What do you want out of life?

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upsciLLion

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To show people that the perfection of life transcends our desire for anything and everything.
 

dderidex

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Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: tRaptor
I dont know why this is bothering me. I goto work every day, i come home I sleep. Maybe its just work getting to me. I just think, what am I working twards?

any meaningful friendships or relationships in your life? people you enjoy spending time with?

anything in your work life you'd like to explore? some interest or hobby you've never really taken the chance to explore?

Yeah, that's what I always try to ask the wife.

I have a hobby (boardgaming - see sig; and tinkering with PCs and PC gaming), so I'll always have a reason to work. More money for boardgames, the challenge of a match of wits with a person, etc. Good stuff!

My wife does NOT have any hobbies. So, she'd be totally going off into introspection and about the pointlessness of life if we didn't keep moving. Improvements to the house, investment properties, new jobs, new friends, etc - always have to keep things active to keep her distracted, because she can find nothing she likes to do for FUN.

Basically, the real reason she works two jobs now is because she wouldn't know what to do with her free time! It keeps her mind busy. Heck - try that, get a second job!

Personally, I think the best solution is to get out and MEET PEOPLE. Find a hobby you can share with a number of people and have fun doing it.

In my experience, though, this is the hardest thing with the wife. She'd complain "What's the purpose of life? Why go on?" and I suggest - "Well, find a reason to - find a hobby, something to enjoy doing or sharing with people" and I just get back "No, that's not it, and I hate other people, anyway"

It's, like, well DUH, you aren't even TRYING to find a reason to enjoy life, you are just looking to gripe!

(FWIW, she's not often like that - her moods are really VERY heavily dependent on personal validation at her job. When her boss is down on her, and the company is cutting payroll and riding their asses about shrink or conversions or whatever, she gets in these moods. Still, a good hobby that involves other people is a solution to this!)
 

Feneant2

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I want a wife and a job I love- so far I have neither. It's interesting really how for the majority of our life, we go to school, work, grind grind grind and then we die... not much of a way to live is it?
 

Gurck

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Originally posted by: Doboji
Originally posted by: tRaptor
What do you want out of life?


I really dont know what I want anymore. I have never wanted kids, I dont have any desire to get married....

Mint chocolate chip ice cream

nuff said

-Max

Mmmmm, I think you're onto something here :D
 

mcvickj

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Originally posted by: tRaptor
I dont know why this is bothering me. I goto work every day, i come home I sleep. Maybe its just work getting to me. I just think, what am I working twards?

I have my days where I feel like this and I'm only 23. :-/
 

Crazymofo

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I just want to enjoy life. That includes doing what I want to do and having the money to do it. Something that I feel will never be possible.
 

exilera

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Originally posted by: Banana
I'm just live day to day. Does it even really matter? So what if I die tomorrow? There are billions of humans on this planet. Ain't nothing special about any one in particular.


You remind me of the robot in the hitchhiker's guide.
 

imthebadguy

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Originally posted by: DAGTA
Sex 7 times a day.
Unlimited financial resources.
Super-powers.
A Starship.

and a donut.

:)

sound about right, id have to bumb the sex up to 10 times tho ;)
 

DAGTA

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Originally posted by: imthebadguy
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Sex 7 times a day.
Unlimited financial resources.
Super-powers.
A Starship.

and a donut.

:)

sound about right, id have to bumb the sex up to 10 times tho ;)

I didn't want to appear greedy. ;) :D