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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2009 20:49:19 GMT
So many different things make life good or bad. In this poll, you can choose the 5 most important elements that have made your life better. Yes, I know that many more things have contributed to the good parts of your life so far, but try to choose what were really the most important.
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Post by rikita on Mar 21, 2009 23:10:25 GMT
well since i am still in university, and still receive a bit of money from my parents, i guess financial independence, early adulthood and all these things are stuff i still need to wait for (though then again i guess i am already past early adulthood?)... so that narrowed down choices a bit...
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Post by spindrift on Mar 21, 2009 23:55:25 GMT
my first choice was 'sex' and the last was 'still waiting for something good to happen'...
If I'd had a 6th choice I would have gone for 'getting away from your family' (apart from my mother and my children).
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Post by auntieannie on Mar 22, 2009 16:20:01 GMT
thanks for this, K! made me reminisce positively on my life so far.
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Post by BigIain on Mar 22, 2009 16:24:02 GMT
This is indeed a real thought-provoker!
Travel, discovering sex and love feature highly for me but changing location was also a very happy time for me in the past
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Post by onlymark on Mar 22, 2009 18:53:36 GMT
One best moment of my life was the feeling I had when I'd finished all my exams and realised I didn't have to study any more, except for pleasure.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2009 19:48:47 GMT
I absolutely agree that one of the greatest reliefs of my life was when I knew that I was no longer under the control of the educational system.
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Post by rikita on Mar 22, 2009 22:26:16 GMT
dunno, i kind of feel the other way about that - i fear the moment i graduate and when i actually will have to work every day, instead of studying an interesting subject (and taking long breaks often enough)... well okay, i was very glad though when i was done with school and didn't have to study math or chemistry or physics anymore...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2009 22:32:45 GMT
Oh yes, 'real life' can be scary at the beginning. Locked into a work environment for x-number of hours a week with no control over your time. It's sort of regressive at first (the obligatory hours like in the early years of school). But most people quickly realize that there is a lot more freedom than they expected (not supermarket cashiers, of course).
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Post by rikita on Mar 22, 2009 22:51:36 GMT
yeah well, but what will i do when i can't travel several months at a time anymore (not htat i have done that in the last three years, i guess money is the one issue that will make traveling easier once i enter "real life" - if i find a job, that is)...
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Post by spindrift on Mar 22, 2009 22:57:42 GMT
What about being a teacher? at least you would get long holidays.
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Post by rikita on Mar 22, 2009 23:03:05 GMT
well for that you have to study specifically to be a teacher, here. which i didn't. also, the subjects i studied (latin american studies, czech philology, romanian philology), aren't really school subjects...
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Post by rikita on Mar 22, 2009 23:04:06 GMT
ah and also from what a friend of mine, who studied to be a teacher, says - you shouldn't expect free afternoon and long holidays at least for the first so-and-so many years. teaching involves a lot more work than just standing in class, there is a lot of preparation involved...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2009 23:19:07 GMT
I have been a teacher and I have always had friends who were teachers, not to mention the fact that my mother was a teacher, so I know how much work must go into the job. Most people do not seem to realize that a lot of the 'free time' is not free at all.
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Post by lola on Mar 25, 2009 3:36:09 GMT
I guess I'm the only one who chose parenthood so far. I have two darling teenage girls.
I'm glad 3 of you have soulmates. I love the concept.
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Post by palesa on Mar 25, 2009 4:49:24 GMT
I guess I'm the only one who chose parenthood so far. I have two darling teenage girls. I'm glad 3 of you have soulmates. I love the concept. I am told not many people meet their soulmates, I met mine and he changed my life in so many ways, we taught each other so much and we truly "got" each other. I wonder if one can have 2 soulmates in a lifetime? |
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Post by BigIain on Mar 25, 2009 7:14:15 GMT
Palesa, yes, you can have two soulmates in a lifetime. I am hoping that we can have three actually.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 25, 2009 10:25:14 GMT
My soulmate is lurking somewhere but it's unlikely I'll meet him now. I've put my hopes on the back burner for that one. It's expecting too much.
Anyway these are amongst my best life moments:
being on the beaches of Kenya; walking in the tepid tropical waters with the sound of surf booming on the distant reef and coconut trees rustling in the warm wind and
being high in the Himalayas seeing incredible glaciers and mountains and realising that the tiny streams tumbling from on high will become the great rivers of India.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 22, 2009 19:10:23 GMT
I am told not many people meet their soulmates, I met mine and he changed my life in so many ways, we taught each other so much and we truly "got" each other. I wonder if one can have 2 soulmates in a lifetime? I wonder if you'd WANT to... Perhaps getting it right once is enough for one lifetime. You can have other relationships going forward without them having to "top" or equal a past relationship, IMHO. |
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Post by gyro on Apr 22, 2009 19:13:37 GMT
There's only one for me: 25th May 2005. That was it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2009 19:49:45 GMT
What happened that day? Did you lose your virginity?  |
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Post by hwinpp on Apr 23, 2009 1:57:12 GMT
My soulmate is usually the girl I'm 'with' at the moment.
I'm not sure what the best parts of my life were. Probably my teens. Nothing to do with school but just growing up in the environments I was in.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 23, 2009 17:57:53 GMT
The day I retired and didn't have to work anymore. It took some getting used to, but I'm slowly working on it.
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Post by gyro on Apr 23, 2009 18:52:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2009 18:58:24 GMT
Oh, I certainly understand that. I felt the same way when France won the World Cup in 1998, even though I was in a hotel room in Strasbourg with my mother visiting from Florida and my brother visiting from California. (If I had been at home, I would have been a mere 900 meters from the stadium!)
If I had been alone, it might not have affected me so much, but with some of the family present, it became a unique moment for us to share, with all of the cars honking, people screaming and general joy. Certain sporting events can bring people together even when they are not extremely interested in sports.
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Post by gyro on Apr 23, 2009 19:04:26 GMT
Yerp. At the time, my local was owned and run by a Liverpool supporter, and her son is one of my mates. Obviously, the pub had a massive red bias, and when we FINALLY won, the landlady opened about 8 bottles of vintage champagne for us Liverpool-supporting regulars.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 24, 2009 14:19:40 GMT
See, this IS a travel forum - the most chosen option was "my first major travels".
Better than sex....
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Post by gyro on Apr 27, 2009 12:42:38 GMT
That's because it was sex with Keroauc ....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2009 12:58:38 GMT
'Sex with Kerouac' wasn't among the options on the poll.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 27, 2009 13:58:09 GMT
Have I missed something?
Is that being offered as a prize on a contest here? What are the other prizes?
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