The question was asked, "Where are you going?"

Runs With Scissors said:

I have no idea where I'm going but I'm having a great time getting there.

Barbara said:

I'm going where I'm supposed to be going, swimming the tides wherever
they're going, riding the horse in the direction it's going, going straight
to my grave. I'll be back.

Jennifer Dorn said:

We'll start with the glib answers and then go to the real ones.

Spiritually: Hell. Or not, since I don't actually believe in it. But I've been told. Plus, I'm a lawyer.

Physically: Probably the grocery store. And in a month to the Dominican Republic.

Where do I want to go? All over the world - I want to see people, places, and cultures that I've never seen and would like to. I want to see the wonders of the world. I want to help rebuild post-conflict societies, piece back together what was lost. I really think that the only way we survive as a human race is that there are people willing to do work for human rights and humanitarian assistance even if it never balances out the tide of destruction and death. So, I guess there's only one answer to "Where am I going?" -

I'm going to work.

Christopher Staab said:

They're comming to take me away, haha!
They're comming to take me away, hoho!
To a happy home, with trees and flowers
And Basket weavers, who twiddle their thumbs
Hoho, hehe, haha, they're comming to take me away!

Monica Awe said:

Funny question as I have been asking that a lot lately. I am on the verge of
changing my identity in many ways. I will be graduating from law school soon,
so I will no longer be “a scientist” or “a student” instead I will be
a “lawyer.” Additionally, I am getting married soon. I will no longer be
checking “single” on my taxes, and I will be changing my name. Finally, I am
contemplating becoming a mother in a few years which will change my position
in my family and society in general. In fact so much is changing soon that
think it is very appropriate that I will be getting a new name, hopefully it
will help me to make the necessary psychological transitions. So where am I
going? I have no idea. I frankly have no idea where I will be going
literally, as I may need to move to work. I frankly have no idea where I will
be going figuratively either. I have never been a lawyer, or a wife, or a
mother. All I know is that I have good friends and familythat are not about
to change and so this is not too scary. I am ready. Life: bring it on!
-Monica Awe (soon to be Hall)

Mary said:

"Where are you going?"

"Out"

"Out where?"

"drugstore"

"oh ok, buy me some deodorant will you? The unscented stick in the blue container...well you know what kind I use"

"yeah"

"Oh and a candy bar"

"k"

"love ya!"

"you too"

"While you're out, will you drop this in the mailbox for me? thanks"

Betty Jo said:

To the booby hatch, hopefully later rather than sooner.

Jackie Winkelman said:

Out of all the places I've lived or visited, I was always going home.

Carl Klinger said:

So, Where am I going?

I am travelling in concentric circles, looking outwards. I am spiralling inwards towards a central point which I cannot see, only percieve. I see the same things pass before me all the time as I look outwards; the same friends, the same job, the same everything, but I know I am travelling to a new position. I'm still not sure if the central point will be a fixed and safe one, or the end of all motion and momentum, but the ride is interesting either way.

Lots of people try to plot out where they are going, and a few do not care. I don't feel a lot of control at the moment, and can only hope the powers that be are guiding me towards something good. Cling to the strongest thing within reach.

Nathan Ferch said:

i'm going, or more accurately, rapidly approaching something many people abhor
and a very few look forward to: middle age. while it seems it was a mere bat
of the
eyelash when i was excited about being able to stay out until midnight with my
parents' car, i'm faced with the fact that i have less than two years until
the big 3-0-- i've most likely lived over a third of my life.

whereas the pressures of the 20's are to mature as a person, establish a
career, and potentially find a mate, the societal pressures of the 30's are
completely new. you're expected to settle down, get married (if you don't have
a few years of matrimony under your belt), and have kids. your career (you DO have a career, right?) has gained enough stability and fiduciary legitimacy to
make this possible. you have an extensive network of friends and family to
support this venture.

my path, as unconventional as it may be, has followed the blueprint of the One
True Life Path (tm) well enough to quell my parents' worries and be smalltalk
fodder at social events without raising too many eyebrows. i'm not going as
fast as some people, but i'm still heading in the same direction.

earlier in life i thought these decisions would become easier as i got older.
i'd find a way of life that suited me and i'd have no reason to diverge.
but it's become evident that there's no such thing as momentum in life;
decisions are getting harder, not easier. i'm left with fundamentally the same
problem-solving tools i had years ago, and the experience i've picked up only
seems to be relevant in the scope of what society thinks i should do.

the outcome of the decisions seem rather arbitrary. is the city i live in
going to make much more of a difference than the color of my bedroom? will my
children care for the homeless or be homeless? how much of a difference will
it make if i clean filesystems or toilets?

Katherine Olson said:

I don't really know if there is a where. I'm on a journey, to be sure, but I can't see very far ahead of myself. I do my best to make the most of where ever I am on the path at any given time and to enjoy the view of where I have been. However, if I ever get "there", I'll be sure to send a postcard if I can.