What do you want out of your life?

[ulysses]

Personally, not politically. What do you want?

Honestly, I've never entirely known what I wanted, aside from the things, like my marriage, that I didn't know I wanted and needed until after they'd snuck up and whacked me upside the head. The last time I remember knowing what I wanted, it was "to know everything" and I was maybe six years old.

Hey, it's Friday. Anyone?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. to pay attention and be fully present in each moment

so that I am truly alive. Don't always get it, but i'm working on it.

[NaMeaHou]

2. More

of everything. Time, wealth, love, ............

[GOPisEvil]

3. A couple of things I don't have...

1. A job that makes me WANT to get out of bed and work there ALL DAY. A job where I feel as though I make some sort of positive impact on society. As long as it pays enough to keep me debt-free, that's all I need. I don't have many expensive tastes, and those expensive tastes I do have, I can satisfy in a discount way. :-)

2. A deep, meaningful long-term relationship with a wonderful woman. :-) If it's the sexy ACLU lawyer here in town, so much the better. ;-)

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[HEyHEY]

4. Something different, not neccesarily better...

I am happy right now, but you need something to get you up in the morning.always look forward...that's all I care about

[LWolf]

5. I want peace.

Serenity. I don't want to have to worry or spend my candle at both ends trying to keep things going.

Healing. I want my wounds and scars to heal in this lifetime.

I want my own safe space that no one can intrude on. With room for my horses so I don't have to make appointments to talk to them.

I want enough space to grow everything I've ever wanted to grow.

I want to spend my time with good books. With growing things. Walking. Wandering. Pondering. In conversation with people that I care about. I want to see some of the world outside the narrow sphere I've lived in. I want to walk lightly, leaving the world no worse off when I'm gone.

[Droopy]

6. A job that I enjoy

I've gone back to college to finish up my degree in pursuit of that. There are few worse predicaments in life than having to do a job that you hate. Think of all the time that you have to spend at work and having to pass that begrudging every moment. I used to work sixty hours a week at a job like that. It can make your life hell.

[ForrestGump]

7. Everything good. The best of what I've had and then some.

With healthy doses of love, further opportunity to make a positive difference in this world through making the most of my abilities, and a plethora of excellent adventures.

And lotsa other stuff that I can't think of right now because I'm already envisioning a plethora of excellent adventures....

[NaMeaHou]

8. mmmmm

I once had a plethora. Mighty nice.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. And I am in some of them DAMMIT!

and so is the hood of my car :D

[ForrestGump]

16. Mais oui! But of course! NSMA features prominently in

my excellent adventures, on or off the hallowed hood of her car (even under it once, but we won't get into that whole thing 'cos it's kinda kinky and the potential for dipstick jokes just too great)... :loveya:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. and lube jobs...

yeah..best to avoid that one

[ForrestGump]

23. Definitely...

I mean, next thing you know people will be gossiping about well-lubricated pistons, connecting rods, and various kinds of shafts. It could be a horrid mess...

It's a darned good thing that you don't drive a Vulva (oops) Volvo, I say, or they'd comment on that, too. Oversexed scoundrels...

[GOPisEvil]

24. Dear GAWD!!!!

I just took a shower, dammit - I'm going to need another one soon! A COLD ONE!!!

:P

[ForrestGump]

27. Look, there's one now!

Just stay away from that hand-held massaging shower head, you hear, or things'll only heat up more... :D

[GOPisEvil]

29. Are you calling me an oversexed scoundrel?

A scoundrel? Guilty!

Oversexed? Actually, my problem is the opposite. :P

[ForrestGump]

33. We need to sex you up, then

I mean, not me, personally. :-)

And I'm with you in that one, that's for sure.

I mean, not with you, personally. :-)

Though I don't know how much more of ronnyk's diabolical Hyno-Judy I can take...

He must really want that toaster.

[GOPisEvil]

36. I, uh, um, well...

...I haven't given up on the women-folk yet...a little more of this lack of sex, and I mighy be more susceptible to Hypno-Judy...

LOL - that post of yours cracked me up big-time! :D

[SOteric]

35. But you've such a healthy

prostate.

:7

[GOPisEvil]

46. Er, thank heaven for small miracles!

:7

Or, NOT SO SMALL miracles! :P

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. I just want to be able to be with whatever life throws me

and still function absent any baseline fundamental discontent or dissatisfaction.

Guess I'm not terribly driven!

[ForrestGump]

13. Driving Ms NSMA

It's that surfing thing...go with the natural flow of things and use it to your advantage, while avoiding wipeouts. I like it! :-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. Exactly! That's it!

and you are so correct...it is the zen of surfing that I miss so much...

[ForrestGump]

21. But it's always there, just like the feeling of being on the waves will

never leave you. Not too many people have such an intimately visceral knowledge of the feeling that is Zen-like motion - or surfing the Tao, maybe - and it's exactly the same as the elusive mental and spiritual equivalents that so many people search for and never find (probbaly 'cos they're searching for it).

[JanMichael]

11. Nothing and Everything.

No expectations other than to be as good a person as I can be.

My family, my wife, my parents, my siblings, all mean more to me than I mean to me, in the big picture.

All I can hope for is that I do my best to make myself worthy of their love.

<hic> :beer:

[JanMichael]

19. Let me add this: I want to continue to be able to have a fulfilling job.

I've got one now and I'm trying to get one like it in NC.

So far it's not been easy.

I've found that when work is exciting to me everything else gains from it.

[populistmom]

12. Stability, yet excitement

Still trying to find a healthy balance in regards to that oxymoron.
And a chance to bring something positive to the world with my existance.

[booksenkatz]

14. Hey...

I still wanna know everything. I wake up every day feeling like I'm starving for information, so you can imagine my personal frustration with the Bush administration. I'm a current events freak. I wanna know the truth, even if it doesn't fit with my belief system. And I wanna eat sweets until a physician tells me that another piece of candy corn will kill me.

Beyond that, I take it day by day. I have a decent home, a wonderful husband and child, a supportive family. I have a small group of incredible friends. I have everything I need and some of what I want. I have electricity and running water and food. With all of these basic needs taken care of, it affords me great opportunities to read, think, consider, dream, imagine, and learn.

What more could a person want?

[SOteric]

17. Many things, greedy bastard that I am.

Most culminating in things like joy and fulfillment. I have repeatedly faced junctures in my life where I have had access to wealth and power.

They truly don't interest me. Perhaps it's having known and loved someone deeply who then passed from this life. Perhaps it's my own struggles with my health, but I'm keenly aware of how short life can be.

I chose three lowing-paying, but ultimately deeply fulfilling jobs (Sure, there are shitty days. It's a part of life) rather than the high-paying, glam job I had globe-hopping. I have never regretted that decision. I love what I do, and I make enough to subsist and support my kittiesMasters.

I hope I'm never famous. Fame doesn't appeal to me. I hope one day, after I'm gone, people will refer to my miscellaneous writings in academic circles. I hope people like them, and they find reasons to let them touch their lives.

I have been remarkably lucky in that almost all the men in my life have been exceptionally wonderful human beings. Brit and I don't have the most conventional arrangement. It's deep and defies easy description.

I guess what I want from life is happiness and fulfillment. And I'm finding quite a lot of it.

[ForrestGump]

25. I think

that your miscellaneous writings have already touched and enriched many lives, and will only continue to do so....

[ulysses]

52. yeah

I guess, to the extent that I've ever known my own direction, I've kept hearing Garrison Keillor in my head - be well, do good work, keep in touch.

I'd only add cook and eat good things. Not expensive things necessarily, but good things. :)

[prolesunited]

18. The mess in my house

Too much summer fun, training for two century rides, working 1 1/2 jobs and spending too much time on DU has left my house embarrassingly messy. Not too philosophical, but it would be a tremendous boost on my psyche.

[Kamika]

22. a family of my own

I want a real masculine guy that would want a housewife, is a real man and a good father and could support his family.. not that much is it

[KG]

26. a big ol' spliff of ganja!

:smoke:

[Booberdawg]

28. Good question ...

It troubles me lately.

I don't want a lot really. Just to do a good job at the things I choose to take on, whether they be personal or professional. The wisdom to have empathy for others - especially those who have had crosses to bear and disadvantages that I do not have first hand experience with - (There but for the Grace of God go I .... )

A job, I really would like a job. Not just for the obvious financial reasons, but, it is just not good for my mind to have so much idle time. I need to be contributing to something, and be on a regular schedule.

[Lizz612]

30. The ability to "roll with it"

If the internet is down, thats okay. I'll read the paper
If I have a pop quiz, thats okay. I know what I know, thats what pop quizes are for.
If I don't get lunch, I'll have a good dinner.
If my Laundry doesn't quite get dry, well I guess thats okay. Wet clothes dry, even if you're wearing them.
If I get sick, well... I'll get better.
If Bush gets back in the white house, ummm.... working on that.

I want to deal with the punches thrown and grow despite them.

[Sufi Marmot]

31. To stop wanting...

And wisdom... Wisdom would be nice...

-SM

[bunk76]

32. What do you want from life,,

http://the-tubes.com/lyrics/life.htm

This might help?

[Kat45]

38. "and a baby's arm holding an apple"

[scarlet_owl]

34. I want a baby

That's it. That's all. Why is it so damned hard?

[ulysses]

53. got that t-shirt

A year and a half into the adoption process, I think that's what's adding to a lot of the unsettled feeling around Rancho Uly...

[Kat45]

37. What GOPisEvil said in post # 3, but

substituting the word 'man' for 'woman' (and leaving out the ACLU lawyer). :D

[DrGonzoLives]

39. X-Men #1

Seriously.

[Shanty Oilish]

40. 3 things

Inborn goal: Alleviate my own ignorance. There's still so much I don't know.
Goal I grew into: Alleviate despair, every chance I get. There's a lot of it around and I stay busy lifting spirits.
Goal I didn't know I was getting into: Get the kids to that state of maturity where, if I drop dead, they'll be ok with that.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

41. That's what I love about you

Always clear!

[Shanty Oilish]

42. Mutual!

You sure have my number, nsma. I'd rather be noted for clarity than for charity. Or wisdom or looks or humor.
You made my day! :loveya:

[Cheswick2.0]

43. To Sing On Broadway.... and then maybe the Met

Not much to ask

[hussar]

44. minimum of 100 acres and some horses

no sounds of traffic, next to no people, lots of nature mmmmmmmmm

[Susang]

45. Just once

I'd like to not have to worry about money.

[Darranar]

47. Knowledge...

I want to know everything. A close second to that goal, and equally impossible, is immortality.

[bearfan454]

48. To be happy is all.

That is good enough for me.

[Cosmic_Latte]

49. To not miss every opportunity that passes me by

And to see the beauty in everything. :-)

[Terwilliger]

50. a kick for the undecideds

[trof]

51. BUSH*

That's what I want OUT of my life.

[toddzilla]

54. i'd like

to be free from depression..

[arwalden]

55. All I want is a room somewhere,

Far away from the cold night air.
With one enormous chair,

Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?

Lots of choc'lates for me to eat,
Lots of coal makin' lots of 'eat.
Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet,

Aow, wouldn't it be loverly?

[trof]

56. Aow, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still.

I would never budge 'till spring
Crept over me windowsill.

[arwalden]

58. I Would Have Been Disappointed...

... if you hadn't joined in.

-- Allen

[trof]

61. You should 'ear me Cockney, mite.

;-)

[SPICYHOT]

57. I want to have love

a man, a guy to share time, someone to talk with, not just to have sex and then after a couples of night get bored and say chao. I think i'm ready to settle down, and have a nice time....

[Character Assassin]

59. To kindnap an heiress, or threaten her with a knife

Or a Monza, a Matador or a baby's arm holding an apple.

[nini]

60. Serenity..

anything that comes along with that is fine.

[expatriot]

62. well I wouldn't mind my wife out of my life right now.. no, just kidding..

this is personal not political: I want the political situation to be of such a state that I wouldn't feel like it was necessary for me to be politically involved. I would want nothing more than to spend my free time, reading, writing and drawing instead of how I spend all of my free time now: political action.