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  • #32
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    the keen edge wrote: »
    I'am always inspired, and to be honest jealous, of people who have the energy, confidence, balls or call it whatever, to go out in life and follow their dreams.
    From time to time I feel like I never gave things my best shot, or chased my own dreams. Hopefully, at aged 32, I still have time to reach for the stars!

    If it makes you feel any better, I know someone who is 70+ who is doing his PHD.
    Most dreams are still achievable so long as you are not dead or enfeebled.

    That said - not all dreams are achievable.

    Every choice closes a door, every dream you pursue means that another ten must be forsaken; that is the price of living life.
    You will never read every book, see every movie, love every woman, see every land that you wish you could, and sometimes people fall between two stools, refusing to chase a dream because they want to wait for the opportunities to do others as well, and then never do any of them.

    Choose the dream that is the most important, as well as achievable, research it well, then go for it.


  • #33
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    I have no 'dreams' that i wish to achieve. I just live day to day.

    It amuses me that there are people who have 'lists' of things they wish to do in their lives. Setting yourself up for disappointment.

    Stop looking for what's over the next horizon and just get on with your life.

    That's a great plan if you want to wake up on your fiftieth birthday and start crying.

    You can lose a lot of time by doing nothing.


  • #34
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    If you can spare a couple of minutes give a listen to John O'Donohue on the subject of the death bed, maybe it might give you that push you need to go and live your dreams, it certainly left an impression on me.




  • #35
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    My dream is pretty simple. To stand up for what I believe in always, to play an important part in furthering those beliefs, to always try to do the right thing, and to leave this world a better place when I leave it. As for how exactly I intend to do that, that is up for negotiation, and seeing where life takes me.

    I don't think my dream is my own per sé, but there is another author behind it, much yet to be revealed.


  • #36
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    I want to make some sort of scientific contribution/discovery/development which will result in real, concrete improvements in the field of medicine and medical science.


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  • #37
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Jakkass wrote: »
    I don't think my dream is my own per sé, but there is another author behind it, much yet to be revealed.

    What do you mean?


  • #38
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Links234 wrote: »
    What do you mean?

    This is what I mean. Not to take the thread completely off-topic that is.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    the keen edge wrote: »
    If you can spare a couple of minutes give a listen to John O'Donohue on the subject of the death bed, maybe it might give you that push you need to go and live your dreams, it certainly left an impression on me.



    Takes a while but he finishes on such a strong message... Where did ya come across that video?


  • #40
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Jakkass wrote: »
    This is what I mean. Not to take the thread completely off-topic that is.

    Oh I see. I try not to talk about religion anyway, me and god aren't on the best of terms, so lets leave it.


  • #41
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    I had a dream that I could star in a porno AND play senior county hurling for Wexford.


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  • #42
    Thomas828
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Thomas828


    I'm not interested in dreams. I want to live in the real world and make the best of my life in it. I'm not going to waste my life hankering after things I'll probably never have. I'm too busy with the things I've got already.


  • #43
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Why can't your dream be something achieveable? I always had attainable goals that were large, but not impossible, and I've achieved all of them to date, so I just keep setting myself bigger and better goals.


  • #44
    DeVore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Someone once told me that life wasnt measured by the number of breaths you take but by the number taken away.

    I've pretty much lived that since then.

    Saying you dont want to try because you might be disappointed is a cowardly way to live. I've gone bankrupt in my time and you know what.... its actually not all that terrible. I've smashed my body up big style and it hurt like nothing you can imagine but it got better and I found out things about myself in doing it. So, while I dont recommend it, its nothing to be worried about. So what if you "fail".... provided you arent taking risks which will impact others (like wife/kids) then dont be afraid of failing.

    DeV.


  • #45
    DeVore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    2004 the company I started and was CEO of closed its doors. I wrote this:
    Will Code For Food

    DeV.


  • #46
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    DeVore wrote: »
    Saying you dont want to try because you might be disappointed is a cowardly way to live.
    I wouldn't advocate that at all, but I would say, if there are certain major things you wish to achieve and there is no guarantee you'll achieve them, have a plan B. Go for it and be positive and do your best, believe in yourself etc, and you'll be in with a good shot, but there is the possibility it might not work out.


  • #47
    Havermeyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    Dreams are like rainbows.

    Only idiots chase them.


  • #48
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    nummnutts wrote: »
    Dreams are like rainbows.

    Only idiots chase them.

    That's stupid.


  • #49
    Jaden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,394 ✭✭✭Jaden


    I fell sorry for anyone who thinks chasing a dream is pointless.

    What I wanted 10 years ago is allot different to what I want now. Still, my list is/was.

    Have a son.
    Own/Ride a motorbike.
    Get a Tattoo.
    Win a big poker tourney


    I'm halfway there.....
    Which is a nice way of saying I'm half done. :)


  • #50
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Takes a while but he finishes on such a strong message... Where did ya come across that video?

    John O'Donohue and his stories, were suggested reading for helping to conquering fear on a public speaking course I attended.


  • #51
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Links234 wrote: »
    My dream? Gender transition of course!! :)
    I spent too long being depressed and feeling bad about myself, thinking "if only" and wishing. This year I've decided to stop living a lie and start on the long, hard journey to making that dream a reality.

    Also, I want to find a new dream. As much as I want it more than anything else in the world, I'm not going to be naive enough to think that a vagina is going to make life wonderful and I'll be happy until I die. One of the best things I've read someone say about gender transition is from Madeline Wyndzen: "Perhaps the answer is that transitioning does not make me happy. Transitioning is what makes it possible for me to find happiness. And I'm still searching and I'm still growing."
    So I want to make my dream come true and then set out to find new dreams, new goals, and new happiness that I could never have before.

    Well done, that takes some real balls.


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  • #52
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Esther Huge Reimbursement wrote: »
    Well done, that takes some real balls.

    No fannying about there....


  • #53
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Esther Huge Reimbursement wrote: »
    Well done, that takes some real balls.

    I see what you did there. :rolleyes:


  • #54
    Chairman Meow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    I seized the day, by the throat, yesterday, and it paid off exceptionally.

    :cool:


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