What are you building in life?

[Narz]

I was thinking today as I played chess, to pass the time, with an older fellow at a public atrium in NY. I was thinking, man I've seen this guy round for ages and he is here almost every time I come here and he hasn't gotten any better. I have only slightly improved myself but this thread isn't about my judgement it's just about the realization I had...

It seems most people aren't really "going anywhere" in life : they wake up each day, work, perhaps read the newspaper (and forget 90% of it by the next day), eat, watch tv & sleep. Their lives change little from year to year except by outside circumstances.

Are you building anything? By building I mean working towards a goal, accumlulating skills, ideas, resources, etc. A year from now will you be able to somehow physically measure your progress?

Is this even important to you?

Myself, I have been drifting for too long now. I am the type that gets very irratable and frustrated when I am without direction. I hate being aimless but I don't like settling on an aim I know is not truely important to me.

I'll shut up now and let people reply.

- Narz

[alva]

# All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow #

[MRT144]

its not the goal, its how you get there

[orange]

President of the United States of America

[Seeker]

I want to buy and completely restore and renovate the house and surrounding grounds I grew up in.

That's a lot more difficult than it sounds. It may cost 5-6 mil to do it the way I want.

Crassly materialistic enough for you?

I may have enough by my 60s.

[Lord Merciless]

I want to be able to retire at age 45.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by orange
President of the United States of America

My sights are set higher...

First Emperor of Earth.

It's just a matter of which way I'll swing: or

[monolith94]

I'm working toward an MFA in creative writing at the moment.

[Frankychan]

what am I building in life?

...besides a mountain of debt and regret?


















....Creating a real-life apllication of the Human Hive.

[RGBVideo]

My goals of life :
(1) Knowledge
(2) Money
(3) Breed
...in that order.

I'm a very ambitious (greedy) person, when it comes to achieving my goals. That means that I'm willing to sacrifice a lot in order to accumulate those.

Always have been.

[Lord Merciless]

Actually, I believe the most desirable goal in my life is good health until the very end.

Money, family, career, all seem hollow if one has to live in pain.

[MikeH]

I'm working really hard on getting our band going at the moment. That's my main building focus. It's going really well too.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by monolith94
I'm working toward an MFA in creative writing at the moment.

What's an MFA?

[TheStinger]

I'm just waiting until they come up with an immortality treatment

[Urban Ranger]

Re: What are you building in life?

Originally posted by Narz
Are you building anything? By building I mean working towards a goal, accumlulating skills, ideas, resources, etc. A year from now will you be able to somehow physically measure your progress?

Well, I am completing an MBA degree now, doing my second last term. After that is done, I am thinking about a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). I haven't been able to save much money, but I have loads of books and professional journals. I also have been developing a number of ideas, some are for games, some are for books, and some may even be patentable.