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Old May 16, 2003, 02:04   #1
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What are you building in life?
I was thinking today as I played chess, to pass the time, with an older fellow at a public atrium in NY. I was thinking, man I've seen this guy round for ages and he is here almost every time I come here and he hasn't gotten any better. I have only slightly improved myself but this thread isn't about my judgement it's just about the realization I had...

It seems most people aren't really "going anywhere" in life : they wake up each day, work, perhaps read the newspaper (and forget 90% of it by the next day), eat, watch tv & sleep. Their lives change little from year to year except by outside circumstances.

Are you building anything? By building I mean working towards a goal, accumlulating skills, ideas, resources, etc. A year from now will you be able to somehow physically measure your progress?

Is this even important to you?

Myself, I have been drifting for too long now. I am the type that gets very irratable and frustrated when I am without direction. I hate being aimless but I don't like settling on an aim I know is not truely important to me.

I'll shut up now and let people reply.

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I want to buy and completely restore and renovate the house and surrounding grounds I grew up in.

That's a lot more difficult than it sounds. It may cost 5-6 mil to do it the way I want.

Crassly materialistic enough for you?

I may have enough by my 60s.
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what am I building in life?

...besides a mountain of debt and regret?


















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My goals of life :
(1) Knowledge
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(3) Breed
...in that order.

I'm a very ambitious (greedy) person, when it comes to achieving my goals. That means that I'm willing to sacrifice a lot in order to accumulate those.

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Actually, I believe the most desirable goal in my life is good health until the very end.

Money, family, career, all seem hollow if one has to live in pain.
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What's an MFA?
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Re: What are you building in life?
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Are you building anything? By building I mean working towards a goal, accumlulating skills, ideas, resources, etc. A year from now will you be able to somehow physically measure your progress?
Well, I am completing an MBA degree now, doing my second last term. After that is done, I am thinking about a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). I haven't been able to save much money, but I have loads of books and professional journals. I also have been developing a number of ideas, some are for games, some are for books, and some may even be patentable.
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Goals in life?
Have as much fun as possible.

-> Money is basicly irrelevant and only partly of use to achieve this goal
-> You have to think about it, if working hard is paying off or not, having your goal in mind. (For Example: Is it worth to work 100h+ so you can choose some expensive hotel on your vacation or would you rather work 10h so you can afford a Doormroom?)
-> The more freetime you have, the more time there is to have fun. Money is nice to have, but doesnt translate as much in happyness as freetime can (hope that can be understood )
-> Ergo my money needs are achieved by having a part time job with 20h/week. That gets me enough money to live from comfortable and have enough extra for all expenses that are neccessery for going out and such (tickets for cinema, clubs, drinks, etc.) Of course I cant afford an house, but why do I need one?
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RIght now I'm in my mid 30s and catching up on my education (BSc then Masters in IT).

I spent my 20s on various computing projects, all of which went belly up. But I had an immense amount of fun doing them, and learned a lot as well. I also used those skills to get an awful lot of free passes to nightclubs and illegal raves.

My ultimate goal is to be happy, and seen as a creative, helpful person, for the right reasons.

If I don't achieve these goals, I will still have had a lot of fun with my life. Now I'm older I understand that goals are important. But if I don't score, I don't count it as pure failure - I try to learn from them and get on with the next bit.
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