Future Plans in Life for Everybody

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What is everybodies future plans or project that they'd like to done someday?
Personally I'd like to do the following in no particular order:

Write a book about onwer-built houses similar to Ken Kern's
Write a book about myself
Build a sailboat
Build a new telescope
See the Meteor Crater in Arizona
Meet a few of the peolple who post here
Go back to college
Build a Tesla Coil
Get my motorcycle finished
Get a license plate on my Jeep
Become less of a hooligan and be more civilized and refined.

Well I'm currently sitting at the computer desk eating burger rings and watching as the seconds tick by. I don't bother to set future plans or goals, it only leads to disappointment. I simply take things as they come day by day. For example, tomorrow I must force myself to go to my counseling (spelling?) appointment. Simple, easy goals.

My list:

Find a companion or gf
Finish university
Learn Japanese
Start a business, a sucessful one
learn to enjoy life more
make some friends
learn to be more normal when it is required
have some people I know to talk to
have more to talk about, so I am not repeating the same loop over and again

No plans.
No failures.
No dissappointments.

go back to school and study engineering
build a houseboat
get a big traditional Japanese tattoo on my back
get rich
travel to each and every place in the world, excluding jungles and deserts and swamps and not cool places like that
write a book/film script
learn to drive and to make sushi
learn Portugese, Japanese and Arabic

Buy a house
Get a second dog
Have a nice, loving, supportive, and passionate relationship with a man. Either my current husband if we can fix it or someone else someday.
Religious goals I won't really go into as no one cares

I want to be a computer game designer, but I am only 14 so it won't be happening for a while.

Somebody once said that "If you're not making mistakes then you're not doing anything" and this is extremely true in life. There are no assurances that anything we attempt will ever work out right but for me it's never been an idea to reach the end of something. The results have no meaning to me. It's the process I find rewarding. I've spent years on special obsessions only to find out in the end that an idea was worthless. No big deal. Just go on to the next obsession. If you don't keep you mind busy it will eventually just stop thinking, kind of like having your dick fall off when you're walking down the street one day. Dickless and mindless, at least for guys, are similar situations.

*hi5's*

Quite the visual analogy. I'm rather fond of my dick, though.

Oh, all right. Imma post this just once. Here are things I would really, really like to do. I won't try any of them because that way I won't be dissappointed when/if I fail at achieving them (and spare me the lecture on "you get what you go for". I've heard it all before.):

I want to build a house from recycled shipping containers and pre-fab components.
I want to have a secondary home/studio in a houseboat.
I want to start selling my art, not just give it away.
I want to do MORE art.
I want to go back to school and finish this time.
I want to write a book on my creative life.
I want to improve my photographic skills.
I want to break through into national publications, not just local ones.

I want, I want, Iwant. My mother would say I'm so selfish.

*Get through college
*Get a great job
*Get married
*Move out and get a nice house
*Have kids
*Above all, enjoy life to the fullest!

hay mate. this is one of the issues directed at me in my career. process and moment is everything. the bliss of hyperfoucs is what it is about. in fact, it is thrown at me in many areas of my life. i'll stop things when i lose interest...not because i have to get teh approval of others. the dick thing does not apply to me.

as for thing i want to do (complete or incomplete:)

get to spain to look at the art from there. gott be my favourite stuff.
travel around australia in a grey nomad van with my boys- on the move....the drving is better than the destinations.
overcome the fear of what other people think of me when they meet me. (some think i am weird. it upsets me.)
hang out in india again for a while.
go back up to cape york to paint. (that is happening.)
write my book which is languishing in the nether reaches of some drawer somewhere. been inspired by gary's work.
pursue my special interests free from pressure.
paint like camilla
accept the fact that my sense of who i am is a series of pronounced fragmentations that is not akin to a typical "self".
re-learn italian
do a series of works on the Divine Comedy.
Write poetry again.
write more short stories.
meet other people as weird as me.
get "the Border Group" of artists up and running.
make some frigging money again.


the liste goes on

Well I don't have any future "plans" per say. Not that anyone cares. I'm posting this cause I feel like it. Just things I wanna do with my life.....aw whatever. Call it future plans. Hmmm..I want to...

be a cartoonist/comic book artist/graphic designer(either one. Preferably where I don't have to deal with a lot of people).
Learn several different languages.

Study traditional Okinawan karate and Japanese aikijujutsu(or aikido).

Maybe study Zen Buddhism.

Do some traveling to different countries (if I ever get up the muster to do so).

Have a wife (NO KIDS...EVER!).

Live a quiet life and make the most out of this cold, cruel world.

But for now, I'm going to loaf around, finish college one day at a time, try and forge up the courage to learn ro drive. And hope that nothing terrible will happen that will prevent me from the things I want...of course it will also depend on my attitude.

Last edited by Presto77 on 08 Jan 2009, 4:53 pm, edited 3 times in total.

I don't know what the female equivalent is to being dickless and mindless. Maybe that's why girls are always smarter.

I think that is the same as my list would be dumbed down a bit and less specific. All of those things are definitly things I want.

i'll have a think about it.. and get back to you on that one.