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How do you approach life. Do you feel you are destined to be more than you are now?

  • 03-03-2011 12:55am
    #1
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭


    Or have you no ambition? Does life represent a trial to be endured or a challenge to excel? Do setbacks delay you or KO you?

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



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  • #2
    Khyra24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Khyra24


    This feels like I'm being interviewed for a job...

    But yes! I'm ambitious and I want to excel in life. Setbacks do bring me down a bit but then I get right back up on my feet and try harder next time.

    If there is a next time...

    I want to hit the lottery. :D


  • #3
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    My philosophy is that if you never attempt anything, you will never fail. I do think im destined for great things but if i try and fail, i will have nothing left, not even dreams.










    Thats my deep and meaningful post of 2011 :D Its also the reason why i hate socialism. You cant dream under socialism :mad:


  • #4
    Gastric Bland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Gastric Bland


    why so seri0us man, life goes on.


  • #5
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Gastric Bland wrote: »
    why so seri0us man, life goes on.

    Living up to your name there, good first post.


  • #6
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    Khyra24 wrote: »
    This feels like I'm being interviewed for a job...

    But yes! I'm ambitious and I want to excel in life. Setbacks do bring me down a bit but then I get right back up on my feet and try harder next time.

    If there is a next time...

    I want to hit the lottery. :D

    But imagine there's no next time(Lennon is rolling I know:D)

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



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  • #7
    Gastric Bland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Gastric Bland


    Badgermonkey wrote: »
    Living up to your name there, good first post.

    I'm just warming up, badgermonkey. dxtjcmk,lybliunniuiu86899, o.k. you
    prick.


  • #8
    Badgermonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Gastric Bland wrote: »
    I'm just warming up, badgermonkey. dxtjcmk,lybliunniuiu86899, o.k. you
    prick.

    Good comeback, mild brain bleed whilst typing that?

    fat-man-at-computer.jpg


  • #9
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    I'm lying in bed in my underpants, laptop on my lap, crumbs in the bed from the snacks I was just eating, looking at silly pictures on the internet.

    I bloody well hope I'm destined for more than I am now.


  • #10
    Khyra24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Khyra24


    stevejr wrote: »
    But imagine there's no next time(Lennon is rolling I know:D)

    If there's no next time then I'm afraid I'd have to agree with Pauleta's philosophy. lol :D


  • #11
    Little Acorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Little Acorn


    Bucket loads of ambition, but am guilty from time to time of slipping out of motivation for the hard work part that needs to be done to meet those ambitions. Great for a few months, might slack abit for maybe 1-2 months then I get back on track again.
    I don't feel I'm destined to be anything, I think I will only achieve what I want through many years of hard work.
    I don't think life is a trial to just be endured, I would be more in favor of your other option that it is a challenge to excel in.
    I am very very ambitious. Some might say too ambitious, or even perhaps unrealistic, but I would find life very boring if I ever think of just settling for 'ok'.
    I don't just want to 'like' my life.I want a job I love, I want a home that I love. I also want to travel more.
    I am only starting out on the first year of the path for these things, but I believe that I can achieve all these things.

    Setbacks? Many, many, many setbacks have always and continue to get thrown at me. I've grown so accustomed to them by this stage, that I barely let them phase me anymore!:pac:
    In my mind there are a huge number of people who are much worse off and have it harder than me, so instead of dwelling on things I try to just acknowledge them, have a cry, get over them as quickly as possible.:)


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  • #12
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Pauleta wrote: »
    My philosophy is that if you never attempt anything, you will never fail. I do think im destined for great things but if i try and fail, i will have nothing left, not even dreams.

    Thats my deep and meaningful post of 2011 :D Its also the reason why i hate socialism. You cant dream under socialism :mad:


    For someone who hates socialism, your philosophy is very socialist - Do fcukall, lose fcukall


  • #13
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    newmug wrote: »
    For someone who hates socialism, your philosophy is very socialist - Do fcukall, lose fcukall

    Very true. Maybe im just hoping the capitalist system sweeps me away and rewards my greatness. Under socialism i just get what im given and thats it, nothing else to achieve. I just want to overcome my fear of failure.






    This is starting to turn into the personal issues forum :D


  • #14
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    whats the point of the question?


  • #15
    Little Acorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Little Acorn


    And why not give us an answer yourself Stevejr.:)


  • #16
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    Little Acorn wrote: »
    And why not give us an answer yourself Stevejr.:)

    Only Questions find answers, hence my Op. I have no answers only questions...a wise philosophy...young grasshopper:D

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • #17
    deathrider
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    I have high hopes. Only a matter of time now, before I get bitten by a radioactive spider and become a superhero.


  • #18
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    whats the point of the question?

    My Question is in the Kumate do you see yourself as Van Damme's character?

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • #19
    Little Acorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,531 ✭✭✭Little Acorn


    stevejr wrote: »
    Only Questions find answers, hence my Op. I have no answers only questions...a wise philosophy...young grasshopper:D

    I'm going to use this if I ever get into bother over something in the future. "I have no answers Garda just questions." :p


  • #20
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    stevejr wrote: »
    My Question is in the Kumate do you see yourself as Van Damme's character?
    I see myself as the eagle from the training montage at the temple


  • #21
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    Little Acorn wrote: »
    I'm going to use this if I ever get into bother over something in the future. "I have no answers Garda just questions." :p

    Don't call them grasshopper or they'll get confused and do you for Marijuana possession.

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



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  • #22
    stevejr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    I see myself as the eagle from the training montage at the temple

    Ah,the student becomes the teacher. Forgot about that part!

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • #23
    Wolfe Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,670 ✭✭✭✭Wolfe Tone


    Personally I alternate between periods of abject listlessness where I just trudge along, and periods where I believe I can literally do anything, and have the motivation to do so.

    Am I ambitious? Often I am, mostly not. My ambition right now for say 10 years would be a nice wife, a nice house, some kids and just the right amount of money to get by. Job wise? Something I don't loath. I would be happy enough with that.

    However other times I have higher ambitions, the thing is academically I am sure I can achieve pretty much anything if I put the work in, but what would be the point? More money? Doesnt really interest me tbh. Im studying law atm so hopefully I will be able to make a positive contribution at the end of the day. Sure I sometime want the big house, big cars etc etc but you can have all of them and be miserable
    Do setbacks delay you or KO you?
    I can honestly say that anything I have ever believed was a setback has worked out perfectly, Im a lucky bastard, things just fall into place for me.


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