Living the dream

BornToKill · 30-01-2012 11:38PM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:51PM

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???"

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KeithAFC · 30-01-2012 11:52PM

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 · 30-01-2012 11:57PM

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

Wattle · 31-01-2012 12:09AM

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 · 31-01-2012 12:14AM

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 · 31-01-2012 12:26AM

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 · 31-01-2012 12:34AM

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 · 31-01-2012 10:59AM

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 · 31-01-2012 04:34PM

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 · 31-01-2012 05:03PM

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 · 31-01-2012 08:07PM

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 · 01-02-2012 10:06AM

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 · 01-02-2012 10:20AM

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 · 01-02-2012 12:25PM

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 · 01-02-2012 02:41PM

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 · 01-02-2012 02:51PM

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 · 01-02-2012 02:52PM

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 · 01-02-2012 02:59PM

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 · 01-02-2012 03:12PM

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.

Bad Panda · 01-02-2012 03:19PM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

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.

I've encountered it far too many times.

I think the reason is, it's a misrepresntation of those (Irish) people and who they actually are - they're different people to the ones that leave the country and not due to any form of cultural enlightment etc, but rather to portray a certain image.

Just my 2c.

BraziliaNZ · 01-02-2012 03:25PM

Bad Panda wrote: »

I've encountered it far too many times.

I think the reason is, it's a misrepresntation of those (Irish) people and who they actually are - they're different people to the ones that leave the country and not due to any form of cultural enlightment etc, but rather to portray a certain image.

Just my 2c.

I'd say you're offended by it or embarassed? I used to think like that, now I prefer to be judged by who I am and not my nationality.
Feel free to list what is culturally enlightening about Australia, which seems to be the hotbed of the people you descrive above?
I spent some time there, nice weather and beaches, not much cultural enlightenment though!

Johnny Foreigner · 04-02-2012 12:47AM

I am 35 years old and yes, I am living the dream.
I live in Ireland, and there is nowhere in the world I would rather be.
There is more to life than an economy, and a recession. I have my health and happiness, and when it comes down to it; that is what really counts.
I worked hard and played hard living in London through the 1990's and 2000's. It was a materialistic, and hedonistic time for me. Money, drugs, violence, travel, sex, and work. My work and play took me to over 20 countries and made me wealthy in the fiscal sense, but it made me no happier or healthier than I am now. When I look back at the lifestyle I have had some would think that was living the dream, but it becomes blurred between fantasy and reality. When I moved from London to Ireland 3 years ago, I was fulfilling a lifetimes ambition; a dream of living in Ireland. There were times when the things we did brought us close to jail, and I remember thinking if I ever get out of this Police cell I will emigrate and quit when I am ahead.
For me living the dream is having your freedom. Ones liberty is the most precious thing in the world. I would trade all the pretty girls and fast cars I have had for my liberty. When I look back on the things I have done, and got away with it seems surreal, I thought I was living the dream then. But the reality is that I am living the dream now that I have left that life behind.

Living the dream

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