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Post by mutti on May 1, 2007 23:34:01 GMT 2
It's ok wanting to be 'happy' but once you have everything you need to make you happy........... then what? Would you KNOW you were happy? Would you want everything to stay just the same as it is forever? Or would you begin to need more to make you happier? Life is a journey, and it's the journey that's the important thing, not the destination. I'm life, there's only one destination, and we all want to avoid that for as long as possible. Now I'm probably in the second half of my life, I realise that happiness comes and goes and the downs can make the ups feel so much better. Being content isn't difficult if you can tear yourself away from the obsession with having more and better posessions, if you can find some small happiness in the simple things that happen everyday and if you can see beauty in the landscape and people around you. As long as I'm enthusiastic and excited about the world and people around me, in music and books and ideas, I can't see that I'd ever be really unhappy.
Never lose your wonder, and try to see the world through a childs eyes. The worst thing is to grow up and get bored with the world, people and experiences around you.
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Post by Humppaporo on May 1, 2007 23:43:23 GMT 2
Never lose your wonder, and try to see the world through a childs eyes. The worst thing is to grow up and get bored with the world, people and experiences around you. I totally agree with you! There have been times that even the beauty of nature could not lift me out of sadness, and then i knew something was really wrong. Happiness never lies in posessions. Maybe you feel happy about something you get or own for a short time, but the real happiness comes from friendship, love and maybe above all: knowing what you can (create) and the possibilities you get (create). I hope to be a child inside forever
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Post by indimoon on Jun 14, 2007 19:18:13 GMT 2
Nunya, I understand what you mean. I too have lost my partner and it has brought a different view to the things I used to believe in or wish to do. Death brings a different kind of focus and grief changes the way you view everything in your life. I too would like to see peace, unification, less struggles, more honesty within the world. As I grow, learn and journey in this new turn of my life path, I find that I'm more content with the simple things and letting myself enjoy things for what they truly are. My passions or desires now are much different than before. I realize how materialistic some of the things I once thought of as important to me are now just things I thought I needed to make me happy. What I have now, my children, my health, my home, my friends...those things are so much more important than ever before. I'm blessed and I realize just how much every day I should appreciate that. So for me, I think in loss, I have found a new self. One that is far deeper than ever before. My desire in this life now is to make every moment count, to understand the positive in the negative and to keep evolving, learning and growing as a human being. To help others find the inner strength and peace if I can.
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Post by Wanderer on Jun 15, 2007 14:24:51 GMT 2
my passion is music and books. I'm writing a lot and one day I'd like to write a book or something. I have many ideas but I don't have a clear plan how to use them... and I'd like to find someone I could love someday... maybe it sounds pathetic, but it's true. and I have a great desire for travelling and I'd like to see as much countries and cultures as possible.
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Post by phoenixfire on Jul 3, 2007 17:17:30 GMT 2
Great topic, very constructive. My greatest wish and goal to be accomplished in this life is achieving a name and reputation in the musical world. I want to be a soloist in one of the great European or Global Opera Houses. This is already my first priority and I'll do whatever it needs to see this dream real. Family comes second. I don't know, a good husband, maybe a kid too...I know no human being can be complete in life. So if I'd have to choose something to come first, I think that would be my carreer. But, as many of you said, the most important, really, is having the will to, and you will manage whatever you want. All you need is a strong will and just a bit of luck.
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Post by korpikrissy on Nov 7, 2007 10:24:05 GMT 2
playing guitar is my biggest passion. id like to create a band & why not opening for korpi? wanna travel too & those two passions r linked together..i dont wanna b in a supergroup ..but i wanna rock at least a little Europe. even Travelling may be tiring soemtimes for those bands we all love. i have some other little thing which being a passion else step by step, only i dont have all material needed yet. but i do whith what i have just because i enjoy it like taking pictures or..making video lol ye i love to make videos! but i dotn have a video camera yet & so i do it with webcam thenitd better than nothing. we dont need to b rich to create thigns we love or philosophy coudl get no sense.
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Post by boozytheowl on Dec 28, 2007 1:25:38 GMT 2
Languages! ;D I will never, ever, ever grow tired of learning foreign languages. I can't even explain how fascinating I find them. I've made a promise to myself that I have to be perfectly fluent in at least five different languages before I die. Wish me luck! Besides that, I love experiencing different cultures, going new places, meeting new people, which I guess ties in pretty well with my love for languages. I love the outdoors too. If I stay indoors for more than 24 hours, the cabin fever will start to set in. I've got a couple of places which are bang in the middle of nowhere that I absolutely love just because they are always deserted. I love feeling like there's at least somewhere that nobody else has been, so in a way, it feels like it's mine.
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Post by Ligeia on Dec 28, 2007 14:59:24 GMT 2
I agree with this, I´m also fascinated of languages and I want to learn much more, e.g. italian, ukrainian and perhaps one day swedish, finnish and norwegian. My desire is to see a lot of the world, traveling around just like my mother, moving to another country, and I don´t want to be one day a bored, uptight, humourless person, with an inflexibel point of view, who can´t wonder about things in life. "Being adult is almost like being half died"
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Post by drinkingtea on Jan 11, 2008 7:57:39 GMT 2
I have lost/am losing too many of those I care about to illness and one of the things that is most important to me is to just be here with those I care about, now. Life is too short not to be here when it's going on.
My passion is for studying, learning, and travel. There are so many wonderful things in this world I would love to see and experience. Like bread. I read a book once called Going with the Grain: A Wandering Bread Lover Takes a Bite Out of Life and would love to do what the author did - travel the world and eat bread. When goofing around online, I'll bring up google earth and just look at the pictures posted there. I love that thing.
There is an organization that sets you up with groups doing field work doing various things. I wish I remembered the name of it, but one of the options was to go into Russia and help collect folk music. I love music, but have no aptitude for it, so this would be great for me once I can save up enough to do it. Maybe someday, I can learn to play drums. It just looks like so much fun!
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Post by anja on Jan 15, 2008 21:59:05 GMT 2
I like most playing the keyboard and the guitar. I like also singing, but I`m definitely not good at this. Next to music I like drawing and painting very much. I draw pictures form my friends, actors, singers, persons form films or something from fantasy like angels, the grave digger,... I like reading books, too, but I can't find enough time for it. What's concerning sports I like skiing and boating (do I write this correctly? because my english is not perfect).
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Post by pellonpekko on Jan 17, 2008 1:17:32 GMT 2
Going by Boat or Sailing yep!
Now I have new desires: I wanna Leave soon my native country to establish me in Lithuania, in a country House with a Swimming Pool, in front of a lake and a sauna. ;D
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Post by antaris on Jan 20, 2008 12:38:34 GMT 2
discover and finally understand this world, a lost cause you say? ofcourse, but it will at least keep me busy
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Post by Salamandra on Jan 28, 2008 16:44:36 GMT 2
I think I seek for two things.. Balance, and Knowledge. Balance is the hard one
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Post by suomifreak on Jan 30, 2008 21:36:45 GMT 2
my passion is music and to have fun ... I don't want to sit in a office my whole live and to die at the age of 65 ... I want that my life makes sense ... I can't always think about tomorrow ... what if I die tomorrow ... that's why I just think about today ... I could say much more about my life but it's very difficult for me to talk about such a complex and deep topic in a foreign language ...
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Tumi
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Mari chi weu!
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Post by Tumi on Jan 30, 2008 21:45:59 GMT 2
I once read this book about intuition (forgot the name of the writer) and I've been following my intuition ever since, which I noticed is a really good thing ^^ So, my desire for life is to live spontaneously, with passion, and not to worry about being rational Which is kind of easy, 'cause I'm a nut But it makes me happy ^^
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