So, what is it you want?
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So, what is it you want?
| Tue, 06-14-2005 - 4:58pm |
Imagine yourself in 40-50 years looking back on your life.
| Tue, 06-14-2005 - 4:58pm |
Imagine yourself in 40-50 years looking back on your life.
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I went to my cousin's high school graduation on Sunday.
I want to have a lot of really good memories.
My greatest success will be raising two children who grow up to be responsible, happy, well-adjusted adults with families of their own. They seem headed in that direction, if I can just get my son through the teen years! My daughter is 20 and in college and my son will be a senior next year. So far, so good!
I also see success as finding a lasting loving relationship, someone to share my life with (looking good there too!) Friends and family are a big part of my life, maintaining close ties is important to me.
I also like to think I help those in need as much as possible, I volunteer for a variety of causes, and always feel good about that, so I will feel successful if I can look back and say I made a contribution to the well-being of mankind and mother earth.
Success to me is all of the above, plus living life to the fullest, trying to maintain a positive attitude, being happy with who I am, and enjoying life!
>What is success in life to you?
1) Having no regrets
2) Measuring what I have achieved against what I was capable of achieving and being satisfied with the result.
3) Making love in every Continent on Earth. (Only 3 left!)
I've posted something similar to this before but here goes again... What do I want to look back on my life and see?
I want to see that I helped and made a difference in the lives of as many animals as possible
I want to see that my nephew went to college and is successful and help with that if possible
I want to have been successful professionally and made a hefty amount of money (and before everyone jumps in with the "you can't take it with yous", I know that and have heard it before. However, I can leave it behind for my family to enjoy.)
I want to have travelled extensively and seen as much of the world as possible
I want people to have looked at me as a strong, independent, passionate, proactive, polished, refined, creative, successful woman who followed her heart
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~Gandhi
"I want to have been successful professionally and made a hefty amount of money (and before everyone jumps in with the "you can't take it with yous", I know that and have heard it before. However, I can leave it behind for my family to enjoy.)" --
Anyone who would jump on you would be a moron.
I want to use my education to do something important instead of just make a living day to day doing something that isn't important in the grand scheme of things.
I want to have a romantic relationship.
If these two things happen, I'll be good. I'm pretty sure the first one is going to pan out, not so sure about the second one.
Edited 6/16/2005 3:55 pm ET ET by buggie10
Just a follow-up thought:
I hear and read a good bit that I can't take my money with me and that is true. However, all these people on board who long for a relationship, they can't take THAT with them either. Isn't it a two-sided coin? Seems that it should be.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~Gandhi
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