Living the dream

travelledpengy

I see a lot of my friends who have emigrated saying that they 'are living the dream'

Are you living your dream?

What is your 'dream'?

Sindri

My dream is a delusional lucid state I enter.

I am trying to live it but I just can't cram that big a thing up there.

Jesus Wept

To go to a far away land and play GAA, frequent Irish bars and lust after Tayto, Brennan's and Lyon's like the others who are living the dream.

NakedNNettles

2 up ^^^Sounds like a sterotypical irish lad living the dream of the sh*te heard in the irish media.

Currently living the dream in Asia, loving it here, cheap, interesting culture, healthy tasty food, cute asian girls.

I recommend it.

cson

Instantly thought of this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwx26h7Vu8M

Just living the dream.

im invisible

And i find it kinda funny
i find it kinda sad
the dreams in which i'm dying
are the best i've ever had

smash

Sadly I'm not banging Mila Kunis yet so no, no I'm not living the dream!

Sky King

My dream is to re-boot the 80's but with better explosions and Jar Jar Binks.

Some day....

*Sigh

Fromthetrees

I ate 4 microwaved sausages an hour ago,
sky sports news is on in the background,
I will be drunk by about 1,
and twisted by 3,
that is living the dream.

biko

travelledpengy wrote: »

Are you living your dream?

Yup

travelledpengy wrote: »

What is your 'dream'?

Life

Red_Wake

Fromthetrees wrote: »

I ate 4 microwaved sausages an hour ago,
sky sports news is on in the background,
I will be drunk by about 1,
and twisted by 3,
that is living the dream.

I'm guessing you're a teacher?

swimming in a sea

The-Rigger wrote: »

To go to a far away land and play GAA, frequent Irish bars and lust after Tayto, Brennan's and Lyon's like the others who are living the dream.

i hate bogball, tayto crisps and foreign irish bars, brennans bread is the same as any other bread, not sure what lyons is,

more to life than eating crap food,

I Heart Internet

Interesting question OP...................maybe I'm over thinking it though....

What do I dream of doing? Is the life I'm living now the life I dreamt of 10 years ago??

Well I'm married to a beautiful woman, live in a nice house by the sea, have great relationships with all my family, have a few good friends, I'm more or less healthy, I have a good job in the area I wanted to be in when I left college.

OK - so I drive a bit too much for work, could do with some more cash (but who couldn't?), errrmmmm.......that's more or less the downside. Made one or two bad decisions in getting here but all well now.

Yes - I'm living the dream. But I do dream of a future where I don't have to work....just saying.

foxyboxer

Living the dream is about being free. Answering to no one.

Many of us don't choose to work we simply have to.

Personally my dream is to reach an age where any passive income from investments or what not covers my living expenses.

I would then plan on working the months from September to the end of March at something I'm truly interested in.

From April to August, it's time off to play golf everyday and keep fit and active, read more, quality time with family etc etc.

Just like a regular 'school' year.

stovelid

I hate that phrase. It puts me in mind of a bunch of culchie engineering students high-fiving each other in Coppers because of some minor achievement like a round of shots arriving or some munter looking over.

Pissmire

NakedNNettles wrote: »

Currently living the dream in Asia, loving it here, cheap, interesting culture, healthy tasty food, cute asian girls.

Hope that'll be me one day, if I can sell up here.

BillyMitchel

In some ways I am.

Living in Asia, working 4 and half hours a day, answer to know one, have the money to do what I want when I want, beautiful girlfriend and good friends here.

I'm going to be woken up pretty soon though and brought back to the nightmare that is Dublin. Oh well it was good while it lasted..

judgefudge

I love my job, I love my friends, I love my family and I love Ireland. I may not be loaded but I'm certainly living my dream!

BraziliaNZ

The-Rigger wrote: »

To go to a far away land and play GAA, frequent Irish bars and lust after Tayto, Brennan's and Lyon's like the others who are living the dream.

Yawn. What is so wrong with wanting to play your home sport when you're abroad? You'll find Aussies in London play AFL, Canadians lay hockey abroad, etc.
Do you berate the Chinese peope on Parnell St for eating their own food or bask in the glorious multikulti of it all?
My Ma brought me over a load of Kearns sausages and White Pudding lately, I'm so ashamed

ChippingSodbury

Too true. Why is it things aren't "cool" unless they feature on Home and Away or spoken with an american accent?
And as for the poster who doesn't know what "lyons" is: it's tea, but of course that's not cool because Starbucks don't sell it...

swimming in a sea

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

Too true. Why is it things aren't "cool" unless they feature on Home and Away or spoken with an american accent?
And as for the poster who doesn't know what "lyons" is: it's tea, but of course that's not cool because Starbucks don't sell it...

sorry didn't know lyons as never drink tea or as it happens coffee, never been in starbucks.......

Underdraft

In my dreams I'm a cloud of pure energy that doesn't age or consist of meat, bone, tissue, fluids and various internal organs. So, no.

ChippingSodbury

I'll let you off just this once then...

P.S. I'd take Barrys over Lyons any day

Noffles

I dream of being able to sell my house and move from here... I'll probably get 50% of that... the 'albatross around your neck' of owning a house in rural Ireland.

WoollyRedHat

When I was a child, I always thought the idea of a remote, paradise island where you could live in freedom was pretty cool, ala Lord of the Flies.. but of course that would want to involve me not being fat, having glasses and being called Piggy

giant_midget

The-Rigger wrote: »

To go to a far away land and play GAA, frequent Irish bars and lust after Tayto, Brennan's and Lyon's like the others who are living the dream.

Couldn't have put that much better myself. This is what Irish do when they emigrate saying that they 'are living the dream' this dream is usually a 12 month working holiday visa.

Not to worry OP your friends will be back in a year saying how much better Oz/Nz/Us/Ca is than Ireland.

Jen Pigs Fly

I just want to be happy and keep horses

Voodoomelon

My take on "living the dream", ie working in Australia or the likes is that so many people make the journey, effort and financial commitment to go so far away, that they'd look like tools if they were living anything less than "the dream".

Same goes for folks who go on 1-2 month travelling stints and come back saying it was life changing, yet proceed to live their lives exactly the same. Everyone is conditioned to say everything is brilliant, once a certain amount of effort is put in for said journey/career choice, regardless of whether it was shít or not.

I for one was in America in 2008 and travelled around 5 cities in 3 weeks and was absolutely wrecked because we did it wrong and have to say I didn't fully enjoy myself and admitted as much. Would love to go back though and do it properly. But it annoys me that every single person that goes abroad comes back and says it was incredible. Despite some folks coming back from Australia after 2-3 months.

Brain Stroking

Voodoomelon wrote: »

My take on "living the dream", ie working in Australia or the likes is that so many people make the journey, effort and financial commitment to go so far away, that they'd look like tools if they were living anything less than "the dream".

Same goes for folks who go on 1-2 month travelling stints and come back saying it was life changing, yet proceed to live their lives exactly the same. Everyone is conditioned to say everything is brilliant, once a certain amount of effort is put in for said journey/career choice, regardless of whether it was shít or not.

I for one was in America in 2008 and travelled around 5 cities in 3 weeks and was absolutely wrecked because we did it wrong and have to say I didn't fully enjoy myself and admitted as much. Would love to go back though and do it properly. But it annoys me that every single person that goes abroad comes back and says it was incredible. Despite some folks coming back from Australia after 2-3 months.

Agreed. However, my mate is over in Australia and is coming home in April as he absolutely detests the place and the people there. A few of my friends who have been over there have said that.

Also, anyone that says things like "I'm living the dream" need to be slapped around the head.

mandrake04

giant_midget wrote: »

Couldn't have put that much better myself. This is what Irish do when they emigrate saying that they 'are living the dream' this dream is usually a 12 month working holiday visa.

Not to worry OP your friends will be back in a year saying how much better Oz/Nz/Us/Ca is than Ireland.

I think most are just dreaming rather than living the dream, sitting around in the Cock' n' Bull drinking pints and tossing each other off under the table saying they have emigrated when in fact they are only on a working holiday visa.... and will be back home in a year.

But to be fair it all depends on your personal circumstances and what cards the hand of fate has dealt as to living the 'dream', it would be wrong to say that nobody is living what would be better described as a better lifestyle based on opinions of others who are maybe not so fortunate.

boobar

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Interesting question OP...................maybe I'm over thinking it though....

What do I dream of doing? Is the life I'm living now the life I dreamt of 10 years ago??

Well I'm married to a beautiful woman, live in a nice house by the sea, have great relationships with all my family, have a few good friends, I'm more or less healthy, I have a good job in the area I wanted to be in when I left college.

OK - so I drive a bit too much for work, could do with some more cash (but who couldn't?), errrmmmm.......that's more or less the downside. Made one or two bad decisions in getting here but all well now.

Yes - I'm living the dream. But I do dream of a future where I don't have to work....just saying.

Sounds too good to be true....you're not called Truman by any chance?

BornToKill

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

InTheTrees

There's been times I've been stuck in traffic, top down, smell of the beach and heat in the air and I've thought to myself "what the fcuk are you doing here???"

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=34.021642,-118.508446&spn=0.001879,0.002612&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=34.021572,-118.508362&panoid=wYixHfXIxyMPmMQVLU1I4A&cbp=12,128.51,,0,-11.92

KeithAFC

The-Rigger wrote: »

To go to a far away land and play GAA, frequent Irish bars and lust after Tayto, Brennan's and Lyon's like the others who are living the dream.

Sounds like a nightmare.:pac:

af_thefragile

I'ld love to go racing in the Volvo Ocean Race...

Wattle

I'd be living somewhere that's sunny all year round. My name would be Julio or something. I'd be ridiculously good looking, independently wealthy and I'd have loads and loads of beautiful women fighting over me and I wouldnt give a **** about anything. The End.

travelledpengy

I prefer a more seasonal climate! Like having the good weather to look forward to come the summer time.

Can't complain about a bit of skiing in the winter!

dave3004

I'm in my mid-twenties, have no mortgage, no responsibilities, got a well-paid job in a bank and living in a plush apartment with my mate next to the city centre of Melbourne.

Have travelled plenty and done a lot of the things I said I wanted to.

Living the dream for the mo but soon I will have to grow up and give it up, find a girl and settle down - Not just yet though :P

Immaculate Pasta

dave3004 wrote: »

I'm in my mid-twenties, have no mortgage, no responsibilities, got a well-paid job in a bank and living in a plush apartment with my mate next to the city centre of Melbourne.

Have travelled plenty and done a lot of the things I said I wanted to.

Living the dream for the mo but soon I will have to grow up and give it up, find a girl and settle down - Not just yet though :P

It's not time to make a change. Just sit down, take it slowly because you're still young, that's your fault. There's so much you have to go through but by all means find a girl, settle down, if you want you can marry. Look at me, I am old, but I'm happy.

I was once like you are now and I know that it's not easy. Such as being calm when you've found something going on but make sure you take your time, think a lot, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not

All those times that I've cried, keeping all the things I knew inside. It's hard, but it's harder to ignore it. If they were right I'd agree but it's them they know, not me. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away, I know I have to go. G'luck :cool:

swimming in a sea

dave3004 wrote: »

I'm in my mid-twenties, have no mortgage, no responsibilities, got a well-paid job in a bank and living in a plush apartment with my mate next to the city centre of Melbourne.

Have travelled plenty and done a lot of the things I said I wanted to.

Living the dream for the mo but soon I will have to grow up and give it up, find a girl and settle down - Not just yet though :P

unless finding a girl and settling down makes you even happier, why would you?

i have a girl but she makes me happier than when i didn't, and if she starts making me unhappy she'll get the boot, simples

Susan Lanigan

What Then?


His chosen comrades thought at school
He must grow a famous man;
He thought the same and lived by rule,
All his twenties crammed with toil;
'What then?' sang Plato's ghost. 'What then?'

Everything he wrote was read,
After certain years he won
Sufficient money for his need,
Friends that have been friends indeed;
'What then?' sang Plato's ghost. ' What then?'

All his happier dreams came true --
A small old house, wife, daughter, son,
Grounds where plum and cabbage grew,
poets and Wits about him drew;
'What then.?' sang Plato's ghost. 'What then?'

The work is done,' grown old he thought,
'According to my boyish plan;
Let the fools rage, I swerved in naught,
Something to perfection brought';
But louder sang that ghost, 'What then?'


William Butler Yeats

ducie

Are you gonna sit in some poxy office with a c**t for a boss telling you what to do as you count your pennies trying to make ends meet in a country that is sinking and at the end of the day you go home to your cosy little flat in 'nowheresville' and pull your IKEA curtains shut to hide from the big bad world and pretend that it's not happening? Or are you gonna stand up and be counted, make a difference and feel the rush? Just for once say "**** it". I'm coiled up like a spring and I am ready to burst and w*nk*ng just ain't doing it anymore. I need something to make me feel like I'm still alive. I know what I would rather do....

Adamantium

ducie wrote: »

Are you gonna sit in some poxy office with a c**t for a boss telling you what to do as you count your pennies trying to make ends meet in a country that is sinking and at the end of the day you go home to your cosy little flat in 'nowheresville' and pull your IKEA curtains shut to hide from the big bad world and pretend that it's not happening? Or are you gonna stand up and be counted, make a difference and feel the rush? Just for once say "**** it". I'm coiled up like a spring and I am ready to burst and w*nk*ng just ain't doing it anymore. I need something to make me feel like I'm still alive. I know what I would rather do....

Have you met Tyler Durden?

giant_midget

ducie wrote: »

Are you gonna sit in some poxy office with a c**t for a boss telling you what to do as you count your pennies trying to make ends meet in a country that is sinking and at the end of the day you go home to your cosy little flat in 'nowheresville' and pull your IKEA curtains shut to hide from the big bad world and pretend that it's not happening? Or are you gonna stand up and be counted, make a difference and feel the rush? Just for once say "**** it". I'm coiled up like a spring and I am ready to burst and w*nk*ng just ain't doing it anymore. I need something to make me feel like I'm still alive. I know what I would rather do....

Speak for yourself with your penny counting & Ikea curtains & small flat pal. Not all of us have failed in life like you seem to have. It's very obvious by your angry post that you are in dire need of a ride, Go out and get yourself some vag.

pinkywoo

Im not yet living the dream, but enjoying where my life is currently at this moment. You always get the good and the bad and the bad makes you appreciate.

I have no real responabilites at the moment as I am a student,so I just need to worry about getting good grades.

But living the dream for me would be to find a job I love, make enough money to get me along and meet someone who makes me happy and takes me for the good and the bad.

ducie

giant_midget wrote: »

Speak for yourself with your penny counting & Ikea curtains & small flat pal. Not all of us have failed in life like you seem to have. It's very obvious by your angry post that you are in dire need of a ride, Go out and get yourself some vag.

Its not my life its my friends, his name is Tommy Johnson. PAL

Spread

BillyMitchel wrote: »

In some ways I am.

Living in Asia, working 4 and half hours a day, answer to know one, have the money to do what I want when I want, beautiful girlfriend and good friends here.

I'm going to be woken up pretty soon though and brought back to the nightmare that is Dublin. Oh well it was good while it lasted..

The secret is never to wake up

Jeez! A lot of the negative posters should add some Special K to their Corn Flakes and throw the Prozac or mama's little helpers down the pan.
It almost makes depressing reading. Now am going to have another steaming mug of Lyons

Bad Panda

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Yawn. What is so wrong with wanting to play your home sport when you're abroad? You'll find Aussies in London play AFL, Canadians lay hockey abroad, etc.
Do you berate the Chinese peope on Parnell St for eating their own food or bask in the glorious multikulti of it all?
My Ma brought me over a load of Kearns sausages and White Pudding lately, I'm so ashamed

I think part of the point is that a lot of people don't care for these things when they're at home, yet put a paddy (some) in a foreign land and all of a sudden they're 'Oirish and proud' and telling stories of the fabulous white pudding and 'chips' we have back home....

Bad Panda

giant_midget wrote: »

Speak for yourself with your penny counting & Ikea curtains & small flat pal. Not all of us have failed in life like you seem to have. It's very obvious by your angry post that you are in dire need of a ride, Go out and get yourself some vag.

He seems to have touched a nerve. You're fooling no one.

foxyboxer

The question is if you were guaranteed a monthly salary of, say, the average industrial wage.

How would you fill your days?

Would you still go to work because you may have friends there and enjoy it?

However you spent your time without the constriction of 'having to go to work' would be considered living the dream IMO.

BraziliaNZ

Bad Panda wrote: »

I think part of the point is that a lot of people don't care for these things when they're at home, yet put a paddy (some) in a foreign land and all of a sudden they're 'Oirish and proud' and telling stories of the fabulous white pudding and 'chips' we have back home....

I've never encountered that. Anyway who gives a f**k? I don't understand why the self-loathing comes in so much when people talk about Irish abroad.