Choice - Page 2

lumberjim · 06-10-2004, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wolf

Grasshopper, when you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave the monastery.

and when you realize that there is no pebble, you will be ready.

Beestie · 06-10-2004, 12:32 PM

50 years. I don't have goals - I just try enjoy whatever comes my way and avoid stuff that rubs me the wrong way. Looking ahead is not one of my gifts.

lookout123 · 06-10-2004, 12:36 PM

i just achieved a goal - i just whacked a rattle snake with a 5 iron! rock on. i can die happy now.

vsp · 06-10-2004, 12:40 PM

If the goals are limitless -- if I can set some serious crush-my-enemies, see-them-driven-before-me, hear-the-lamentation-of-their-women, put-Grover-Norquist-and-everyone-like-him-on-a-one-way-rocketship-to-Pluto, rub-Aladdin's-lamp-and-make-anything-happen kinds of goals -- I'd consider the 18 months.

But eighteen months can go like _that_. Hell, I can't believe it's June already, and that's just THIS year. Gimme the fifty.

Radar · 06-10-2004, 01:15 PM

I think the range is too far. I think a better question would be 10 years of overwhelming financial and personal success (not enough to watch you kids grow up), or 50 years of being a middle-management person who never stands out or does anything great.

Nice Conan-like goals vsp!

Torrere · 06-10-2004, 08:08 PM

Where oh where did May go!?

ladysycamore · 06-10-2004, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by lookout123
imagine you are told you have to make a choice: 1) you can live 50 more years, but will never achieve the goals you set, and will only find mediocre levels of success in all areas of your life. 2) you have 18 months to live but you will be granted everything you desire during that 18 months.

Which would you choose?

Hrm...well since I'm not a goal orientated person, and so far my life has been somewhat mediocre (read: normal), then what's another 50 years, eh? Especially in my situation, since I have no idea if I am going to even really live another 10 much less 50 years! :p

06-11-2004, 12:35 AM

I'd take the 18 months. If I could achieve what I really wanted to do rather than live a life of mediocrity, hell yes! Burn out bright and burn out fast. It might have been short, but I would have LIVED my life.

Catwoman · 06-11-2004, 05:07 AM

OK everyone. Stop talking. You DO have 18 months to do whatever you want to do, to at least TRY and achieve the goals you want to achieve. I am sick of these 'wish' questions. It is lazy to want rewards with no effort and believe me the reward truly is sweeter for the suffering, in whatever context. I climbed a very tall hill a few weeks ago. We didn't go up the tourist route. We climbed up the side of the hill amongst nettles, brambles and 6 foot high grass. It was at least a 60° gradient and I hated every minute of it. But when we got to the top, we realised something important. If we hadn't struggled, fallen, cut ourselves and got thoroughly exhausted and frustrated with each other, it just wouldn't have been the same. We realised it's all about the journey, not where you're going.

So I'll take the 50. And I'll make every month what I want it to be.

lookout123 · 06-11-2004, 12:27 PM

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Originally posted by Catwoman
OK everyone. Stop talking. You DO have 18 months to do whatever you want to do, to at least TRY and achieve the goals you want to achieve.

pffft - i don't have time to work towards my goals when i keep cellar on my screen all the time.

LSMFT · 06-24-2004, 06:02 PM

Easy. My goal is to live the rest of my life in mediocrity. I'll gladly take the 51.5 years at this point.

06-24-2004, 09:57 PM

As for me, time's up. I'm outta here! I'm waaitiing! (taps toe and looks impatiently up at the sky).

06-10-2004, 12:32 PM	#17
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	50 years. I don't have goals - I just try enjoy whatever comes my way and avoid stuff that rubs me the wrong way. Looking ahead is not one of my gifts. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

06-10-2004, 12:36 PM	#18
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	i just achieved a goal - i just whacked a rattle snake with a 5 iron! rock on. i can die happy now. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

06-10-2004, 01:15 PM	#20
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	I think the range is too far. I think a better question would be 10 years of overwhelming financial and personal success (not enough to watch you kids grow up), or 50 years of being a middle-management person who never stands out or does anything great. Nice Conan-like goals vsp! __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin

06-11-2004, 05:07 AM	#24
Catwoman stalking a Tom Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: on the edge of the english channel Posts: 1,000	OK everyone. Stop talking. You DO have 18 months to do whatever you want to do, to at least TRY and achieve the goals you want to achieve. I am sick of these 'wish' questions. It is lazy to want rewards with no effort and believe me the reward truly is sweeter for the suffering, in whatever context. I climbed a very tall hill a few weeks ago. We didn't go up the tourist route. We climbed up the side of the hill amongst nettles, brambles and 6 foot high grass. It was at least a 60° gradient and I hated every minute of it. But when we got to the top, we realised something important. If we hadn't struggled, fallen, cut ourselves and got thoroughly exhausted and frustrated with each other, it just wouldn't have been the same. We realised it's all about the journey, not where you're going. So I'll take the 50. And I'll make every month what I want it to be. __________________ I've decided I'm not going to have a signature anymore.

06-24-2004, 06:02 PM	#26
LSMFT Confounded Conjuror Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Inthamoment, Ny Posts: 33	Easy. My goal is to live the rest of my life in mediocrity. I'll gladly take the 51.5 years at this point. __________________ I'm not sorry anymore.

06-10-2004, 12:40 PM	#19
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	If the goals are limitless -- if I can set some serious crush-my-enemies, see-them-driven-before-me, hear-the-lamentation-of-their-women, put-Grover-Norquist-and-everyone-like-him-on-a-one-way-rocketship-to-Pluto, rub-Aladdin's-lamp-and-make-anything-happen kinds of goals -- I'd consider the 18 months. But eighteen months can go like _that_. Hell, I can't believe it's June already, and that's just THIS year. Gimme the fifty.

06-10-2004, 08:08 PM	#21
Torrere a real smartass Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kirkland, WA Posts: 1,121	Where oh where did May go!?

06-11-2004, 12:35 AM	#23
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	I'd take the 18 months. If I could achieve what I really wanted to do rather than live a life of mediocrity, hell yes! Burn out bright and burn out fast. It might have been short, but I would have LIVED my life.

06-24-2004, 09:57 PM	#27
marichiko Guest Posts: n/a	As for me, time's up. I'm outta here! I'm waaitiing! (taps toe and looks impatiently up at the sky).

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