What is Your Dream in Life?

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Originally Posted by Solarflare

This made me laugh :cheeky:

but you ARE saving a life by doing that

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I've thought about signing up for that too, also bone marrow.
However, I cannot reconcile the fact that I may be saving a complete asshole.
So I just signed up for when I'm dead. lol
Can't get any use out of it then anyway.

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Originally Posted by niteLite

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Those pictures are insane! I feel like looking at them are spoilers for if I ever decide to take action to travel the world, but I have to look o_o

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haha, I feel the same way, that's why I rarely look at those pictures, and have only seen a couple of aurora, it's one of my dreams to see it.

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Originally Posted by niteLite

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While I'm travelling the world, I also wanna sail around it!

I gotta wait a little bit and save up money. But it will happen! :D

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Can I come?

My dream is to meet someone who will want to travel the world with me, who doesn't care too much about social status, as in, big money job etc.
and who also does not take shit too seriously, doesn't buy wasteful shit, just generally rational and smart and open minded, but not a fraud hippy type person.
If not, I want to do it alone. Maybe just meet some cool people along the way.

Spoiler for lots of money alternative:

The only reason I do actually want a shitload of money is because I could then affect change. I would definitely not keep most of it. I would not donate it to charities,
but instead do something more like Bill Gates does, and spend it directly, helping others, building schools, getting good teachers to go to poorer regions etc.
I would also stop oil companies and manufacturers from raping poorer countries. And if the people wanted to keep living tribal lives, I would help get them
educated on how to do that (coz it can be lost over generations, as it has in some places), along with their normal education.

I figure I would need about $100billion to change the world to how I would want it, Apple's profits from last year alone.

I don't like that charities are just trying to convert everyone to Western ways of living, we need contrast and differentiation.

TL;DR - I would keep the good parts of the 3rd world's traditional living practices, while providing them with education and health care which are positives from
1st world cultures.

Tommo, we have similar dreams vis-a-vis money.

I've actually just started writing code in the past few days that will make me a billionaire a few thousand times over. I guess that's a trillionaire. Doubt I'll be able to be the first one but it will still be cool.

Then, I'll rule the world. Or get my ass assassinated.

Do you write code or do anything useful to a start up?

I do not. Useful to a startup? I guess graphic design and illustration are useful, but obviously only via lending my skills to another person creating a company.

I tried programming a few times, I could never get past the math. I could if I tried, but I don't think I have enough interest to keep me going.

I do have a quite good idea that I've been thinking about, nothing close to millions of dollars, or even hundreds of thousands, but I think it could make me quite a bit.

Let me know how this code goes :)

I want to be a successful author, and accomplished musician, and part of some sort of organization that's capable of easing the suffering of people.

I have my goal pretty much set, i want to become a general surgeon. I can't imagine a more exciting job than cutting people open, fixing their internals and recieving their gratitude.

Might not be as epic as your dreams, but this goal is not at all impossible.

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Originally Posted by Pumpkin

My goal isn't to become famous or get money. Those things just aren't important to me. I dream about making every single person I meet happy. Make them feel great about themselves...even if I hate them. I also dream of writing multiple books. They don't have to be successful, but I dream of going into a bookstore and seeing my book on the shelf.

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Wake up and smell the coffee. Money is important. Or do you mean you want to publish a book and be homeless at the same time?

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Originally Posted by Freda

I have my goal pretty much set, i want to become a general surgeon. I can't imagine a more exciting job than cutting people open, fixing their internals and recieving their gratitude.

Might not be as epic as your dreams, but this goal is not at all impossible.

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I may need to burst your bubble here, although I'm sure it's not absolute, so take it with a grain of salt.
My dad is a doctor, when he was doing his internship at a hospital, basically he said that you have to end up
specialising, which is why he became a GP, he didn't want to be cutting out gall bladders all day.
There are only general surgeons for a couple of years, until they're made to specialise.

Of course, if this is the case everywhere, you could still specialise in something cool, like heart surgery or brain surgery.

Maybe take this more as a cautionary tale, rather than something which will definitely happen, and then maybe you can
avoid it or take advantage of it.

Admirable goal though, so well done! :D

I'd want to be high school psychology teacher with a wife and a daughter, and preferably enough money to live comfortably (65k or more a year). And that urban pop music that passes for "hip hop" these days would no longer be played on the airwaves, rap/hip hop would go back to what it was like in the 90's.

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Originally Posted by tropicalbreeze

to continue to push my body to my maximum potential and explore this beautiful planet.

i just don't want to get to a point in my life where i'm living just to only exist.

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Hahaha, I feel exactly the same way. Am not sure why, but I have always needed a goal or something I truly value to do. Maybe its the same for everyone.

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Originally Posted by Castles

To live in a place far away with new people and new experiences. With my s/o of course. I am just so sick and tired of the same thing every day. I feel like if I don't get out now I never will.

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I sort of understand. I don't like feeling "trapped" in my own environment. I feel like I crave freedom, and any sort of constraints to that freedom are usually a challenge to me - only if I find those constraints irrational and not self-imposed hahahaha...nothing like hurting others! :paranoid:

:lol:

But seriously, the routine sort of bores me. I can totally appreciate the ease of my current lifestyle, my friends and everything, but there is so much more out there to learn and experience!

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Originally Posted by khh

I guess I want to be a great inventor. I want to be able to cause a small technological revolution, and to make "enough" money off that. And I want to be able to point to something and say "I made that" :P

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Love this! Good luck :D

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Originally Posted by tommo

haha, I feel the same way, that's why I rarely look at those pictures, and have only seen a couple of aurora, it's one of my dreams to see it.


Can I come?

My dream is to meet someone who will want to travel the world with me, who doesn't care too much about social status, as in, big money job etc.
and who also does not take shit too seriously, doesn't buy wasteful shit, just generally rational and smart and open minded, but not a fraud hippy type person.
If not, I want to do it alone. Maybe just meet some cool people along the way.

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Interesting, hahaha, I see money in a similar way. I care about it when it comes to living sustainably and comfortably. But I am much more interested in the amount that can be done to cause change with enough of it.

Aside from that, the way I wanna do it is to travel and have people join as I go along. So I'd definitely be up for making new friends to travel with.

My issue right now is taking responsibility for my student loans and any other things that keep me constrained from travelling freely and getting these things out of the way as soon as possible. In the immediate future, I'm gonna get a job after I graduate to pay them off. But I also wanna start on one or two of my business ideas to try and fuel everything. The faster I can get to travelling, the better. :D

Great dreams!

I want to be like my great uncle: Be married to the love of my life, play with my grandchildren and make them laugh. Be friends with all my neighbors. Drink coffee in the morning, beer in the afternoon.

Be free. Live among nature. Escape the madness of the plastic man made world. Grow my own food. Help people find freedom and peace. Be a healer. Have chickens and goats. Have lots of adventures!

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Originally Posted by saltyseedog

Have chickens and goats.

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I've often summed up my dream as "chickens, goats and a bamboo tree house." That's only half the story though. I'm still gonna have that, I'm just not gonna tell anybody about it :) I'll have some smoking high-tech, green, mansion to show off so everybody thinks I live there. Then I'll just dip out to my tree house. Probably put it up somewhere near Kipahulu.

I want one of those hobbit homes personally. Maybe several, linked underground. Although a bamboo tree house does sound nice.

Hobbit homes are the way to go in temperate environments. I'm strongly subtropical so we want elevation.

I want to play Rachmaninov 2nd piano concerto with awesome orchestra in Carnegie Hall.

Also, I want to live in Japan and have money to buy all the things I may need, so more than usual, but not super rich.

Aside from living in Japan, I want to go to China during Chinese New Year and all other metropolas (like Paris, London, San Francisco and so on) I also want to speak 9 languages. Slovak (native), English (need to add some vocab), German (still long way to go), French (still long way to go), Spanish, Portugese, Japanese (still long way to go), Chinese (preferably Mandarin dialect, although no problem with Cantonese, too) and Russian. That's about it.

EDIT: Oh, I also want to play violin averagely, so I could possibly play in orchestra.

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Originally Posted by Duck

German (still long way to go)

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Its really hard but not impossible!

My dream is to marry my girlfriend,build a house, have children and maybe become a respectable guitarist ..its bland but that what my heart wants...

I just want to play guitar well and develop games.

I am but a simple man.

My dream was to have my own concert hall.

But a dream becomes a goal once you undertake steps to achieve it.

My goal is to have my own concerthall!

Well shit then.

My goal is to be a billionaire.

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Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

Well shit then.

My goal is to be a billionaire.

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me too. I want to be rich as fuck and live a simple life. Rather than working to death or being homeless and worn out.



also I want to sit in a Jacuzzi all day and get really high. I would be very satisfied with that.

To live in a minimalist house of my own design in BC, or some place in Europe (budget permitting), have a garden and use solar energy, be with my girl in mind, and work as a designer and photographer, and ideally one day as an architect.

To be happy.

Really, truly, deeply happy, and that is all :)

I have a kind of big dream. I doubt that I can achieve it but I would like to think I can.

I want to be a doctor and create a cure for cancer.

To draw for a living. :)

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Originally Posted by tropicalbreeze

to continue to push my body to my maximum potential and explore this beautiful planet.

i just don't want to get to a point in my life where i'm living just to only exist.

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I typed this over 4 years ago and i'm living it. :)