Living the dream

travelledpengy · 30-01-2012 07:06AM #1

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 · 30-01-2012 07:08AM

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 · 30-01-2012 07:09AM

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 · 30-01-2012 10:48AM

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 · 30-01-2012 10:51AM

Instantly thought of this...

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

Just living the dream.

im invisible · 30-01-2012 10:55AM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:02AM

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

Sky King · 30-01-2012 11:04AM

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

Some day....

*Sigh

Fromthetrees · 30-01-2012 11:30AM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:31AM

travelledpengy wrote: »

Are you living your dream?

Yup

travelledpengy wrote: »

What is your 'dream'?

Life

Red_Wake · 30-01-2012 11:31AM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:38AM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:48AM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:53AM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:59AM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:59AM

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 · 30-01-2012 12:04PM

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 · 30-01-2012 12:05PM

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 · 30-01-2012 12:06PM

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 · 30-01-2012 12:19PM

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 · 30-01-2012 12:58PM

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 · 30-01-2012 01:01PM

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 · 30-01-2012 01:03PM

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

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

Noffles · 30-01-2012 01:06PM

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 · 30-01-2012 01:17PM

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 · 30-01-2012 01:43PM

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 · 30-01-2012 01:48PM

I just want to be happy and keep horses

Voodoomelon · 30-01-2012 01:50PM

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 · 30-01-2012 03:10PM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:17PM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:26PM

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?

Living the dream

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