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Do you know what you want from your life?

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Do you know what you want from your life?

I've been alive for 46 years and during the last few years I have been gently (by life's later flow) encouraged to accept that oftentimes letting life unfurl in its own time, in its own way, is better than trying to force to go it in a particular direction.

When I was heading out into the world, twenty odd years ago, I wasn't lucky enough to have a direction; a place I wanted to arrive at. All I wanted was freedom from the rules and restrictions I saw around me.

Maybe I was lucky because I was allowed to go make silly mistakes and on the heels of those mistakes find out what I didn't want - sometimes the consequences of those mistakes have been good, sometimes they've been bad. Either way, they've been my mistakes - taking the word in its truest form: missed takes. Some have lead me well, others not so well.

I remember very clearly how much twenty year old me wanted to find her place in the world, and thirty year old me wanted to believe there was a place in the world for her to find. Forty plus me sees why it was better for me not to travel some roads, even though I did travel some of them.

I wish I could say I always followed my instinct, but I didn't. Sometimes I shoved it roughly aside and acted against it, but here I am, now, and I know I can still make good from the bad. It might have been better, but equally, it might have been worse. Who knows? It is what it is.

And now, over to you. Did you/do you know what you want from your life?

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DoYouEvenLift

I'll tell you what I want, man. 2 chicks at the same time, man.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Yes I know but I'm not telling you as you'll only copy me.

Talib Fiasco

Money, cars, clothes, hoes.

Fin

Cantremember

Meh.

Sheep Lover

A euro more than I can spend.

And a sex dungeon full of promiscuous women.

eviltwin

Still trying to figure it all out

Summer wind

To be happy healthy wealthy and wise.

Fiery mutant

I want my children to grow up to be happy and the best that they can be. Watching them smile is enough to make my day perfect.

Starscream25

To defeat my enemies, see them driven before me and to hear the lamentation of the women.

pharmaton

I want to talk to my dad. He's been dead fifteen years but yeah, I have never been able to fill the space that he left and I would have liked to have had some kind of substitute who would tell me what I should want from life or even just to have some guidance through it. That would be great. Preferably not in the flesh though. That would be scary.

wait, I figured it out, its about having somebody that actually cares in your life. yeah, that would have been nice.

Zanablue

Im married with two kids and I still don't know what I want from life. I suppose I just go with the flow.

PizzamanIRL

I suppose this post from reddit's Today I ****ed Up kind of belongs here

TIFU my whole life. My regrets as a 46 year old, and advice to others at a crossroad

[Deleted User]

What I really want in life is recognition. I want other people to look at me and go "damn, he's good at <insert something relevant here>, I wish I was more like him."

Never gonna happen though, so I just have to be content with aiming to not fúck up as often as possible. Which is a pretty depressing thought but meh, could be worse I guess.

masculinist

I want a solid gold rocket car

Cosmicfox

At the minute I just want to be earning my own money and supporting myself instead of depending on my parents (or dole if I could get it) and eventually start contributing.

I think I'm finally starting to get over my social anxiety and even had a job interview this week without fluffing half-way through. So it's a start I suppose (if they give me it of course).

Having a steady job I can face in the morning and a place to live is what I'm aiming for.

The Cool

Not a clue, currently in the midst of a quarter-life crisis, dunno what I'm supposed to be doing or what I'm supposed to want, I'm at the stage past all the fun stuff of college and travels, I'm too broke to do anything, my friends are getting married, and I'm like, is this it?

I suppose really, I want to feel proud of something, or that I achieved something worthwhile. Whatever the hell that is, answers on a postcard please

bodice ripper

A juggernaut heart and a Japanese car.

Mickey H

Eat, drink, get paid, get laid.

That is all.

masculinist

I want magic powers

Chunners

Getting a boob job in august, after that I'll be going for full gender reassignment which, for me, will be very easy to get. Hoping to get married next year after all the archaic laws that prevent myself and my other half (who I have been with 6 years) from doing so are abolished. For me life is very selfish in that I don't think about my past because that was another person living it, that was the "he" of me and all that past **** belongs to him whereas I, on the other hand, own now. Do I have a solid plan? f*ck no, do I care? not in the slightest because I spent 30 years of my life hating who I was and now I am not him anymore and I have no regrets from my past because 10 years ago I transitioned and left that past behind and wild horses couldn't drag me back there so every day for me is what I want from my life. There is a certain amount of joy you get from life as a Transsexual when you wake up every morning and get to tell yourself that it's not a dream and you do really live as female, after that there is fu*k all that could happen through the day that can be big enough to bring you down, after 10 years it still hasn't gotten old

the evasion_kid

A log cabin on a remote mountain in somewere like Canada with a river nearby to fish and maybe a squaw too

KERSPLAT!

I know what I want but I also know it's not going to be. Just have to drive on and see what happens. It'll all work out in the end, it has up to now at least.

razorgil

to be allowed to earn a bit of decent money in a job that promised me much, but then, when the "recession" came took away all opportunity to do so, and left me in a position where i can't afford to leave, and loathe staying, fúckers...

DoYouEvenLift

Chunners wrote: »

Getting a boob job in august, after that I'll be going for full gender reassignment which, for me, will be very easy to get. Hoping to get married next year after all the archaic laws that prevent myself and my other half (who I have been with 6 years) from doing so are abolished. For me life is very selfish in that I don't think about my past because that was another person living it, that was the "he" of me and all that past **** belongs to him whereas I, on the other hand, own now. Do I have a solid plan? f*ck no, do I care? not in the slightest because I spent 30 years of my life hating who I was and now I am not him anymore and I have no regrets from my past because 10 years ago I transitioned and left that past behind and wild horses couldn't drag me back there so every day for me is what I want from my life. There is a certain amount of joy you get from life as a Transsexual when you wake up every morning and get to tell yourself that it's not a dream and you do really live as female, after that there is fu*k all that could happen through the day that can be big enough to bring you down, after 10 years it still hasn't gotten old

So happy for you!

dreamers75

Be the best at whatever I do.

38 year old me has the same aims as 18 year old me.

Going well atm.

masculinist

Chunners wrote: »

Getting a boob job in august, after that I'll be going for full gender reassignment which, for me, will be very easy to get. Hoping to get married next year after all the archaic laws that prevent myself and my other half (who I have been with 6 years) from doing so are abolished. For me life is very selfish in that I don't think about my past because that was another person living it, that was the "he" of me and all that past **** belongs to him whereas I, on the other hand, own now. Do I have a solid plan? f*ck no, do I care? not in the slightest because I spent 30 years of my life hating who I was and now I am not him anymore and I have no regrets from my past because 10 years ago I transitioned and left that past behind and wild horses couldn't drag me back there so every day for me is what I want from my life. There is a certain amount of joy you get from life as a Transsexual when you wake up every morning and get to tell yourself that it's not a dream and you do really live as female, after that there is fu*k all that could happen through the day that can be big enough to bring you down, after 10 years it still hasn't gotten old

All the best. As a poster you seem very sound and well balanced considering your ordeals. I hope everything works out the way you want it.

RobbingBandit

I want to win the euromillions, put a contract out on mine enemies and buy a far off island with a no extradition pact.

Ficheall

At the moment, I want to get "fully" healthy. This will require actually fulfilling the usual vows to exercise and eat healthily, but possibly also surgery.

I think I want to abandon the career path I'm on, even though I've spent ten+ years studying to get here. This one requires a little cojones.

I want to be able to ensure my parents (and possibly wife and kids somewhere down the line) never want for anything.

I also want a boat.

The Th!ng

I'd like to be to knock over sky scrapers with my farts.

Belle E. Flops

I am not particularly talented at anything, unless I have an undiscovered talent. I will never be famous.
But I am pretty happy with life so far at the age of 26.

If, at the end of my days, I can say I am happy,
and if I know that it has mattered that I have lived,
then my life will have been a success.