1) I won the lottery and bought a cottage down by the sea
2) Mum kicked my brother and sister out and had the place to herself
I feel more motivated now to make that dream come true. I can actually visualise it, and we all know what happens when you visualise… :D
I'm still very wistful about my situation with him but I guess it's all part of letting go of those dreams you had of your future together. Just because he's no longer part of them, doesn't mean I can't still have what I dreamed of.
A lot of my friends are studying hard to better their present situations, putting in the work now preparing for the future and I feel like I've been neglecting that for a long time.
A lot of it comes from the reality of me just not knowing what I want out of life; and a situation one of my closest friends is going through has made me question how much importance I put on financial stability, career stability and overall 'SUCCESS' when all I want is to be happy, and in fact striving to achieve these things makes me unhappy… hmmmmmmm.
I found this interesting article on LinkedIn about being bored rather than busy, and this snippet made SO much sense:
"So many of us desperately want to feel alive—but instead, we’re left chasing our own tails, always hoping that this next thing will be the thing that saves us.
It’s sort of like what happens when you want something to eat, but you aren’t sure what. So you start by making yourself a sandwich, but soon realise that wasn’t it. So you go for some potato chips, but that wasn’t it. So you have a few spoonfuls of ice cream, but that wasn’t it. So you migrate to leftover spaghetti, but that doesn’t do the trick either. Now you’re onto a bag of marshmallows, but STILL NOT HITTING THE SPOT, and the more you eat, the more annoyed you get, because even though you’re stuffed you’re still craving that ONE THING and you don’t know what it is so you go ahead and HELP YOURSELF TO EVERY REFRIGERATOR!"
Love, in the romantic sense :)
Always top of my list and presently an area I'm not doing well in AT ALL
A place in the country
I'm only going to be able to own if I win the money, have it bought for me or cease having a social life for the rest of my days in order to save the money myself
To go on a Salsa holiday for a couple of weeks
Cuba, South America
To work for myself
Doing what, I've no idea yet :) to be brainstormed in 'What do I want: part two'
Family
And by that I mean one of my own; children, a husband/better half, family dog… eventually
They say life is what you make it and I think a lot of people make it about money & success, but to whose definition of the words?!
For me, if I manage to GET that cottage/house by the sea I'll know that I have definitely succeeded in something - who wouldn't be happy watching the sunset across the sea from their own garden?
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