Fulfilment in life.

0000879k

What would it take for you to die happy? Climbing a mountain? Success in your career? Riding a particular man/woman etc

TEMPLAR KNIGHT

Snu snu

galwayrush

A steady income.

Pottler

Heart attack while being tickled by Claudia Schiffer?

Witchie

Knowing my sons were happy, in jobs they enjoyed and with a loving partner that made them happy.

admiralofthefleet

lady gaga sitting on me face

The King of Moo

Feeling that I'd added more to the world than I'd taken away, and enjoyed myself for most of my life.

I don't like to set very specific goals in life. I hate the idea of "a bucket list:" it just seems to make things so mundane, and reduce fulfillment to ticking a few boxes, and performing certain tasks, rather than anything more ephemeral.

I think it's best to try to enjoy yourself as much as you can within your own moral framework, and try to do some good within that framework.

biko

Mo' monies

BillyMitchel

Mila Kunis's finger up my bum.

alb

It's a moving target, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow_hierarchy_of_needs

Internet Hero

just have good mates and happy parents is all i want. nice holidays too the odd time would be good ha

Youssef Chippo

Ridin' Indy from Home and Away

tuxy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hikLjcwFdD8

El Weirdo

0000879k wrote: »

What would it take for you to die happy? Climbing a mountain? Success in your career? Riding a particular man/woman etc

How about you, OP? What would it take for you to be happy?

admiralofthefleet

Youssef Chippo wrote: »

Ridin' Indy from Home and Away

dem eyes

ctrl-alt-delete

Winning an oscar for riding Scarlett Johansson up a mountain would do it for me.

Where To

Philip was that drunk his words made no sense.

Who knows what full Phil meant.

old hippy

Coming and going at the same time.

Hooked

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

Youssef Chippo wrote: »

Ridin' Indy from Home and Away

dem eyes

DAT ASS!!!

Indigo Walker aka Samara Weaving... Mmmmmm

Romeo you fool!

shopaholic01

old hippy wrote: »

Coming and going at the same time.

That would be more fulfillment in death :pac:.

Halloran springs

Riding a particular man/woman etc

old hippy

shopaholic01 wrote: »

That would be more fulfillment in death :pac:.

Alright, being able to speak and understand every language on the planet.

Stained Class

Being realistic about things in general.

Don't base your life around 'celebs'..

Not all of us can play for Man Utd or sing like Lady GaGa......

Oh...& always wear sunscreen.:cool::cool:

0000879k

El Weirdo wrote: »

How about you, OP? What would it take for you to be happy?

I wanna travel, have a nice wife, play soccer for as long as possible and run a marathon, ideally.
But at the end of the day, I'd be happy with good friends that I can have a laugh with and a nice wife.

Fromthetrees

I want life ,
I want a house and a wife.

christ on a bike!

enough for a decent holiday once a year, a decent car, a comfy gaf with a garden, no major financial panic attacks should I impregnate the quare one and a slight smile on my face in the mornings of contentment
some might think it boring but i wouldn't, considering the alternatives

Dockington

My 72 virgins awaiting me in paradise. BOOM

keith16

Sometimes I feel like I want to take a risk and start my own business. But life feels like it's too short for taking risks like that?

Greentopia

Being true to myself and living life on my terms according to my own principals and beliefs as far as possible is pretty important to me. Not compromising myself just to please others or to fit in.

To achieve the most important things in life for me-to reach my goals with my work, to value and appreciate my friends and family, to have my eco/crafts-community in the country I've always dreamed of, to always keep learning new skills and educating myself, to travel to the places I really want to see. To have someone or some people I can grow old with.

Also to learn at least 2 more foreign languages, and finally learn to play the piano dammit! :mad:
And to fall in love again. Preferably with Colin Firth or Ralph Fiennes

ArtSmart

keith16 wrote: »

Sometimes I feel like I want to take a risk and start my own business. But life feels like it's too short for taking risks like that?

if ur serious, u must consider the WPS only. (Worst Possible Scenario)

if you can handle that, then go for it.

(WPS ranges from losing your house, to being embarrassed by failure - so if you can handle your personal WPS, you can't lose)

ArtSmart

Greentopia wrote: »

Being true to myself and living life on my terms according to my own principals and beliefs as far as possible is pretty important to me. Not compromising myself just to please others or to fit in.

To achieve the most important things in life for me-to reach my goals with my work, to value and appreciate my friends and family, to have my eco/crafts-community in the country I've always dreamed of, to always keep learning new skills and educating myself, to travel to the places I really want to see. To have someone or some people I can grow old with.

Also to learn at least 2 more foreign languages, and finally learn to play the piano dammit! :mad:
And to fall in love again. Preferably with Colin Firth or Ralph Fiennes

em shouldn't they be falling for you...?

ArtSmart

0000879k wrote: »

What would it take for you to die happy? Climbing a mountain? Success in your career? Riding a particular man/woman etc

Aint no clear formula. not for no one.

there really isn't.

thankfully.

Nodin

0000879k wrote: »

What would it take for you to die happy? Climbing a mountain? Success in your career? Riding a particular man/woman etc

Crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

tuxy

Nodin wrote: »

Crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

Sounds like a paraphrase of Genghis Khan

Nodin

tuxy wrote: »

Sounds like a paraphrase of Genghis Khan

As it is, it should.

Internet Hero

tuxy wrote: »

Sounds like a paraphrase of Genghis Khan

it is conan the librarian

Greentopia

ArtSmart wrote: »

em shouldn't they be falling for you...?

If I met them I mean. Lurve has to be a two way street though of course. And naturally they'd fall for me if they met me...in my dreams :pac: :rolleyes:

keith16

ArtSmart wrote: »

if ur serious, u must consider the WPS only. (Worst Possible Scenario)

if you can handle that, then go for it.

(WPS ranges from losing your house, to being embarrassed by failure - so if you can handle your personal WPS, you can't lose)

Am I embarrassed by failure? No.

Does WPS extend to me possibly ending up somehow setting myself ablaze? Possibly. :pac:

That's acutally good advice, thank you ArtSmart

tuxy

Internet Hero wrote: »

it is conan the librarian

You mean a bit like the video link I put on the first page?

Anyway

GENGHIS KAHN: THE EMPEROR OF ALL MEN, pages 106-107:

One day in the pavilion at Karakorum he [Genghis Kahn] asked an officer of the Mongol guard what, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness.

"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."

"Nay," responded the Kahn, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet -- to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."

hawkwind23

i dont think its defined in any one thing for each individual
i was drawn to this thread by the mention of maslows hierarchy of needs.
i was told i failed in my thesis to "define" management by using maslow and subsequent and previous pioneers to highlight that the ideal of management as fluid and based in psychology of ones self and peers , I.E. a mere systematic thought process to define a period of a varied range of emotion.
therefore i equate such a temporal form such as happiness in a similar vein , science and system may offer a suggestion as to what "happiness" may be or indeed how it may be obtained.
but the cynic in me would favor that such a bizarre concept of "happiness" would be fodder for the masses in the realms of media and advertising.

a modern day snake oil for those of an disposition not to embrace the wonder of a rounded and earned lifestyle.

one may be excused for saying more money than sense , or perhaps no sense at all in the failure to understand the most basic of human emotion.

chill out OP , the one thing i can tell you is that you cant take it with you when you go.

Bobo78

To see two girls one cup.

ArtSmart

Bobo78 wrote: »

To see two girls one cup.

if that doesn't clarify the definition of fulfilment for you, nothing will.

Bobo78

:D:D:P:P:P

kowloon

hawkwind23 wrote: »

the one thing i can tell you is that you cant take it with you when you go.

But I'll die trying...

ArtSmart

hawkwind23 wrote: »

chill out OP , the one thing i can tell you is that you cant take it with you when you go.

What? you never seen the Viking Chieftain/ Egyptian Pharaohs/ Chinese Emperor burial habits???

Peetrik

Do more good than harm for the environment.
Be a positive, supportive influence in the lives of my friends and family.
Be happy.

FanadMan

Have sex with a woman that doesn't say something like "Well, if you have to......just get it over with"

Wee Willy Harris

Don't care for what's in me belly...

Don't care for what's in me 'ed.

Don't care for what's on the telly...

I want a bigger willy instead.