| Living your dream?
Posted: 3/17/2008 5:22:20 PM | Why would you spend your life doing anything else but live your dream with compromise for reality?
How else could you be happy? | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 5/10/2008 9:14:41 AM |
I am living my dream because I am doing it my way. If someone special happens along in the future we will live our dream because we will do it our way . This sums it up for me. Passion is YOU. It is in your faith, in your convictions and in your determination: don't look outside, look within. Just my ten cents. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 5/10/2008 10:35:25 AM | | I didn't exactly succeed in living my dream, but I certainly encourage my kids to live theirs. If I had had that much parental encouragement as a kid, who knows how far I might have gone. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 5/10/2008 12:11:10 PM | My passions and dreams have evolved as I have grown older.
First: as a teenager. I lived the life of a late '60's, early '70's kid. Nuff said...you can fill in the blanks there. I was certainly passionate about what I believed in and pursued .
Next: as a college student. I was passionate about my education and having fun.
Then: as a married woman who wanted children. Nothing was more important to me than my children/family. My job came second to this (and still does.)
Now: I'm passionate about the next stage of my life. I'm going to live it and do it all.
I consider these years and those to follow as my golden years! (While I can still walk and get myself around the globe!)
My son has a good take on things: he understands that he'll work in order to live and follow his dreams; compared to living to work. I have no doubt he'll make it all happen. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 5/10/2008 1:40:13 PM | 45 better not be too late!
I am working hard at a new career (I do enjoy ) so that in my 50's when my child is on his own I can pursue something else... do both ...
As long as you can dream you can have a passion.
~Charmed~ | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 5/10/2008 2:32:42 PM | I guess the key is to keep the dream from turning into a "nightmare"...... 
I will play with your words some "charmed" and say that "As long as you have passion, you can dream."......
Just my opinion.......   | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 5/10/2008 4:49:14 PM | | Which dream? I have a list of things to do before I die - and keep adding to the list. Your question made me sad as it doesn't appear that dreaming has been a part of your life. For that - you have to take some ownership. Just asking the question is a step forward as it looks like you are on a journey to find yours - enjoy. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 5/10/2008 7:47:36 PM | Si Si Yes Yes, quit a 8Ok a year job less than a year ago and I have never looked back, I have no boss and I just spent my 46th birthday in Mexico working on my cure the world project, very cool. But please don’t quit your job without a plan, eh. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 5/10/2008 9:08:00 PM | I had a simple dream.
To meet a sweet gal, have a couple of kids. Live in a nice little house -w- the white picket fence.
Grow old with my sweet wife, retire and enjoy summers on our back porch watching our grandkids play in the yard.
What a stupe.
I might as well try to win the Baja 1000. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/1/2008 4:41:23 AM | Yeah, I'm living my dream. Ever since I was a little kid, I dreamed that one day I would be 47 years old, divorced, alone and spending my nights reading profiles on the internet. I dreamed of endlessly chatting with women online, who would later reveal that they were one of the following:
Married but looking, because her husband wants to role play in bed and wants her to describe killing him and eating him (not kidding).
Married, but it's "ok" because her husband read my profile and wants me to join them".
Married, but looking because her husband hadn't given her sex in five years ( a fact she only revealed to me after chatting with her for three months and driving several hours to meet her in Reno)
A single, professional, substance abuse counselor, with a master's degree in phsychology, who practically ripped my clothes off in the restaurant, insulted the waiting staff, drank like a fish and even carried three 20 oz cans of beer in her purse, one of which she opened up and started to drink when I went to the bathroom.
A single Mom, who lost me the minute she told me that she pulled some woman out of her car window, because the lady stole her parking spot and she did this while her kids were sitting in the back seat watching.
I could go on for many more paragraphs, but what more do I need to say except yeah, I'm living my dream!! Somebody please wake me up or kill me now.  | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/1/2008 4:47:35 AM | | Oh yeah, I almost forgot. After you kill me, please don't eat me, but it would be OK if you down a 20 oz beer afterwards. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/1/2008 5:21:18 AM | In most respects, I am. When I was young my dream was to get married and have a couple of children. I accomplished that and have successfully raised two respectful, intelligent young lads. Last year after tiring of the corporate run-around, I quit my job to found a healthcare consulting business. Now, I can't complain about the boss (she doesn't listen anyway, LOL).
Sometimes dreams change, too. At 40, I dreamt of practicing law. So, I went to law school (part-time at night, while working during the day). It was grueling, but I finished. Ironically, my career took a turn for the better (see above), and I'm not practicing law.
I am happy in my modest, but comfortable, home. I have a fair amount of flexibility as to my time. And, I have the option of living just about anywhere I want provided there's an airport nearby. At times I dream of having someone significant to share life with. At other times, I wonder how practical and/or attainable that dream is. Maybe I'm already living my dream. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/1/2008 7:37:28 AM |
Yeah, I'm living my dream. Ever since I was a little kid, I dreamed that one day I would be 47 years old, divorced, alone and spending my nights reading profiles on the internet. I dreamed of endlessly chatting with women online, who would later reveal that they were one of the following:
Married but looking, because her husband wants to role play in bed and wants her to describe killing him and eating him (not kidding).
Married, but it's "ok" because her husband read my profile and wants me to join them".
Married, but looking because her husband hadn't given her sex in five years ( a fact she only revealed to me after chatting with her for three months and driving several hours to meet her in Reno)
A single, professional, substance abuse counselor, with a master's degree in phsychology, who practically ripped my clothes off in the restaurant, insulted the waiting staff, drank like a fish and even carried three 20 oz cans of beer in her purse, one of which she opened up and started to drink when I went to the bathroom.
A single Mom, who lost me the minute she told me that she pulled some woman out of her car window, because the lady stole her parking spot and she did this while her kids were sitting in the back seat watching.
I could go on for many more paragraphs, but what more do I need to say except yeah, I'm living my dream!! Somebody please wake me up or kill me now.
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/11/2008 12:41:04 AM | | I will never give up dreaming. Every dream does not need to be lived. Dreams are imaginary. I believe that no on lives out their dreams. Circumstances and life gets in the way of dreams. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/11/2008 6:29:49 AM | I have always believed (and lived) that we should SAY it now, and DO it now. The next second is not promised to us.
Yes! I am living my dreams, by trying to make a difference in the world.
My passions: Dancing, singing, reading and writing.
Dancing : Ballet is my 1st love, and I still perform
I still sing
I have written my memoir: Ghost Child to Triumph (from a child with no voice, to someone who speaks up against injustice), and have an editor
I have a poetry website with over 14,190 hits
I've been published 2 times in a University journal
Published in a psychiatric journal.
I recently wrote a paper on one of my other passions : Verbal Abuse.....(getting the message out their regarding verbal abuse); I spent 31 years living with that, and then 10 years, researching......now the moderator of an abused survivor's group. I keep writing to the media types to talk about that. It is rarely recognized, nor understood.
Submitted my paper to the American Counseling Association, and will find out in August if I will be presenting it.
So, yes.....even though a life of adversity might have knocked me down (LOL), I was determined to live the best life I could.......Oh, I just won a scholarship because I wrote my story (piece-a-cake)....was 1 out of 10 receipients out of 1,600 women in the U.S. and Canada
I intend to never stop.........I would (like most others here) love to find someone to share my life with. There is another passion (which I haven't indulged in, LOL).....because I haven't found the man I need yet.
Rossal | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/11/2008 7:48:39 AM | Hello, yes I am pretty much. I am fully retired and putting together a
1940 Dodge coupe, and Yes it has a Hemi! Wish I could find more time
to go fishing and get up North to film wildlife, but I will in time. Last
winter I redecorated my apartment with new furniture and such. I'm
having a great time! Love going to local car shows. Just wish I could
share it all with that Hot little flower child that I am looking for! | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/11/2008 5:23:36 PM | Well, at the age of 43, I had the corner office with the bay view. I managed shopping centers in Northern California and I had just kicked out a tenant because he owed my boss $10k in rent. I had to sell off all his equipment and he and I just held each other and bawled in the parking lot for two hours afterwards. The next morning, I looked at my own eyes and they looked DEAD.
I spoke with my physician, who already had me on anti-depressants and ulcer meds--I was also over 300 pounds, and was drinking heavily at night. He said, "What ever happened to that Building Preservation school in Ohio you wanted to go to a few years ago (1994)?"
I told him I can't just say f*ck it all and take off for Ohio for cryin' out loud! I had a mortgage! I had credit card debt up to my eyebrows! I had car payments! I had to be a grown up! I had...
He said, "You go home. You do some research on the internet and you call me tomorrow. If you don't change something in your life, You will not have a life. I cannot treat you anymore. I refuse to watch you kill yourself!"
Well, by Saturday I'd found a house on Ebay. On Monday, mine went on the market (sold in 4 hours). My friends thought I was nuts. My family just about disowned me.
Within 6 weeks I was living in Ohio. I started college (I'd NEVER been to college) the following year and now have my "dream" job, doing project management on historical properties.
You know what? I'm ALIVE. Sure, I still get some resentment tossed my way, but it's because THEY are unhappy...not because of ME or MY situation.
I am now nearly 48. I am attending the university full time and I am making the deans list consistently. I own my home outright. I have no debt but student "loan" debt.
I'm HAPPY, dammit. Come and join me.
I really miss that doctor, though.
LIVE your dreams. The small ones. The big ones. | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/11/2008 8:01:05 PM | Living your dream? Not really.. I believe when I was younger, I had these dreams, and what I thought life was supposed to be like, but that doesn't mean they come true, or I wouldn't be where I am now.
I used to dream of being married, having six children.. (that's right, 6) and live happily ever after.
I had 2 sons, lost a daughter at birth, but I did have 26 foster children in 6 years, but the happily ever after didn't happen. JMO
Guess I will just dream about  | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/11/2008 9:29:45 PM | I know what you mean about 'surviving' except that I always did enjoy my work (somewhat). But I had I always had hobbies/ income supplementing pastimes that had some degree of creativity (did wheel-thrown pottery, built furniture & cabinets, did drawings and paintings).
Thirty years ago I wanted to study advertising art. I did not believe that I was a good enough artist or that the job would pay -- or any other number of excuses. Maybe I was just afraid that work would be too much fun.
FINALLY -- I just started a second degree -- Bachelor of Fine Arts / Graphic Design. So far, I love it. Even though it is a lot of work, it is all fun and interesting. It has taken me thirty years and a life-altering (horrible) experience to finally take this plunge & I am so glad. I did recently risk everything and then lost everything (a marriage that lasted only months). To now take this risk seems like a walk in the park. I am 52 years old and will be at least 55+ before I am finished my degree.  | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/12/2008 8:40:37 AM | ^^^^^
Yeah well, you're gonna be 55+ ANYWAY, right? Might as well GO FOR IT! | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/12/2008 9:07:30 AM | My dream has become reality and now it's hard work! | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/12/2008 9:09:52 AM | Yes I am living my dream , now its just a reality and no longer a dream. I am constantly putting "carrots "in front of me to strive for. I always keep focused on what I need to do in order to make them happen..that is my driving force. I haved lived many of my dreams in the past and cant imagine a life without goals to reach for.
Years ago I wrote on a blackboard beside my door ...
* THINK POSITIVE
* THINK BIG
* BELIEVE
* VISUALIZE
* GIVE THANKS
I still have that written on my chalkboard , see those reminders everyday and I try to do those things on a daily basis.
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/28/2008 10:00:12 PM | Pausch is a pretty interesting guy - no doubt. As for living my dream - I do that every day of my life - every day I find some reason to do what I do - now it doesn't work every moment of every day - and it doesn't work every day - but each day we are presented with wonderful opportunities - and all we have to do is choose to respond to them - On fri I finished a $4 million dollar grant proposal to provide health care for the state - and also had the opportunity to feel really angry at someone (thus knowing myself a bit better), then had the opportunity to spend time with people I love and finished the night by tucking in my favorite 7 yo - were these dreams I had when I was a child - no - but it was a day of living my moment - to - moment dreams and passions - my passion is for my life.
be well all | |
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| Living your dream?
Posted: 6/28/2008 10:01:50 PM | | sorry about the typos - I can't type and it's late - I'm going to sleep. | |
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