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02 May 2011, 4:02 pm

Hi everybody,

Since my life-threatening experiences with tumors, my priorities in life have shifted drasticly.
From just having fun, doing school and pursuing my special interests, I've gotten to surviving, looking for a mate and experiencing intimacy.
Perfectly understandable to have this shift, but definitly not volutary.

So my question to you is: What are your life priorities?


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02 May 2011, 4:15 pm

My priorities are simply to live my life with people who care about me, like friends and a boyfriend, having some projects that give me satisfaction, having an active inner life with always something to think about, and being at peace with myself. Unfortunately those are mostly out of my reach, as simple as they are.



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02 May 2011, 4:30 pm

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02 May 2011, 4:38 pm

I'm transgendered and transitioning, so one of my priorities is to live my life as my true self, even though it makes my parents uncomfortable. I lived for 26 years trying to make everyone else happy and that only resulted in misery for me.


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02 May 2011, 7:18 pm

Right now I'm
a) learning to manage stuff related to ASD,
b) keeping an eye open for my life's mission; what God wants me to do, and
c) learning how to get along with neurotypical people.


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02 May 2011, 8:01 pm

After I found out I had a life threatening illness my priorities shifted. I want less now...a simpler life. My priorities are taking care of my health, raising my child and being a loving wife. We don't have much materialistically but I am OK with that.



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03 May 2011, 4:38 am

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I'm transgendered and transitioning, so one of my priorities is to live my life as my true self, even though it makes my parents uncomfortable. I lived for 26 years trying to make everyone else happy and that only resulted in misery for me.


Me too, so trans stuff is definitely high on my priority list right now. But I'm really not interested in my family knowing anything about it.
Otherwise, I'm very work-focused as I figured that work is the linchpin that everything else hangs on. If you have a successful job you don't hate, you have enough money to live independently, pursue your interests, have a common standing with others, have enough money to go out, meet new people and learn new things, etc. So, work right now.



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03 May 2011, 4:55 am

1) survival
2) personal comfort
3) Finding a good partner
4) Finding good friends

I seem to be doing 1) quite well, and I'm not bad at 2).
3) and 4) keep going wrong. I should probably try to switch their order of priority so that finding good friends comes before finding a good partner, but that wouldn't alter the relative degree of craving.



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03 May 2011, 4:56 am

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03 May 2011, 9:42 am

I don't have any real priorities, and thats the problem.

I think I'm more concerned about being financially safe then being happy. But then being financially safe makes me happy in a way.......its like a game in a way....

I have no idea :?

I think right now it would be getting my health in check.


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