Dreams.

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Originally Posted by Tracer

I just want to travel. I never want a home. Whatever happens happens - though I have fantasized about a few things involving that. The cheeziest was falling in love with an attractive biologist in western Brazil =/

I do want to go to South America.. especially Argentina but I also want to see SE Asia, the rainfall on the Savana in Africa, Gibraltar, Iceland, ride the trans-siberian railroad, learn Finnish in Finland - lounge in the south a France, sail the medeterainian, become a courier in Alexandria - see the sea of lights and Antartica from the deck of a clipper and more. I also want to go to Tibet.

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I get a similar sense of wanderlust... if I ever win the lottery, I'm hitting all those places, backpacking that shit. Are you with me?

Backpacking is one of the most difficult things I've ever done. Granted, it was in the mountains of new mexico, but food and water is HEAVY!

Rewarding, but tiring in the extreme

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Originally Posted by Icepick

What the fuck are you living for?

Without aspirations, life has no meaning.

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Yeah,

Living sucks without goals and dreams. But you can still suck air.

I'm living proof.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

I get a similar sense of wanderlust... if I ever win the lottery, I'm hitting all those places, backpacking that shit. Are you with me?

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Word. However, I think I'd like to "go broke" (not FOR broke) instead of having some money padding me if I ever need it. I'm right now working to just buy a Jeep Cherokee and saving some money. I hope to be gone by the time I am 25.

lol. Trapesing without a net huh?

-take up the guitar
-stop hoarding so many damn possessions (ie games) so I can be more mobile. I am seriously considering ditching the vast majority of my games collection as I always go back to the same games when I visit home. I might regret it though... stop buying books and use the library more. More cinema, less DVD. More concerts, less music CDs etc.
-see the world, India especially
-career as a teacher
-stay vegan
-get married
-grow my own vegetables
-obligatory 'spirital enlightenment' cliché

The only thing I really want is to be at peace with myself and with God, or at least have some of the hope I once had. I don't want to live out the rest of my life in shame of the past and in fear of the future.

But apart from that, the only thing I really want is to look back on life and be able to say it wasn't all for nothing. I want my life to account for something, to leave something behind of some significance to someone. I don't even care if they remember my name, I'd just like to think my life has a purpose other than making others miserable. I think most of all, I want to do something for the children or youth, because in many ways we as a people are failing them. If nothing else, I'd just like to give them some kind of hope, something real to hang on to.

I have other dreams, of course. I always wanted to create a new folklore for children, write a book, become a college professor, love and feel worthy of love. Granted, these are probably just selfish desires. I don't know. I think I've lost the ability to tell what's selfish and what isn't.

Maybe I'm just really in a bad way lately, but it all seems impossible. But regardless, I'm still going to try my damnedest. It's the only thing I know how to do. Even if I only fail at all of these things, at least I can say my goal wasn't failure. I guess that represents a start, if nothing else.

Heh, I didn't mean for this post to turn into such a pile of sad-sack whining. Maybe I should have stopped after the first sentence.

I have changed all of my dreams, I now wish to leave everything behind and become a Samurai. Now I just gotta figure out where :/

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Originally Posted by station82o

Pretty much everything Tracer said, and add in alot of other places. I want to see the world, live an experienced life, have adventure (is such a thing even possible today or is it all fiction?) I dont want to get stuck working at some corporate company being employee number #4563.

Absolutely...sometimes I wonder if in this day and age such a lifestyle is even possible. Long ago it was we know, people could live off the land and travel the hard way on foot and sleep under the stars - it just seems so damn impossible now. You start walking around like a vagabond and you'll be thrown in jail so many times... all the little crap like that - you can't take a ship somewhere to another country with no worries because stowawaying isn't a decent option now and you've got all this customs, immigrant status crap to deal with everywhere... the world has gotten too organized. I dont want to call for chaos, but... blah, you know what I'm saying.

Watching Pirates of the Carribean... its a film I enjoy very much and it makes me happy but it also makes me a little melancholy, I watch it and I wish I could have the life or at least lead a life similar to Jack Sparrow... corny sounding yeah I know but its like he said... "thats what the black pearl is...freedom" .... :(

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I feel the same way. I get like that when I watch or read about the past. I to want to travel the world. But now you need lots of money and papers and crap. And speaking of PotC, I've considered getting a tattoo of a the old skull and bones. I want it becuase of that line "thats what the black pearl is...freedom"

Freedom, can you really have it these days? Or just a sort of non-painful or hard life?

True freedom has been lost with the rise of advanced technology I think.