What are your goals for life?

[Caius]

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senior membership

I have that goal.

[Andres]

Getting my masters degree -- check
Marry a lovely, nice, cute, loving and caring girl -- check
Enjoying a good beer with good friends every now and then -- check
Finding the perfect job -- defintely on the right track
two or three kids -- in progress

This song
and the title of this song being the truth at the end of my life.

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Fank Sinatra - My Way
Edith Piaff - Je ne regrette rien

[IrishArmenian]

Andres, My Way is my favorite Frank Sinatra song.

[Fisherking]

Faster Horses!

Younger Women!

Older Whiskey!

More Money!

Been There, Done That, Got the T-shirt!

[Duke Malcolm]

Well, to go to Edinburgh and study either Chemistry or Medicine for 4, 5, 6, or 7 years.

If it's Medicine, I suppose I'll become a doctor, perhaps try and join the Royal Naval Medical Service or the Royal Army Medical Corps (not the RAF...)

If it's Chemistry, I'll wait and see... Either a PhD somewhere nice, or the Diplomatic Service, or endeavour for the Queen's Commission into a nice (Heavy) Cavalry Regiment or the Royal Navy...

[Samurai Waki]

Well I've gotten the financial end taken care of. So that does it as far as a good 90% of goals go...

I guess watch my daughters grow up, give bits and pieces of advice where it's necessary, and have as much fun as I can before my fatal spilunking accident when I turn 38.

[JimBob]

Live fast, die old, and leave a worn out corpse

[Kralizec]

Become a politician, then plunge the nation into the biggest political crisis it has ever seen. They'll remember ME!

[Caius]

Become a politician, then plunge the nation into the biggest political crisis it has ever seen. They'll remember ME!

lol

[Incongruous]

Well, finish my law degree in Human rights, join Amnesty International, maybe some other kind of peace corp. Specifically in Palestine.

Not sure after that, of course in the immediate future I'm gonna play more gigs, get more drunk, get more girls, get more posts on this damnable forum and maybe, one day in the far future I'll get to 1000!

[naut]

My goal in life is to live. With all meaning of the word. I seek to Live. To experience everything I can before the inevitable. To see everything I can before the end of it. To leave this world at least better then when I entered.

Well said.

[caravel]

Well I had almost achieved my goal. I was living the simple life with down to earth people in simple surroundings away from the mayhem of city life, in another part of the world. Unfortunately I had to make sacrifices, so I'm back in the city again, and thus playing totalwar games, using a pc and posting here again. So I suppose my eventual goal is to return to that life again.

[Andres]

Andres, My Way is my favorite Frank Sinatra song.

Always nice to see a man with an excellent taste

Become a politician, then plunge the nation into the biggest political crisis it has ever seen. They'll remember ME!

Just what we needed, another Dutch politician...

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Begin maar al te werken aan je Harry Potter-looks. Ben je al een beetje stijf en kleinburgerlijk?

[Yun Dog]

None.

Just want to sit around, watch the grass grow, and ponder the shapes of the clouds floating overhead..

ditto

finding ways to be happy and stay positive in an ever more negative world

[Beren Son Of Barahi]

I want to take as many pictures as i can, of as many places as i can, to inspire as many people as i can, and to do it all the time. i want to effect other people, in any way i can, get them to think and enjoy this world we are on.

I would love to open a orphanage in Timor Leste' (East Timor)... if only i had the courage.

As for how i want to live, see my sig, it's what i try to live by.

Become a Doctor.
Travel the world a bit-the first goal should help with this, if I can achieve it, as I would really like to do some aid work, join medicins sans frontieres for a couple of years.

Having seen the work these amazing people do, i can not think of a more noble cause or pursuit in life.

[JAG]

Just live.

We shall see where things fall, as Sartre said, no need or even such a thing as long term planning, so that will do me!

[Somebody Else]

I want to live forever!

...

So far, so good...

[naut]

[GoreBag]

I'm with Beirut. I have no plans that aren't frivolous.

[yesdachi]

Be a good father (and husband).

Get paid what I am worth.

Finish a campaign of M2TW.

I will probably only achieve one of the three.

[macsen rufus]

With no goals I've managed to: visit every continent bar antarctica, gone scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef, cycled down a volcano in Hawai'i, caught an interesting disease or two in Latin America, been attacked by pirates, crossed the equator three times on board ships (any other shellbacks will know what THAT entails ), got a degree, worked for an ex-spy, been on the wrong end of a water cannon, committed serial and parallel adultery (), planted over 1000 trees, been a certified organic grower, been a government advisor, raised 2 step-kids and kept pigs, bees and chickens, met Desmond Tutu, watched whales in the southern ocean, seen the "green flash" at dusk over fresh caiparinhas, and been at the helm of a 2000 tonne vessel entering Istanbul, Valetta, London and Cape Town. I HAVE changed the world, but not single-handedly.

I always chose the random outcome of chance over a planned-out ambition, because that produces more exciting results. If I'd followed a plan I'd have made more money, maybe married and had my own kids, and would be old, tired, bored and lacklustre well before my time, having seen and achieved nothing of any note.

Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it.

[Kralizec]

Just what we needed, another Dutch politician...

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Begin maar al te werken aan je Harry Potter-looks. Ben je al een beetje stijf en kleinburgerlijk?

Of course not. This guy (see below) is my role model

[Redleg]

Watching my children grow and develop into being men.

One almost done

The otherone halfway there.

[yesdachi]

Watching my children grow and develop into being men.

One almost done

The otherone halfway there.

I’ve been told (by my wife) that boys never grow up.

[Samurai Waki]

Ms. Waki has an obsession that our twins will be babies forever, and I have told her repeatedly that they will grow up, she still doesn't believe me.

[Redleg]

I’ve been told (by my wife) that boys never grow up.

Well in the case of my oldest she could be right - 21 years old and still clueless on life and responsiblity regardless of my best and worst efforts.

But he finally found a trade that he enjoys for now - heating and Air Conditioning Repair and Instal. In Texas that is a good trade to have.

Now my other son - who is 14 will probably learn faster.

[Andres]

Of course not. This guy (see below) is my role model

On the other hand, it could have been worse...




Michel Daerden

Belgian politicians

[yesdachi]

Well in the case of my oldest she could be right - 21 years old and still clueless on life and responsiblity regardless of my best and worst efforts.

But he finally found a trade that he enjoys for now - heating and Air Conditioning Repair and Instal. In Texas that is a good trade to have.

Now my other son - who is 14 will probably learn faster.

My uncle did it for years in Oklahoma (the weather kept him busy too) and really liked it, but he did have some fun people to work with and that always helps, Hope your son does too!

Now the 14 year old is only a short ways away from driving and that is a true step towards manhood.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

successful military career
write 2 sucessfull books
win a tournment on Total War
Get a Masters in History or something I like
Get a Army Tank
Get a Castle
Get a Sword
Get a Black hawk Helicopter

[KukriKhan]

At age 56, I remember 35 years ago, wanting to be a combination of Ralph Nader, F. Lee Bailey, and Bob Woodward. Defender of the defenseless, exposer of evil, documentor of incompetence. Got started on that path, but then life happened.

Now, I'm Cliff Clavin, with a hobby as a gamer fansite Moderator.

LoL. Life: that which actually happens while you pursued other plans.

Now, I value: the respect of my peers and grandchildren. The steady affection of a good woman. Work that seems to make a difference, however small.

And good beer :urp: :)

p.s. don't get me wrong, I'm not bitter about not having become a celebrated Nader/Bailey/Woodward hybrid. Rather, I like to think I've distilled the 'essence' of those guys (and others) over time, and try to apply that to where ever I find myself tossed by fate.

Adaptability. I highly recommend our younger guys train for it. Learn a profession (M.D, Law, Science) if you can; but also a trade (truck driver, brick-layer...), and don't be afraid of physical labour (lettuce-picker...). You may need all those in the next 50 years.