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Home, I want to go home. I feel like Dorothy, but clicking my heels together and repeating there's no place like home is not working.
I want to go on as many adventures as I can fit into a year. I spent so many decades being responsible and I'm finally understanding where the 'Crazy Old Lady' came from.....
I want to go on as many adventures as I can fit into a year. I spent so many decades being responsible and I'm finally understanding where the 'Crazy Old Lady' came from.....
I agree with this completely. :laff:
I want to build a cordwood home when I retire a few years from now. This summer, I want to practice by building a cordwood shed in my back yard, maybe a 12' x 20' or so with several windows and a double door as well as a tree bark roof.
I have all the wood I need, just need to buy and mix a lot of concrete.
catherine
5-20-14, 10:40pm
...wake up and be free of debt
ETA that really that's all I "want." I am not in want at all. I want for nothing. I have everything I need. So, I want nothing.. (except to be brought up to ground zero debt-wise.)
awakenedsoul
5-21-14, 12:14am
I want to keep doing what I've been doing. I've refocused on the house and garden. When I feel good about those two things, everything else in my life seems to roll. I want to keep knitting clothing and gifts. I want to continue to grow and harvest fruit.
I want to enjoy the tap class I agreed to teach for senior citizens at the Senior Center. I start next week. (Large groups of older women make me nervous...) They already tried to pressure me into joining their social group and I told them "No".
I want to continue to focus on my exercise to keep my knees going without pain and do a lot more walking. I want to continue my quilting and traveling.
I want ... a weekend (or just any two or three days in a row) with nobody else around (even DH, bless his heart) and nowhere to go and nothing I have to do. I want to putter. I want to do some of the things I want to do, even not finish something and move on to something else, as the mood strikes me. I'll get back to it ... on my own time. Or not. I'm tired of feeling harried and stressed with rush rush rush, go here, go there ... all the time. We're retired, and DH loves being BUSY BUSY BUSY, all the time, and thinks I should do it with him!!! I don't want to. He knows it. He doesn't care -- he wants us to do things together. And I want to. BUT .............. but ................. but .............. {sigh}
I want everything.I want everything except "stuff" - i.e. material goods. But I would like to try to do everything I can. Somethinsg I want to do really bad I am unable to do at this time, but I do try to do the things I can. Never know how long you got!
I want everything.
Just curious.. can you elaborate? I'm intrigued.
I want to find a new job.
shorten my list of things I want....by doing them.
1. obtain a 2nd part-time job
2. pay off the truck debt
3. sell our house
4. when the boys go to college return to full-time work (you know, one with insurance and retirement) or return to school myself
I want to earn my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. (Almost there, my test is scheduled for June 8th, but it could still be months before I'm officially promoted depending on my performance.)
I want to run a 50-mile race fast enough to qualify for entry into a 100-mile race. And then I want to run a 100-mile race!
I want to land the job I interviewed for yesterday.
I want to have a little more courage and serenity. And time.
Gardenarian
5-22-14, 3:10pm
I want to improve my health.
Just curious.. can you elaborate? I'm intrigued.
It intrigues me, as well. I really do want everything. It all might not be in my best interest, but I want it, all of it. Wanting and loving and keeping is not going to happen for everything, but I adore the challenge and experience of finding out what works for me and what needs to become an amusing anecdote.
I finally left a long, abusive marriage. I am pretty sure that I was never intended to survive it, but some greater something came along and I made it out alive that day. I have gone from danger and being without resources to working my ass off to have the life I now enjoy. I am still healing and I think that recovery is going to be on my menu for much longer that I thought it might be. I have some residual physical stuff and am being properly treated for PTSD. Who woulda thunk it.
I might not actually have...or even, truth be told, really and truly want every single thing in the world...everything, but the option to want, work and attain anything that catches my heart is such an amazing thing. I barely made it out of high school and today I have created two unique programs at our Library, work as an Advocate in a DV shelter, work with our city's homeless population and will be starting a support-based arts and crafts program (as opposed to actual art therapy) in two weeks at one of our city's agencies.
Pretty good for a person like me, ordinary, plain, not all that smart. You know, one might even say it is awesome. Yep. I already have so much, and I still want more.
Thank you for asking. I do not share this often.
It intrigues me, as well. I really do want everything. It all might not be in my best interest, but I want it, all of it. Wanting and loving and keeping is not going to happen for everything, but I adore the challenge and experience of finding out what works for me and what needs to become an amusing anecdote.
I finally left a long, abusive marriage. I am pretty sure that I was never intended to survive it, but some greater something came along and I made it out alive that day. I have gone from danger and being without resources to working my ass off to have the life I now enjoy. I am still healing and I think that recovery is going to be on my menu for much longer that I thought it might be. I have some residual physical stuff and am being properly treated for PTSD. Who woulda thunk it.
I might not actually have...or even, truth be told, really and truly want every single thing in the world...everything, but the option to want, work and attain anything that catches my heart is such an amazing thing. I barely made it out of high school and today I have created two unique programs at our Library, work as an Advocate in a DV shelter, work with our city's homeless population and will be starting a support-based arts and crafts program (as opposed to actual art therapy) in two weeks at one of our city's agencies.
Pretty good for a person like me, ordinary, plain, not all that smart. You know, one might even say it is awesome. Yep. I already have so much, and I still want more.
Thank you for asking. I do not share this often.
Wow.. I didn't expect that response... I'm SO happy for your "rebirth," Jilly. I understand the feeling and it sounds like you are taking full advantage.
A really cool video popped up on my FB feed this morning, and I'm attaching it here. In it they quote Jack Kerouac in a quote that reminds me of how you describe your "second half of life."
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars across the sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NA_tjY8osGE
That is pretty cool. I especially like the older video/film/whatever of the pilgrimage procession at the Ka'aba. I have always wanted to visit there to watch and observe that grandeur in person. Ah, another want. It probably will not happen, just like running a cattle ranch in Wyoming.
I am not a dancer of any kind, but I do hear the music and am a great twitcher.
Intrigued again here, and wondering what you thought my response might have been. I am glad to have this now-new life, as well. I never dreamed, not for a single moment, that such a life was even possible, much less something I would actually have. I am totally and awesomely blessed, and I know it.
catherine
5-23-14, 11:10am
Intrigued again here, and wondering what you thought my response might have been.
Well, given this is a simple living forum, where orientation usually leans toward "minimalism," "enough," "decluttering," there just seemed to be a disconnect there--it was more something I'd expect to read on a Harvard Business School recent alumni forum. So my mind went to "everything material" when it was really "everything experiential and life-affirming." Big difference.
Prince Kong
5-27-14, 7:45am
... be with my boyfriend. :(
Welcome Prince Kong to SL. May you be with your boyfriend soon.
gimmethesimplelife
5-28-14, 11:42am
Be more at peace with the nature of human life and it's limitations overall. Come to peace with the concept that life is short and also come to peace with a consumer culture that seems to be in total denial of life being short, just buy this and this and this and everything will be OK. Be OK at a deeper level with being single and realizing this is quite likely my fate - I'm no victim due to this (!!!!!), I want to make more of my time here including more enjoyment overall of my time here. Rob
I want to take some time off and take a class, go to Omega Institute, or just paint for a week. It has been way too long since I had a mental break from regular schedule.
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