coincidence

I have spent a lot of the past year reading and thinking about life and happiness and goals and passions.  Trying to understand what I want and need, hoping that I’ll find, somewhere, a drive to DO something, anything, whether I can achieve it or not, just so I know what I want to achieve and do.  I was reading this post http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2009/07/quiz-are-you-drifting.html in the Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/ that dealt with "drifting" – the tendency to just "go with the flow," but in a bad way; taking the easy way or simply not making decisions to go anywhere, following through with something that was decided a long time ago or by or for someone else and never thinking about whether it’s what you want to do or not.

Since I was procrastinating anyway, I decided to put Rubin’s book on my wishlist for Amazon then, and by odd coincidence discovered a sweepstakes they have going.  You enter by adding something to your wishlist, and there is a different prize and drawing every week for ten weeks.  There are things like jewelry and shopping trips, giant televisions, and a trip to Disney.  The one for this week- for which you have to enter by midnight tonight- is a photography tour of Yellowstone.  It’s the only one on the list that I have any interest in winning at all.  I looked at all of the other prizes, but none of them sparked any response in me.