Something Outrageous!

[Sad Eyed Lady]

Do you ever have this feeling that you just want to do SOMETHING outrageous? You don't even really know what it is, but something totally out of character for you? I do this quite often, and I don't know where it is coming from, or why, but I am just struck with this desire or need to go so out of character and do something unexpected and outrageous. Nothing irrevocable, nothing even grand scale like say, jump on a plane and fly to Paris, but just some out of the ordinary crazy thing. Come on, who else has this feeling happen to them? Have you acted on it? What have you done? Maybe I just need some inspiring stories!;)

[Float On]

Yes!
Lately I've been feeling that a lot because I've felt stuck here and I'm ready for a big change. DH doesn't want a change so I'm left with that feeling of wanting something and not being able to get it yet.

[domestic goddess]

I've had the feeling, but I usually stifle it because I really don't want to do something unpredictable and then have people wanting me to do it more often. I don't think I could live up to the expectation. I'm just not really the outrageous type. Outrageous, for me, would be something like wearing shorts outside in the summer. Not gonna happen, unless I am also delirious.

[CeciliaW]

I tend to get this urge to travel, to just Go See things.

A couple of years back, while wandering through random travel sites, I put together a trip with a few days in London and a few days in Paris for an amazingly low price. My Sweetie has repeatedly said that he'd drive me to the airport if he didn't have to go on the trip, so I went and asked him if he was busy in about 8 hours.

He drove me to the airport and picked me up 8 days later.

I love traveling by myself because I can rest when I want to. I can eat what I want to and I can see what I want to without having to coordinate with other people.

Sweetie was very happy to stay home and keep the cat company and I was very happy to 'Go See'.

[lhamo]

I've been having crazy fantasies about quitting our jobs, selling our apartment and running off to do something totally different. Like starting a farm somewhere in Inner Mongolia or some cheap and needing gentrifying area of the rustbelt (like the guy who won the Macarthur for his urban farm, name escapes me at the moment)-- when the total output of my container gardening experiment last summer was three tiny cherry tomatoes and one miniscule green pepper. Or a scuba/surf business in costa rica -- when no one in the family speaks Spanish, scuba dives OR surfs. I hope this isn't a premonition that the property market here is about to tank. If it is, I'd better do something crazy quick!

I would love to be able to take a spur of the moment trip somewhere. Our vacations are usually planned out months in advance due to work/school schedules and the need to plan ahead to get good international air fares.

lhamo

[razz]

I had this feeling come up especially strongly when I had nothing on the calendar to look forward to with anticipation.
Once the Metopera HD and other theatres became something to look forward to with great enthusiasm, I was satisfied.
Who was it said that 60% of the trip is the planning and anticipation.

I am quite happy to go by myself for exactly the same reasons as Cecilia.
I was going to go to the Christopher Plummer HD this Thursday evening (in Canada anyway) and suddenly I am going with a carload who enjoyed my excitement at the prospect. Have to see how that group approach works out.

[SiouzQ.]

I always have that feeling, especially when I get in a rut! I want to throw all caution to the wind and do what I want to do when I want to do it. Single parenthood cured me of that. I almost did it recently, but then I got the new job! Luckily, I have a strong sense of inner responsibility and the were withal to do "outrageous" things the right way by sort of planning it out somewhat and not just jumping "off the cliff" without considering the consequences, like I used to back in my twenties.

[fidgiegirl]

I often have this feeling, too. Many times it is cured by just taking the day away from the house and GOING somewhere - a new park, a new store or restaurant, etc. We end up puttering a lot. We like it, but then sometimes I think - bah! I just want to get out of here and DO something!!!

[catherine]

One time I did something completely out of character for me. I had a job that I really didn't like, but it did have health insurance, which is why I was working. My daughter and DH were in Richmond VA for three months (my daughter had a part in the 1993 version of Lassie). Because of my scheduling and that of my three boys (who were home with me), there were only two days that would work for me to drive to VA and see my daughter and husband. Those were the only days out of four months I'd be able to see my daughter.

So I called my boss and left a message that I needed to take two days off, and I'd be back on Wednesday. (The opportunity had been a last minute one). Well, she called and she told me that if I didn't come to work on Monday, not to come back at all.

I'll never forget that 30 seconds--being extremely responsible, my impulse was to just cancel the trip. But, I looked at my sons' faces and I thought about seeing my daughter and husband, and I said, "I'm sorry you feel this way, but I have to take this time off."

And when we got in the car and took off, knowing I was leaving a job behind, it was so great, frankly. I had a wonderful time in Richmond with my family.

The PS in this story is, I went to clean out my desk the following Thursday, and my boss called me and said, "Next time you do that, please give me more notice." And I said, "I didn't think there was going to be a next time." And she basically rehired me after firing me. AND she gave me more job flexibility in terms of working hours, which I needed being a "single" mom for those few months.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Do you ever have this feeling that you just want to do SOMETHING outrageous? You don't even really know what it is, but something totally out of character for you?

ALL THE TIME!!! I seldom do anything though, it's not so much that I'm conventional, but more just that I'm not spontaneous (so even non-conventional things are oh so carefully planned). Even when I think "oh that's it, I'm going to dye my hair!" (and that's a pretty minor wild and crazy, right?). I then realize how hidous the grow-out will look. :laff:

[Mighty Frugal]

When I graduated from college everyone had decided what I should do next. So I took off west. Found a job in a posh hotel in Lake Louise and had the time of my life for a couple of years.

Then I came back and began my career.

Aside from that, I'm not very spontaneous and generally like order and control in my life.

When I do get that feeling of doing something crazy I usually satisfy it by eating a whole lot of chocolate or knocking on some unsuspecting person's door and then running away-that usually hits the spot

[Blackdog Lin]

Being spontaneous isn't my style, and doesn't make me happy. I am SO boring.....sigh.....but at 55 years of age, I am finally content with my boringness.

I envy y'all your ability to enjoy personal spontanaity.....(is that spelled right?)

:D

[KayLR]

I do, all the time...the last time I did I dyed my hair blue (with washout temp dye) for Light it up Blue (autism awareness). My DH sat next to me on the couch and watched an entire movie and did not notice...

...sometimes I get the urge to run away...

[Gardenarian]

Oh yes, I get urges to do crazy things all the time. I usually channel that energy into doing something rigorous outdoors - climbing, kayaking, swimming. Sometimes it shows up in my garden - I'll just dig up all those daisies I never liked anyhow and plant something that speaks to me. I love to climb - rock climbing, mountains, trees - I love being high up in a tree. it's secret and quiet up there, and a little scary.

[shadowmoss]

Yep. I was totally unhappy in WA. My boss finally told me to go ahead and start looking for a new job (I had promised him to stay till the end of the contract). I went to a co-worker and said 'find me a job' mostly just wanting contacts. He said 'you want a job in Honduras?' I thought a minute and said 'yes'. Not sure what I'll do for an outrageous encore.

I think it is good to break down my interior restraining walls just so I remember that I'm the one who built them and I can break through them if I want. Also, getting out of the ordinary can give me a new viewpoint to check what is working and what may need to be changed. But mostly it's just to remind myself that if walls are there its because I put them there. Moving to Honduras was on the major side of that, but I needed something of this magnitude to stop feeling sorry for myself that I never could do anything like travel like others do. Turns out I can if I want it badly enough.

[Spartana]

I do this quite often, and I don't know where it is coming from, or why, but I am just struck with this desire or need to go so out of character and do something unexpected and outrageous.

Maybe your desire to do something outrageous IS a part of your character but you have just been stifling it. Society, family, friends, etc... all tell us how to behave all the time and sometimes that behavior is what we determine is OUR character, but in reality you really are just a wild and crazy girl ready to break free and be your true self :-)!

I do wild and crazy things all the time so doing something outrageous is part of my character and often gets me in trouble - but I always have fun :devil::devil: