Life Dreams

[rae_of_sunshine]

My goals:
-travel to as many countries as I can on a salary from working in a place I love
-learn a cool skill (like juggling or playing the guitar or, I don´t really know what...)
-get my driver´s license
-pay off my student loan

[BigE]

I will list ten things, since it is a well rounded number.

(1) Get sober before I lose my brain cells.
(2) Visit every Continent including Antarctica.
(3) Meet a woman that actually likes me.
(4) Become an expert user of ASL.
(5) Buy a BMW - I was turned down for a date with a girl cause she wanted to date an Ivy League guy with a BMW.
(6) Write a murder mystery - only way you can get away with murder.
(7) Learn German.
(8) Be forgiven by the only girl I ever loved.
(9) Build a time machine.
(10) Make a dream come true - a bit corny I know.

OK, made the flipping list.

[raoulduke]

Big E,

It would be easier to kill two birds with one stone.
Buy a DeLorean. That way you get a cool car and a time machine in one vehicle.
Chicks will love it.

[BigE]

Now that is a cool car!

[SuDz]

Nobody else will have it.

SuDZ

[LostFarmboy]

In my boredom at work I came across this old gem and though it would be worth reviving.

So, for those that posted a list long ago - how's the progress? For those that haven't already posted - what is your list of life dreams?

Here's how things are progressing on my original list:

- Get a job that i look forward to going to every morning - the fact that I'm trawling through old tpunk posts at work indicates that this has still not happened. I'm working on it.
- Camp a few nights at Everest base camp - perhaps I will do this someday, but I have many items on my list that are of a much higher priority.
- Get right into rock climbing and get up a grade 25 climb - I have gone far and beyond this goal.
- Finish in the top 50 of the Finke desert race on my motorbike - This has fallen way down the list. Rock climbing has replaced dirt bike riding as my no. 1 hobby. But, I would still like to ride in the Finke some day, but just to finish, not to compete.
- Continue not to smoke - Done! I can say with confidence that I am no longer a smoker!
- Get my skydiving certification - Not done, but still high on the list.
- Go and see all the friends i've made while travelling - Not at all practical. Off the list.
- Dance when i'm sober - I'm a rad dancer! Actually, I'm not really much of a dancing fan at all; I have no idea why this was ever on my list.
- Work in a foreign country - Done!
- Do useful volunteer work in a developing country - Hasn't happened. It may not even be on the list anymore.
- TRAVEL MORE - This will be a lifelong work in progress.

...and the most important and difficult one of them all
- be completely 100% satisfied with my life - I am taking big steps to improving my work life, which should up my life satisfaction quite a lot. But, I don't know if my ambitious nature will ever allow me to be 100% satisfied with my life, no matter how many lists I complete.


Ok, so I've made some progress and had some priority changes.

Here's my revised list:

- Pursue a career in a field that I am actually passionate about (environment/water resources).
- Get my skydiving certification.
- Climb some long hard rock routes. Alpine trad 5.12 would be super cool!
- Climb some long hardish ice routes. Multipitch WI5. This will actually be a quick tick as I'm going to do this on Saturday, but it has been a goal for a while and it's still not done so I'm writing it down.
- Learn another language. I'm surprised this wasn’t on my previous list.
- Learn to play the harmonica.
- Find a place I can be happy to call home for a few years.

So, what’s on your list?

[expatben]

Move back to my native Canada Nope
Go to University Nope
Complete University Nope
Travel more work in progress
Have more fun with friends Yes

[bertus]

Well in no particular order:

1) Learn to SCUBA dive
2) Skydive and BASE jump
3) Join the 300 club (you go to an observation station at the south pole, sit in their sauna and then make a made dash outside while still naked and have someone take your photo)
4) Get a PhD or DPhil
5) Live in Europe
6) Become fluent in a second language
7) Travel to every continent
8) Take a motorcycle trip and live in a tent for at least 2 weeks
9) Hike the Incan trail
10) Compete in the Dakar
11) Get on to my provincial rugby team and score a try (I play second row so this will be a challenge)

[Rhine]

Get into Airforce test pilot program.
Become an Astronaut
Walk on the Moon by 2020
Break the work freefall record (102,800 feet and reaching speeds of 614 mph)
Open my goddamn ramisis puzzle

thats all i can think of right now.

[simply_angelic]

1) Learn to play the guitar, and piano
2) further my scuba training. Currently leaning towards working towards becoming a dive master or instructor when i graduate and save up some funds a bit....
3) Sky dive
4) Love. And be loved.
5) study buddhism in a monastery in nepal for a month
6) start my own conservation company. *the dream* for me when it comes to a career.
7) Live everyday...really live it.

[ScarlotteDorian]

Nice revive! I totally forgot about this post. Reading through and knowing so many people on travelpunk, it is cool to see that many people have checked at least a couple things off of their list. As for me:

1. being certified to scubba dive and scubba diving cool places during our travels. Nope, I still haven't even snorkeled. I kind of took up mountaineering instead.

2. living on a sail boat for a summer and learning how to sail, maintain and navigate it. Nope, but i did do four days on puget Sound where i learned quite alot.

3. hiking the Appalachian trail or it's equivalent in another country; which would satisfiy another of my goals of hiking in nepal.I leave in three months to hike the appalachian trail

4. establishing myself as a freelance photographer, traveling the world shooting photographs.yet another goal that fell by the way side while going to school and mountaineering

5. being able to do a cartwheel. (i'm serious) Nope. it eludes me

New Goals?

1. Complete the AT hike by Sept 2010
2. Climb Mt Rainier
3. Find a job that i am passionate about
4. Quit smoking, even if I am just a "social smoker"
5. Find a great guy that hikes, is laid back and is down with an alternative lifestyle.
6. Have a baby. yeah, i want to be gloriously fat and happy for nine months and then be a great mommy.

[simply_angelic]

Originally Posted by ScarlotteDorian

5. being able to do a cartwheel. (i'm serious) Nope. it eludes me

You can do it. I believe. None of these videos are really great, but I think the key points to take away from them are that you can't LOOK at the ground, you have to just let your head fall upside-down (scary in the beginning, yes), and you want to try to line your hands up so that they are in a straight line parallel to the direction you were looking at originally....

[juliagulia]

Wow, this was over three years ago?? Insane. Here are my updates:

1. Once I'm done college: drop off the face of the earth... or.... the U.S.? I can't stand being here. Every moment of my life I just want to jump on a plane to somewhere and do whatever... not done college yet, but this is a work in progress. i have student loans, so i can't quite drop off the face of the earth, but i could very well leave to US

2. Get writing more. My journalism teacher has given me a page of the paper to edit with a friend (journalism one students usually only learn rules of writing and stuff like that that has nothing to do with actually writing...), and i think she said we could start writing articles as well...wow, I write A LOT more. i'm an english major now and I think i'm going to end up focusing on creative writing

3. I don't want to depend on my parents once I'm 18 (except for you know... college...), so I plan on moving out when I'm 18... HA!

4. Bungee jump

5. skydive

6. scuba yes!! this got done on our trip to Mexico two years ago? amaaaazing

7. meet some tpunks (april...aaaaapriiiil) yes! this happened twice, I think

8. get a tattoo. yes! got one five or so days after i turned 18.

9. Learn to not regret things, no matter what happens... i wouldn't say no matter what, but i've stopped regretting things from the past in general and at this point, have no regrets. i'd do everything just as i have done it, and it feels great to say it. here's to hoping that this sticks!

I think I'm pretty content with five out of nine!

Revisions:

1. Figure out what to do with an English major. I think, at this point, the plan is to apply to a PGCE program in NI? But I could also apply to get my masters in creative writing, poetry or Renaissance Studies. ANYWAY. figure it out.

2. continue to write when i don't need to

3. appreciate my family more

4. graduate!! this has been a stressful semester, for sure, but there's only a year and a half left!!

[dannyjoy]

1. Want to be a millionaire
2. Want to be Singer
3. Want to be a Actor
4. Want to have many girl friends
5. Visit whole the world
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[CristinaWilson]

nice post!

[rockababes]

1. Quit my job, travel overland from Asia to Europe down to South America.

2. Crash the houses of the locals and villagers along the way.

3. Be fluent in Spanish.

4. Live in South America

5. Am I too ambitious to say I wanna climb Mount Everest, that would be the last. And I'd probably wanna die there. What a great place to die. ♥

[Sijuki]

Sounds like a good list.

[expatben]

Wow...so long ago sooo lesee...
Move back to my native Canada Yes
Go to University Nope (I did enrol though)
Complete University Nope
Travel more work in progress
Have more fun with friends Yes

Eh, 2 out of 4 isn't bad and to be honest, university isn't a priority any more. So, some NEW life goals

See every continent
Travel more
Spend time with friends and family

[Canadian Bacon]

Writing at age 30, I might add. I started backpacking at 24 and I am still a backpacker

Top 5 Life Dreams
1. Learn survival skills in the wilderness, and spend an extended amount of time living in a purely natural area, where my life is not dominated by many human beings interactions.

2. To be a master of a martial art, or contribute to martial arts. For example I have learned Muay Thai since I was 23 or so. When I grow older, I plan to really study Tai Chi.

3. To write a great novel or script.

4. To meet complete satisfaction in my professional and love lives.

5. To meet death with courage.

[lerma]

My goal for now is to buy a new laptop before the year ends. Hopefully I can achieve it.