What is your goal in life?

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I guess it's kind of the companion to the meaning of life thread. Brought up by a conversation between me and the roomie where we decided our goal in life.

― Ally, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have one. I don't play football, ha ha ha. Having said that, it's probably to avoid stupid puns. And stop buying more records than I have time to listen to. Another four ordered this evening...

― DG, Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like to to say I had a time. I'd rather say I bagged Anna Kournikova. I'll probly be happy to say I tried, I failed, I got erection.

― Otis Wheeler, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was gonna write dance proud, fuck safe and make revolution, but I don't dance, haven't fucked for years and my only contribution to the revolution is my che guevara tat, so I guess I'll settle for writing books and articles that help other people to not feel the overwhelming burden of lonleiness and aloneness that I felt before I dsicovered how liberaating books and music could be.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It used to be to shag the Channel 6. But then I got a boyfriend who did not understand this goal, reckons it is a crap goal, and that I should get another one.

Erm... I have pretty crap aspirations. I just wanna do the normal things, like... you know, get on the cover of the NME, sell out Wembley, have vast amounts of cash to blow setting up a record label to sign rubbish bands that no one likes except me, oh, that sort of thing. You know.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My goal in life is to become a university professor, have an esteemed lecturing career til I'm about 45, then retire to the coast, get a nice house, play glof all day, write books on obscure subjects...and I suppose, meet a nice girl and have some kids as well...Alternatively, I wouldn't mind being a scriptwriter for a show like Dawson's Creek or something like that...Though, this could all be pie-in-the-sky, as I'm always much more clear on things I don't want to do, leading to know real thought as to what I really WANT to do!

― james e l, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let's make "glof" the official sport of ILM! It just sounds so great! Anybody with any ideas concerning rules, players, aim of the game, feel free to contribute.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oops, ILE that should read. That other board has no place here.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to become a professor of Egyptian Archaeology, write a few books, find someone I love and who might actually love me back, and maybe have kids. Oh, and I also want to host an Egyptological version of time team, the gimmick being that I will become known as something along the lines of the 'indiekid egyptologist', but not become as much of a whore as other gimmicky people such as Jamie 'twatbastard' Oliver. Simple, really.

Bill

― Bill, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To get through each day without having a mental breakdown. To piss on the White House Lawn. To live long enough to become a burden to my children.

― michele, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mine is, first, making other women jealous of me (this was me and Steph as a tag team) by hitting on their men. Then I am to move to England and become a rock star with a different friend, even though neither of us really have musical talent, but that didn't stop Travis and we're way cooler.

― Ally, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think we're all cooler by Travis by default.

Goal -- make friends and keep them, try and be nice by tempering my natural selfishness down, share what I like with others so they can find out about things I like are worthwhile, leave the planet a little better than I entered it. Not something I keep in mind as a mantra, but it's a reasonable aim, I think. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

indie cool in 2 years broadsheet cool in 5 first book in 8 booker nomination in 12

I want to live on the south coast of england, love someone cute and brainy, run an arts and residential education centre, opens its doors 15 years to today, working with the same friends I have now involved - even if it's just when they pass through.

survive the oil running out survive the next generation of diseases survive the collapse of the information economy

god this turned into a prayer.

― christopher, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get bought a pint. Its the little things that count.

― Pete, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete, I don't even know you, but if it will make your goals come true, *I* will buy you a pint. (I'd send you to virtual pints, but I've forgotten the URL...)

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't you dare send me virtual pints. They are evil because they are not real. Well London is a small city and I am sure within time you will be able to fulfill my goal in life.

That said - I have a new goal every day. (Though most days its the pint one). If you're in the Swiss Cottage area tonight I'll be in The Swiss Cottage about 8. Else its next time I make it to the Trotwood.

― Pete, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry, due to the STUPIDITY of not being able to find what I needed in Tooting, I will not be in Swiss Cottage tonight, despite my plans to have been. Moving house, I seem to have left my gramatical sense packed up in a cardboard box.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quite simply: to stay afloat financially and fulfil myself creatively.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am the king of the typo...first pinketron and now glof, who will both be characters in my forthcoming childrens novel.

― james e l, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The constant edification of Myself.

― Simon, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Two goals I had were to own a car and a house by age 30. I got the car earlier this month and will be closing on a condo by the end of next month. Now I need to work on winning the lottery...

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

pinketron and glof! Ooh it *does* have a very dynamic duo type of ring to it james.

umm my 'glof' is to improve whatever I can. The end.

― Kim, Tuesday, 26 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get a degree in english
run a gallery/musicspace/bookstore/publishing collective/indie boy queer stripjoint ( all in the same building, the strippers would look like Thom Yorke)
publish my poetry in something other then lit zines and chapbooks
Stay with David for 50 years or until i die
Visit all the major cities in Europe from brussels to Istanbul,from Oslo to Corsica
once fall asleep before midnight

― anthony, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Our credo - "LIVE FAST & LEAVE A DEAD BODY."

― duane, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're supposed to have a goal? Why wasn't I told about this?

― Nick, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think my goal in life is now to create 'Pinketron', where badly pixelated 80s bots play college rock on some kind of platform while being chased by badly pixelated snapping crocodiles, or something...

― gareth, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno, I thought "pinketron" was going to have something to do with super-intelligent animated mice or something. Being chased by bad 80s videogame beams of light, of course.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My current goal is to lose 25lbs over the next 5 months. To this end I have bought some fruit which seasoned Tom observers will be astonished to note is being EATEN and not left on the fridge.

I probably have some hefty metaphysical goals too but I can't be arsed to think about them.

Goal I don't want to have yet must: finishing this cunting report for work.

What's your goal of the day, Pete?

― Tom, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My goal is to not fall asleep at work today. It is proving difficult.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My goal for this morning was to reach number two in the stats, and I have succeeded. (well, for now, until Mark wakes up). I would celebrate, but I can't be arsed.

― masonic boom, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My goal of the day is oddly not to have a pint and go and see two movies. Always pick attainable goals say I.

― Pete, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Must eat MORE Revels. Yum.

― Emma, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would it be unhealthy to set a goal that would be to drop 5 pounds over the next two weeks?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dan - yes, very bad idea...try for a loss of about 5 pounds every 5 weeks or so, much better for yr system, and if you nned to lose weight (which should only be for serious health reasons), a pound a week, combined with reasonable exercise and a balanced diet should see you keep that weight off for longer...diets, ie like the 5 pound in two wk thing, just make you lose either muscle or water - not the fat...mind you, if you were talking about monetary things, please send me the 5 quid - it's about 15 aussie bucks, and i could do with the moolah.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm trying to lose 10 lbs by 4th of July. Beat that, crash dieting freaks.

― Ally, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I lost 152 pounds of ugly fat in one day. All I had to do was sign the divorce papers and it was gone.

― michele, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quite. Or if you are single you can lost weight fast merely by chopping off one of your least favourite limbs (e.g right leg).

― Emma, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally, why are you trying to lose weight? Is this a dare for some money or something?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like Michele's answer, if I think of it that way I've also lost 150lbs this year.

Dan: Erm, because I need to. Who does diets for money or dares, that's bizarre.

― Ally, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crash diets seem like a great way to GAIN weight - sure, you lose the mass momentarily, but your body becomes so knackered that you end up gaining it back via the eventual relapse.

Myself, I'm trying to lose a few pounds as well. God damn, I gained about 40 pounds (and 6 waist inches) in the past 2 years. Biking like a fiend, I will be.

My goal in life? Shit. If I knew that, I'd probably stop posting so damn much & try do get something done.

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mexico. 21 June 1986. 1-0. Searing heat. Platini, strolling up at the far post - the ball eludes everyone else and nonchalantly he tucks it in. 1-1.

Unspectacular, but still possibly my favourite goal ever, because (in personal mythology) my Favourite Match Ever.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Appreciate what I already have. Touch type.

― K-reg, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm beginning to believe my goal in life is getting drunk

― Ally, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't even know what I weigh. I am overweight right now because my clothes do not fit me. When I keep a proper exercise regime, my clothes fit me again and I am happy. Judging by weight is a stupid idea because everyone knows that muscle weighs more than fat anyway.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, but I'm not exactly the world's most muscular woman so there you go.

― Ally, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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