What do you want?

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Registered: 04-22-2003
What do you want?
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Sat, 01-20-2007 - 12:39pm

What do you want?  How many times have you been asked that question or asked it to someone else?


I'm sure you realize we aren't talking about a red Porsche here...  though that would be a nice bonus.  Or financial freedom, a good job, etc.


What is it you really want out of life?  What's your highest dream for yourself?  How do you want to evolve?


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Not really into Siggees...
 
Not all who wander are lost.
(J.R.R. Tolkien)


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 01-21-2007 - 8:41pm
I knew, sweetie. it is a constant for all of us to stay in the now. Esp with me re: the surgery next week, all life is in the now, but it is hard to get it. At Unity chuirch, David, the minister said, that 20 " of quiet, that is so hard to do, is so important. I really want to learn to do that, just sit for 20" each day. we do get better and better at it because we have the awareness of the now, many people walk around not knowing it, so whatever we do, we are always making strides to get there. Love, Leila
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 4:09am

Now that Greg and I have been at this stage of life
for awhile we are pretty content. We had a great
life, great careers, he is retired now and I just
freelance in health insurance and radio/tv.

We are happy with our hobbies of tennis, golfing,
traveling as well as a few other hobbies; we have
our six kids and seven grandkids to keep life
a ton of fun : )

What we would like is to just enjoy more of life
as we have been doing. And to stay spiritually
strong (we are non-denom. Christians).
We'd love to have more grandkids as Katelyn will
be 3 soon, and the oldest ones are about to be
teens.

I really should get going on the children's book
swirling in my head, LOL!

Hugs,


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Registered: 07-11-2005
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 2:53pm

The one thing that I want above all is to make sense of this life. I've really struggled the last several years and I feel as though my life has been a complete mess and a complete waste. I'd love to hit Staple's easy button, and to do it over again. But would things be necessarily any better if I hit the do-over button? Probably not. What I'd like now is to bring my life back into balance, and to make these next few years count for something!

Stormy

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Registered: 03-09-2001
Mon, 01-22-2007 - 7:12pm

I don't know any more, that I want much of anything. I don't drool for fancy possessions. They lost their siren call over the years. A book to read and enjoy is what yearn for now. A book of a great saga, or a spiritual journey or inspiration.

I used to want a career or at least a job I loved. I actually had that many years ago, one that gave me a sense of purpose and was rewarding. That is long gone. Other jobs were just jobs to bring in money. I could never truly commit to a job like that one time, again. I got married and had a child. My life revolved around them and our life together. No more career dreams.

I have been a spiritual seeker most of my life. I feel that yearning search is over. I have found my Goddess and God. They enrich me and give my life meaning.

I don't seem to want much of anything or need much more than I already have. My best friends have died. Most of my relatives are dead. Yet, I am happy with a simple life of mostly solitude. My DD is grown and on her own. DH is my lifelong companion and partner for 30+ years. I hope we'll have some time together after he retires in a few years. To just share the days, like we do on weekends. Let the time trickle slowly through our fingers, savoring one moment after another.

What's next? A good death, able to say goodbye, no lingering with a failed body and/or mind for years in some facility, please. I guess I am readying to go Home to the Goddess and God. See what comes next. ;) As I opened as a flower long ago, and bloomed and had my days of beauty and purpose, dreams, now it is time to close up and begin anew in another realm, another life.

I'll enjoy what comes, day by day, but from a more attitude of equanimity, acceptance, and deep trust.

Gypsy
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Blessings,

Gypsy

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