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What is your goal in life?

To be a rock star?

  • To look like a beautiful 18-year-old your whole life?

    Votes: 7 4.1%
  • To be stinking rich?

    Votes: 16 9.5%
  • Peace of mind

    Votes: 93 55.0%
  • To be a powerful leader

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • To find the love of your life

    Votes: 25 14.8%
  • To surrender constantly to something greater than myself

    Votes: 14 8.3%
  • To be a published author

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • To be a movie star

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • To write a cookbook called "A thousand carrot recipes"

    Votes: 6 3.6%
  • To own a burrito parlor

    Votes: 12 7.1%
  • Abolish tuna noodle casserole

    Votes: 10 5.9%
  • To settle down and raise a family

    Votes: 17 10.1%
  • To be part of a community

    Votes: 30 17.8%
  • other

    Votes: 42 24.9%

  • Total voters
    169
What would achieving your goal look like.

I answered the tuna noodle one, because that’s a crime.

Honestly I don’t even know anymore. I live to work, I support my family and want to increase our comfort and means any way possible, I want my kids to grow up happy and healthy and not worry but I hardly work on myself at all or socialize outside of music, and sometimes just feel like such a wreck. I truly don’t have a goal for myself and I’m just kind of realizing that now.
 
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I answered the tuna noodle one, because that’s a crime.

Honestly I don’t even know anymore. I live to work, I support my family and want to increase our comfort and means any way possible, I want my kids to grow up happy and healthy and not worry but I hardly work on myself at all or socialize outside of music, and sometimes just feel like such a wreck. I truly don’t have a goal for myself and I’m just kind of realizing that now.
Yogi Berra one of the great philosophers of the 20th century once said, "If you don't know where you are going, you might not get there." :D
 
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To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women. :bored:
You Beat me to it…This quote was in my mind.
Excellent movie
 
I don't care about looking young. I'd like a lot of money. Peace of mind would be nice. Don't wanna lead. Finding a girl I like would be nice. Not surrendering to anything. Don't wanna write. Don't wanna act. Don't want a family. Don't wanna be part of a community (I don't wanna disrupt one either, but I prefer to keep to myself.) Carrots and burritos and tuna noodle casserole are good.
We can be friends, after we finish our Star Trek fight.
 
but but but..... 😍 😋

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To consistently live my faith. Everything else hangs on that.

I’ll second that.


…I also love tuna noodle casserole and carrots so I’d probably find a way to get rich from selling burritos made with them. Then I could write a cookbook (because I would be a famous chef) and obviously someone would want to make a movie about it, because the little guy made a life on tuna casserole burritos... Of course I would be in a community (selling my burritos) where I could meet the love of my life and be the leader of our family we’re raising and I think all that would really give me peace of mind. So, I answered “other” 😉
 
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I love tuna noodle casserole.
I'm diabetic. Which has a silver lining in certain situations - as nobody (at least among those who aren't diabetic) really knows what the diet of a diabetic should be, it's a culinary get out of jail free card. Actually, anything with pasta or egg noodles is definitely off my list, but if there's something at a family gathering that I really don't like...it's "off my list", and nobody questions it.

I can eat pretty much everything within a burrito (unless there's rice), but the tortilla is a no go. I also have the freedom to pull the toppings off the pizza crust and eat them by themselves (pepperoni rolled in cheese with a bit of sauce is heaven), which I think a lot of people would love to do, but don't have the guts....or the excuse.
 
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I’ll second that.


…I also love tuna noodle casserole and carrots so I’d probably find a way to get rich from selling burritos made with them. Then I could write a cookbook (because I would be a famous chef) and obviously someone would want to make a movie about it, because the little guy made a life on tuna casserole burritos... Of course I would be in a community (selling my burritos) where I could meet the love of my life and be the leader of our family we’re raising and I think all that would really give me peace of mind. So, I answered “other” 😉
this guy tuna casseroles.
 
Found the love of my life and I have a family and I cannot fold a proper burrito to save my life.

But I would like to be a powerful but merciful dictator.

Bjork would write our national anthem. It would be glorious and just a little weird. I would make it illegal for anyone in front of me to use their turn signal. I would outlaw sandal use by men, penalty would be banishment to a treeless island. Not the kind of island that has tiki bars. I would also randomly reward people who move out of the fast land in front of me with valuable cabinet positions. My security force would have an elite and very well dressed detail of assassins who would visit live music venues and usher away people whose amps are not loud enough to ring eardrums. They would be placed in a rehabilitation center where they would listen to Paul Anka until they learn to rebel by playing loud guitar oriented rock. Senior members of said official security service would be trained to identify non-standard tunings, "A440 Hertz or You Hurts Worse" would be a motto printed on currency. Taco Tuesday would, of course, be law of the land. But I'd introduce Etou-Friday and any variety of Cajun food would be enforceably enjoyed. "Funny saying" T shirts would empower any citizen to spend 3 days in a cage with tigers out of my goodwill. White New Balance male nurse shoes would be allowed in senior living facilities but could not be worn elsewhere. Football season would be 46 weeks. Baseball season would only have 80 games. And the plate and base officiating would be AI. The Hawks would win the basketball championship every year but they wouldn't win every game so I could be surprised when it happens. Citizens can listen to Lumineers with headphones at low volume. Failure to use headphones for Lumineers would result in the 3-day tiger cage thing. That also applies to members of the Lumineers, they'd be free to express themselves in anechoic chamber purpose-built to contain them. Kate Bush would be cloned so there would be a new Kate Bush and a new Kate Bush album every year forever. I'd send flowers to everyone on their birthday, I would not forget your birthday. My government would have a ministry of tort and we would have real tort reform including red or blonde flecks at your preference. IKEA would have straight aisles and doors on all 4 sides of the building. All dogs would have a safe and loving home. My nation shall be named Olive Garden just as an inside joke but I might rename it after a few glorious years. You would all be welcomed as long as you adhere to the rules.
 
This one Bakery up North made one kind of bread, flour salt water and yeast, and people lined up everyday to buy their fresh baked bread, that'd be kind of cool... AND you wouldn't be all worn out at the end of the day then you could work out on some bass and maybe play in a piano quartet a couple times a week... perfect.