Goals in life.... Well?

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What are your major goals in life? I'd love to hear them :)

― Gale, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't really have all that many. i'd like to research women in rock music in new zealand, i want to lecture in feminist musicology. i'd also like to become the best musician that i possibly can be, at present this means i want to be a good songwriter and able to play guitar a bit better, but my specific goals on this will change over time. there are a lot of decisions i haven't made. i want my future to be surprising. i guess one day i'd like to be able to afford to put out real vinyl on my record label, but right now that isn't a really big priority.

what are your goals, gale?

― di, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

in my 20s, i (more or less unconsciously) put my adult life on hold while i. i learnt to be a writer, ii. i finished my book

now it seems like, because i haf no adult life, i cannot finish my book or — in some sense i must admit i do not quite understand - fully "become" a writer

very occasionally (like for a coupla years before discovering ilx) this wd erupt as a blanket of creative depression

but now i haf a blog and all is on track again (ps must update blog)

― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"erupt in a blanket" = hmmmm

― mark s, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmmm...lots of creative things I'd like to do, but I do them anyway, so maybe I want to br respected for the things I create, but maybe that's too much of an egotistical answer.

To live in the present and be truly content with life would be a more worthy goal.

― jel --, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't really have any goals in life. Well, any goals I do have are unrealistic, so I'd just get upset at not realising them, so instead I reckon I'm better off not having any goals and just getting on with living.

more generally, I do like the idea of being permanently serene as a goal, and I'm doing alright in achieving that.

― DV, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes jel that would be lovely. A few years ago I wrote down 100 things I wanted to do before I died, and now Ive become lazy -I couldnt be bothered looking for the list. Gaayyoooool this is hard! If i can scrap the 'major' bit of the question i can answer thus... sing chinese opera, do the splits, stop smoking, not eat sugar, be freelance and motivated , do cinematography for a film my best friend wrote,and think of some major goals.

― jeska, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To not be lazy, to get a decent job i can be happy with, to settle down with someone wonderful and to have children. The latter being key to it all.

― Mark C, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Di, I guess my goals are a long way off. I would love to travel, but getting myself well, and caring for my Mom is giving me a full life . Maybe someday I will meet someone special who would care to spend time with.

― Gale, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DV and Mark C's answers could be mine.

― N., Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To do lots of music writing, get a radio show and possibly a TV show at some point and to buy a giant fucking fish tank and get Master P to design my house so I can go on Cribs and accidentally open the door on the room where Tony Blair and Chuck D are playing cards with that monkey Michael Jackson keeps.

― Ronan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and yes marriage etc would be nice too but love me love my fishtank.

― Ronan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got a good one once where the ball was cleared from a corner and I volleyed it from 20 yards and it flew into the top right corner. That was my best major goal.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Write these fucking reviews

― anthony, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Goal: to write like Jessica Grose.

― Frank Kogan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

or at similar quality level

― ethan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Write a book!

― Josh, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have finished the reviews

― anthony, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My new goal is get msn or aim working on this computer before I go fucking insane from lack of human contact ALL DAY today. I'm lonely and when I said London was a sweaty city jesus did I mean it. It's so so so so so humid here compared to Dublin.

― Ronan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I reckon if you come from Ireland you're genetically predisposed to be unable to function in any climate other than one which is grey and damp.

― clive, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Become a teen-pop producer! YAY! Move away from my city! YAY! Appear in at least one episode of Clubbing With Ronan! YAY! Be able to buy the basement jaxx cd online today! YAY!

― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HOW DO YOU LIVE IN THIS CITY OF SWEAT?

I may be sweating as a result of checking out those emo girls also. There needs to be a country song, "lonely, drunk and checkin out emo girls on the internet cos my msn and aim is bust".

― Ronan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i also have some more modest short-term goals, like giving up dairy products (its been hmmm three days) and cigarettes (its been about a month). however knowing the amount of times i've tried to give up these things in the past, i do not fancy my chances.

― di, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I want to give up cigarettes but whenever I try I get major confidence problems to the point where I'll be in a shop to buy something essential like bread or milk and walk out in fear.

― Ronan, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Already one made, basement jaxx in 4 days. Ronan, theres one depending of only you, Can U Dig It?

― Chupa-Cabras, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Ronan :) If you are serious about giving up smoking, please don't do it on your own... The patch will work a lot better. Good luck! :)

― Gale, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My current goal is to lose some weight so that I can get my hair cut short and not look like a pin-head, my medium term goal is to get a girlfriend and my long term goal is to learn French and live in Europe so that I can escape the American infiltration of Australia.

― toraneko, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

to go to a party and NOT spend the following week assaulted by Tourettes-inducing mental flashbacks.

― stevie mitch, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

go to a party good enough to produce mental flashbacks that'll induce Tourettes

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 4 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

Zee Americans have invaded Europe, Toraneko.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 10 May 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i have not yet been to such a party, though i am quite uncertain of exactly what i was trying to describe above. a tourettes-inducing *anything* sounds horrible.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 10 May 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I'll stay here then and fight them from the homefront. French is too hard anyway.

― toraneko (toraneko), Sunday, 11 May 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

to only post in this place once a week.

to do something/make something that will actually be of use to someone else.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 11 May 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Have a good time ALL of the time.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 2 June 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

seventeen years pass...

what are your goals?

― treeship., Saturday, 17 April 2021 17:34 (four years ago)

and how have they changed over time? maybe even since the pandemic?

― treeship., Saturday, 17 April 2021 17:35 (four years ago)

Lovely comfortable middle class consumer lifestyle

Maybe get a second property and rent it out at some stage

― flagpost fucking (darraghmac), Saturday, 17 April 2021 18:01 (four years ago)

At this stage of my life, my goals are so modest as to be hardly worth mentioning. Just trying to stay moderately healthy as long as possible, and to get outdoors often, especially out beyond urban and ex-urban areas. Pretty conventional stuff for someone my age, except that my idea of properly getting outdoors still includes five to seven day hikes.

― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Saturday, 17 April 2021 18:28 (four years ago)

Lovely comfortable middle class consumer lifestyle

Lining up a classic mid-life crisis in due course

― Luna Schlosser, Saturday, 17 April 2021 22:47 (four years ago)

trail running as much as possible
going on vacations to trail run
djing parties every once in a while
getting out of cc debt
getting out of utah
owning a condo or a small house
maintaining and building on loving relationships
healthy and balanced sexual exploration

― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Sunday, 18 April 2021 00:36 (four years ago)

staying sober
staying nicotine free
getting high on the pot a lot
taking better care of my teeth

― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Sunday, 18 April 2021 00:38 (four years ago)

building out a nice home life in the city with my small network of pals
not committing liven't
not getting COVID-19

― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 April 2021 00:43 (four years ago)

I've honestly never had a concrete life goal other than having a family of my own. Which is not to say that's necessarily all I want in life, but beyond that, it's always been pretty hazy.

― Alba, Sunday, 18 April 2021 01:11 (four years ago)

Having a good time...all the time.

― In on the killfile (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 18 April 2021 01:15 (four years ago)

to quote the apartments:

Ask me about goals, you know I don't have any
Ask me about wishes, you know I got plenty of them

― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 April 2021 01:23 (four years ago)

put out a vinyl record

own ranch style house

― brimstead, Sunday, 18 April 2021 01:57 (four years ago)

built in the 60s or whatever

― brimstead, Sunday, 18 April 2021 01:58 (four years ago)

Stay sober
Start running again
Have friends
Have qt3.14 gf
Learn guitar
Reconcile with sis
Big fishtank

― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Sunday, 18 April 2021 02:09 (four years ago)

At this late stage, I think my goals are:

- managing to retire at some point in the next 10 years, unembittered by work and life experiences

- finding something interesting to do in retirement and avoiding boredom

(Lining up a classic late life crisis no doubt)

― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 18 April 2021 02:32 (four years ago)

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