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[Shakeydave]

1. Maybe I'm a Sap!

However, I just spent a week in Las Vegas and I know what I don't want to do or become! BTW, we scored in a big way so it's not that we lost money that I hated Las Vegas! :thumbsdown: It really has to do with the Disney-fication of America!

[Bossy Monkey]

2. Mr. Robert Frost helpfully wrote it all out for me

Two Tramps In Mud Time

Out of the mud two strangers came
And caught me splitting wood in the yard,
And one of them put me off my aim
By hailing cheerily "Hit them hard!"
I knew pretty well why he had dropped behind
And let the other go on a way.
I knew pretty well what he had in mind:
He wanted to take my job for pay.

Good blocks of oak it was I split,
As large around as the chopping block;
And every piece I squarely hit
Fell splinterless as a cloven rock.
The blows that a life of self-control
Spares to strike for the common good,
That day, giving a loose my soul,
I spent on the unimportant wood.

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.

A bluebird comes tenderly up to alight
And turns to the wind to unruffle a plume,
His song so pitched as not to excite
A single flower as yet to bloom.
It is snowing a flake; and he half knew
Winter was only playing possum.
Except in color he isn't blue,
But he wouldn't advise a thing to blossom.

The water for which we may have to look
In summertime with a witching wand,
In every wheelrut's now a brook,
In every print of a hoof a pond.
Be glad of water, but don't forget
The lurking frost in the earth beneath
That will steal forth after the sun is set
And show on the water its crystal teeth.

The time when most I loved my task
The two must make me love it more
By coming with what they came to ask.
You'd think I never had felt before
The weight of an ax-head poised aloft,
The grip of earth on outspread feet,
The life of muscles rocking soft
And smooth and moist in vernal heat.

Out of the wood two hulking tramps
(From sleeping God knows where last night,
But not long since in the lumber camps).
They thought all chopping was theirs of right.
Men of the woods and lumberjacks,
The judged me by their appropriate tool.
Except as a fellow handled an ax
They had no way of knowing a fool.

Nothing on either side was said.
They knew they had but to stay their stay
And all their logic would fill my head:
As that I had no right to play
With what was another man's work for gain.
My right might be love but theirs was need.
And where the two exist in twain
Theirs was the better right--agreed.

But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For Heaven and the future's sakes.

[lilbub]

3. From someone who lives in Los Angeles,

one goal in my life is to go and bike ride in Central Park!
I went to New York city once (when the WTCs were still there) and a winter storm had occured just before I arrived.

Snow covered all of Central Park and it was sooo beautiful. I would love to go back during spring time and see New York again. That is definately one goal of mine.

Short term goal: change my current username to something that is a reflection of me.

[KCDem]

4. well, do your short-term goal soon,

before you rack up too many posts. Because, at that point, you won't want to start over! I'm a case in point: don't live in KC anymore. :shrug:

[lilbub]

6. I hear ya.

Right now I am hesitant to change but i will do so eventually.

[rbnyc]

5. To be creative...

...to honor the spirit of creativity by being creative myself and encouraging creativity in others. To be of service to others and to the earth. To experience as much as possible. To enjoy life. To contribute to the greater good.

:)

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[Rabrrrrrr]

7. To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me,

and to hear the lamentation of their women.

:-)

[sweetheart]

9. What's good in life.

"Conan the barbarian"

paraphrased from chingis khan appropriately.

The enemy is already crushed.... and on return to hobbiton, we discover the bushta's have taken over the old mill... ;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. HA HA HA HA!!

yes, Bushistas are like poor old Saruman, relegated to the role of bully pusing around smaller people and stealing their stuff and destroying all that is beautiful as well.


HA! Love it!!

(yes, from Conan - love it)

[Darranar]

11. Knowledge and intelligence...

doing my bit to help liberals after that, and celibacy finally. (Yep, I'm kind of aesthetic-no TV, no sex, etc, but hey, I use the internet, at least)

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. ascetic, perhaps? :-)

Though I've not seen a photo of you, you might also be rather aesthetic, so I can't say you aren't that!

[ForrestGump]

14. I'm both - how cool is that?

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful and live in a mountain cave.....

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. ForrestGump, the aesthetic ascetic aesthete!

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[Nikia]

13. Ive been thinking about this lately

I have many goals in this life. I've started to realize that I only have a limited time here. I'm 25. I've been rather ill these past several days and had one of those am I going to die from this moments. I don't want to die anytime soon because I've done so little and am no where near the person who I want to be. I was in bed telling my husband all this when my dog happily laid next to me. The dog has no worries about his life. It seems that he is happy loving his people. I thought, at that moment, perhaps that we had the right idea. Perhaps my main purpose in life should be to love those around me.

[ForrestGump]

15. To do whatever you tell me to, Drill Sergeant?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. To live it as fully as possible and suffer as little as possible

[Porcupine]

18. To do a "Miss Rumphious"

To leave a small improvement, and a smaller garbage heap.....I've planted cherry trees and rebuilt houses. I helped start an experimental housing project. Hopefully something I do will outlast me and be seen in a positive light.

Here's a great children's book about life goals.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140505393/002-5082890-9873603?v=glance

[LWolf]

21. I love the Lupine Lady.

When I left my job in the school library a decade ago to do my student teaching, a group of about 70 of my students from the library gathered to read this book to me. They told me they would miss me, but that I was going to make the world a better place.

I figured if they remembered when I shared the book with them, and came back to give it back to me, I already had.

[LWolf]

19. Other: to learn.

There are many other goals:

To walk lightly; to give back more than I take.

To help more than I hurt.

To laugh.

To live with joy.

To get the **** out of the city and back up in the hills where I belong.

To be a positive factor in my students' lives.

But first, foremost, and ultimate...to keep learning.

[Mari333]

20. To keep Breathing.

.

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. To truly, I mean truly, appreciate all that is good in my life, instead of

my usual habit of dwelling on the bad.

The love of my husband, who busts his A$$ everyday to keep us ahead of the wolves. Instead of dwelling on the fact that he is snoring right now, and isn't always the most romantic man in the world...

The joy my two children bring to my life. Warm morning hugs, giggles at the dinner table. Frisbee in the yard. Instead of eyerolling, mouthing off and never being quite ready to go when I am...

Good friends, who keep my head on straight...

Thanks for this post, I needed to think about things...

[Shanty Oilish]

23. To do God's will

Whatever that is :shrug:

[Porcupine]

24. Easier to do Dog's will.

and usually a lot more fun. Dog want's to go for a walk and have somebody throw sticks in the creek. Then take a nap.

Sounds good to me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. You haven't met my Dog...

she would have me toss tennis ball 8,965,243 times and still not get tired. She would sleep right on my face everynight, and would much rather prefer it if I left the bed to her altogether. Dog's will can be hard sometimes...

[Too Smart To Fight]

26. Personnal fullfillment,

Doing what I want.

[Ein]

27. Other: Figure out God.

Or no-God, I guess. Find out what is right, if the scriptures of religions are real, and what is the right path.

Of course, thats impossible... I guess I'd like to change the world for the better. Of course, according to my GOP gramps that is impossible so I should stop reading/studying and work on schmoozing my way up the ladder at my HMO.