Have you lived your dream??

MooShop

just wondering how many people are doing now, what they dreamed about when they were young??

did you do all things you wanted to do in life, are you in a job you love??

if you could would you change anything, any regrets??

seamus

I'm far too young to have any regrets. There's still nothing stopping me from doing what I want to.

Megatron

I have a few regrets , more over what i have said to a few peeps.

as for living my dream ... well all i ever wanted to be when i was a kid was to be happy ... i'm sort of there.

rugbug86

i have regrets, i think everyone must.

as far as living my dream, i havent made my dream yet, im only 19.

irlirishkev

I'm living the dream baby! Working 9-5 in a really sh*t job with no prospects whatsoever!

Yeah!!!

nadir

thats the spirit, work the system.

I dont know if i ever had a dream myself, I guess Ill get back to you on that one in a decade or so

Gilgamesh

have no regrets to be honest, allways look at the past as if it wouldn't have happend how it did, then I owuldn't be happy now.

TerrorFirmer

I'm not a Jedi yet....

Feenikusu

I'm too young to live my dream, I'll have to wait more than 10 years until I can. That sucks.

pwd

i live in a dream. Does that count?

MooShop

MobileInfantry wrote:

I'm not a Jedi yet....

not yet but maybe some day......

MooShop

Feenikusu wrote:

I'm too young to live my dream, I'll have to wait more than 10 years until I can. That sucks.

dare i ask what your dream is???

Blisterman

Im in college for my dream, so Im happy.

The Sweeper

I have no regrets.

Everything that has happened to me has shaped the person I am, and I like who I am.

I'm hardly living the dream, but then again, I haven't seen a 'help wanted' that required someone to teach Alsations to do circus tricks in a martian landscape.

I'm certainly living a dream.

People will always make demands on you for their time, their thoughts, their dreams, their hopes, their wishes.

F*ck them. The main person who looks after you, is you. If you're lucky enough to find someone whose own sense of self preservation runs parallel to yours, then congratulations, you've found a friend/lover/partner in crime.

As it stands, if you're not living your childhood dream, you should at least be doing something that gets you closer to where you want to be now.

Imagine football with no goal nets. Rubgy with no goalposts, Snooker with no pockets, basketball with no hoop, bowling with no skittles.

Can't picture it? Seem pointless? No fun?


...then why the hell would you do the same thing with your life?

Feenikusu

MooShop wrote:

dare i ask what your dream is???

Leave the country (and best move to Ireland).
And for that I will need to finish school (only 3 more years to go :rolleyes: ) and study and get some work experience.

Fudger

Yes, i always dreamed of sitting at a desk working my ass off with a load of people around me who hound me to do things and 'the MAN' on my case all the time taking my hard earned money off me. Paying my bills, loans and whatever is left pishing away to a fat cat publician till everything goes blurred and it all starts again on the following monday...... till the weeks mangle into one long long long day...........

Live your dreams kids or else take lots of drugs and wing it as best you can.

The Saint

Science hasn't figured out a way to turn me into a dormoouse so I can copulate at a constant rate.

So....no.

pwd

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

I have no regrets.

Everything that has happened to me has shaped the person I am, and I like who I am.

I'm hardly living the dream, but then again, I haven't seen a 'help wanted' that required someone to teach Alsations to do circus tricks in a martian landscape.

I'm certainly living a dream.

People will always make demands on you for their time, their thoughts, their dreams, their hopes, their wishes.

F*ck them. The main person who looks after you, is you. If you're lucky enough to find someone whose own sense of self preservation runs parallel to yours, then congratulations, you've found a friend/lover/partner in crime.

As it stands, if you're not living your childhood dream, you should at least be doing something that gets you closer to where you want to be now.

Imagine football with no goal nets. Rubgy with no goalposts, Snooker with no pockets, basketball with no hoop, bowling with no skittles.

Can't picture it? Seem pointless? No fun?


...then why the hell would you do the same thing with your life?

that's a nice analogy.
I am impressed with analogical skills.

the thing about going after your dreams is that when you fail you feel like poo.
at least in a soccer game with no goal nets you can't get hammered 9-0.
though staking everything and failing utterly has the advantage of leaving you totally free of influence and commitment.

jinxycat

lol my dream as a kid was to live on a farm and own a yellow porsche, heh like that's ever going to happen always got slagged over it, imagine a porsche on a farm, wouldn't go down to well, the dirt it'd collect

FranknFurter

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure,
Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh,...
Erotic nightmares beyond any measure,
And sensual daydreams to treasure forever...
Can't you just see it. Whoa ho ho!
Don't dream it, be it.......
Don't dream it, be it.........

(see, the answers to all of lifes questions can be found in R.H.P.S.)! lol

stagolee

regrets ive had a ****load..
but im not dead yet, so things could still work out peachy
and for all the incredibly stupid things ive done and worse the things ive stupidly not done, ive been really lucky to have friends, health, family and all the other stuff that makes life easy

Paddy20

I followed my dream and achieved it. Only problem was I discovered it did not really make me happy.

So, I threw it all away, and ended up back where I started from, a lot older and wiser, happier and totally content.

I found just being the real me was all I needed. :cool:

Naos

Its better to regret the things you have done, than to regret the things you havent done.

Everyone has regrets, just gotta figure out are you looking at them in the right light or not.

monkeyfudge

I had a dream I ate my pillow and when I woke up my giant marshmallow was gone...


Actually I wanted to be a private detective when I was a kid. I don't think I'm burnt out enough yet though.. but I'm getting there.

stuey

Mear wrote:

Its better to regret the things you have done, than to regret the things you havent done.

I agree,
But i think the harest thing to do on this planet is to live with regrets. It is the "what if"s that control some many peoples lives and prevent them from moving forward.

so live your dreams. don't regret. cause it is the hardest thing to live with

Tom Dunne

I have a firm philosophy of no regrets. I have decided that what ever I did, what decisions I made, were the right thing to do at the time. I have also decided that in life, you control your own destiny. If you sit around moping about your situation, you will get nowhere. You need a plan.

Today, I am tantalisingly close to living my dream. I have spent the last 5 years planning, hopefully over the summer my dream will come true.

Sidane

Seeing Man United win the European Cup and actually being in the Nou Camp when it happened was certainly one of my dreams coming true (I'm a football nut before anybody disses my dreams!).

As for the rest, I'll let you know....

StupidLikeAFox

i only have one regret, anything else pales in insignificance when i think about it.

Im still young, i love my life atm, its all gravy baby

snorlax

i am living my dream. im doing the course i want in college. have some really good friends there and a good supportive family!
my only regret is that i couldnt study all the subjects i study now (and enjoy) in school and had to study all that awful stair na gaelige/ filiocht/ maths equations!

Sarky

I'm still alive after 23 years. It's a start, I suppose. No real regrets, no amazing achievements, some friends, maybe an enemy or two...

Meh.

LadyJ

It's no Vanilla Sky!

kirn

my dreams change fairly drastically - i wanted to be a fulltime barman when i wasin my teens.. did it for a while and now i hate it and have quit.
always wanted to be a sprinter - a fast runner - tried and tried, just don't have it. its ok though, i don't mind.

right now - i work in a radio station, its great fun, and lots of people THINK it should be my dream job, but its not. its good - but its just not.

i dunno.
being happy in life means different things as you get older and more mature...

snorlax

well if you enjoy what your doing. id say enjoying you job would depend a lot on your co-workers/ boss awell, they could probably make an easy job miserable!

funny, most people in college all they want is to be is to be appreciated by the opposite sex and those that have gfs/bfs are considered to"be happy/ sorted". but then that's only a small part of you life, i guess it means more to people when they'r young to have that area of their life sussed. it always interesting to see what a more mature person proritises in their life.

Larianne

No regrets, everything that has happened to me has made me the person I am today. I'm on my way to living a bit of my dream..but I have quite a few so it will take time.

amp

My childhood dream was to be normal. I've since realised that normal, while nice and safe, is incredibly boring.

My life is progressing exactly to plan. I don't know what the plan is, as it's controlled by my subconcious and it isn't telling, but my subconcious is a lot more intelligent than I am, so I'll take it's word for it.

Regrets? Yeah of course I do, everybody does, but I think we only evolve when we make mistakes.

Tar.Aldarion

regrets = girls sigh......but only 18 yet like...

arbeitsscheuer

MooShop wrote:

just wondering how many people are doing now, what they dreamed about when they were young??

did you do all things you wanted to do in life, are you in a job you love??

if you could would you change anything, any regrets??

I'm sorry about how whingey, self-pitying and moany this reply is gonna be but... I'm remarkably depressed right now, and this thread's open-ended question offers me the opportunity to exorcise some demons - so forgive me for indulging myself.

In short, No, I'm not living the dream. (Wow. Bet you didn't see THAT coming :rolleyes: ). Whenever I look at photos of myself when I was younger I just feel unbearably sad. I look at a person whose face contained so many hopes and dreams, such innocence, a lust for life and a get-up-and-go attitude towards working to accomplish his dreams, and I just think; what the f**k happened? I want to apologise over and over to this person:
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry I f**ked everything up - You could have been anyone, anything, all your dreams could've have become reality... And I screwed up. I've blamed a multitude of other factors - bullies, school, my parents, my so-called mates, etc - but I have to take responsibility. I f**ked everything up." In Nick Horndy's High Fidelity his main character has a similar reaction to old photos of himself, and the same regrets.

I have accomplished almost nothing I wanted to do.
But worse, far worse than all this, I have become a person I never wanted to be. A person my younger self would detest, and rightly so.

But it's not too late... Surely. No, I can still do some of it. I will work my damnedest to make myself into the kind of man that the kid in the photos would be proud of. F**k it, why the f**k am I wasting my life writing sh*t on boards?! I should be out there working to make some of that kid's dreams come true! Ok... Well, it's ten to one in the morning so that explains that but still...

Thanks for reading this pompous and self-serving drivel.



P.S. I've a history of depression that is almost manic depressive, hence the sharp swing between suicidal and positivity that occured there... Sorry bout that.

Dimitri

livin the dream-eh no
regrets-yes
so many things i'd love to change, i can't though so i aint gonna think about it, just live and learn i guess..