What is "Making It"

[Spent]

Making it to me is more about enjoying life than financial goals. I'll feel I've made it if I don't feel like my life is a prison when I'm 40.

[MVS]

Hence, my mention of P.O.D.

[Stone]

Making it to me is more about enjoying life than financial goals. I'll feel I've made it if I don't feel like my life is a prison when I'm 40.

That's probably a lot loftier goal than it sounds at first. I like that definition.

[Gohron]

Making it to me is more about enjoying life than financial goals. I'll feel I've made it if I don't feel like my life is a prison when I'm 40.

I would also say that being happy and content with your life is one of the most important parts of "making it".

[Spent]

That's probably a lot loftier goal than it sounds at first. I like that definition.

Thanks man, and don't get me wrong, I'd love to make a ton of money, but really, as long as I don't feel trapped thats how I'll feel I've made it. I agree thoguh, by forty a lot of things are pretty set in stone, so it is a hard acheivement.

[Mman]

"making it" for me = sex

[Jetman]

To me making it wouldnt JUST be about making a certain amount of money. I would definitely like to be at a point in my life where I dont have to worry about how much I am spending or have left to spend at any given time. But to me being happy and "making it" would include having a happy healthy family, kids, a supermodel wife who waits on me hand and foot ( well... I guess she wouldnt HAVE to wait on me hand and foot, but I'm not budging on the supermodel part ), and being able to have my dream career - the one Ive been thinking about since I was a wee - 7 year old little Jetman. (But that bit of info is for another thread)

If I had all of those things than I would happily put a huge sign in my front yard (of my big ass house which would also be a part of the "I Made It" equation) that proclaims exactly how Made I am.

[Stone]

Do you want to be a jetman?

Give me a Vanquish with Katie Holmes in the front seat, a million shares of Microsoft in the trunk, a full tank of gas, and I'll be set, I think.

[Jetman]

"making it" for me = sex

Aww, one day you'll make it little guy - keep reaching for the stars

[station82o]

Making it to me is more about enjoying life than financial goals. I'll feel I've made it if I don't feel like my life is a prison when I'm 40.

Pretty much the same to me, I can't ever forsee myself having a family of my own, its hard enough to relate to other people let alone relate to one on such a level as to commit to marriage and kids. I'd be amazed if it happened, if it does, perhaps my goals and "making it standards" would change. Right now, I'd like to see something I've done creatively come to fruition and possibly publication, and I'd like to do some traveling, especially to Scandinavia and some meditteranean areas.

If it were a perfect world, I'd travel all over, anyway I could, sleep under the stars in makeshift camps, live off the land and cross from country to country as I pleased. Real life doesn't work that way unfortunatley. I don't know what I'm going to do when I get out of college, but I know that I'll never be in a position to get big bucks. Eh, I don't like thinking about stuff like this though, I like to take life one year at a time at the most.


Sometimes I look at people who I admire, who've made something out of their lives. Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden, started off as a delinquent student who got kicked out of private school for peeing in the headmasters lunch. After public school, he went to the territorial army for sometime and then left to go to get a degree in history at a university. He joined up with Iron Maiden sometime after that, and whilst in the band he became a top ten fencer in the UK, a novelist, a pilot (private and commerical), made solo albums, and hosted his own BBC radio shows. Thesedays he also pilots officially for the British Airways in his downtime from Iron Maiden between tours and albums. All that and not to mention his songs penned in Iron Maiden.

I dont know what I'm trying to get at, its just that he has led a really full, interesting and varied life - I know I could never be up to that level but I'd like to have my own life take those sorts of twists and turns rather than just be "predictable" and straightforward just to have a certain amount of money in the bank when I'm 40. I'd like to reach that age and realize that I've done alot of great things in my younger days.