What is your ultimate desire?

[Idlethought]

Or goal, however you wish to put it. After reading Bruce Lee's Jeet Kun Do, I'm feelin like my ultimate desire is to be a master of self. To have 360 degrees of knowledge of myself and to exhibit my ability in every aspect of my life.

....and yes I'm bored so whats yours? lol

[the_hdk]

pretty lame but to start or buy a football club...

kinda abramovic dream :p

[Idlethought]

A dream's a dream. To be the most successful man in the world is a dream, as well as eating cheescake on a friday lol. Dont give it up though.

[the_hdk]

A dream's a dream. To be the most successful man in the world is a dream, as well as eating cheescake on a friday lol. Dont give it up though.

I won't
no1 should

as Walt Disney once said
"If you can dream it, you can do it."

[Exclamatio]

my ultimate desire is salt n vinegar crisps

[NERD]

Do something before I retire off to Iceland.

[Soli]

Write a book.

[Chelsums]

My ultimate desire would probably be to finish the stories I started writing years ago but never finished. Damn you writer's block. Damn you to hell. :mad:

[Soli]

Writer's block sucks! :( You see the story there, but you just can't finish it. That's made me mad on occasion.

[stillbornsinger]

headline a world tour and be better than the band that is playing before us ;)

[Vic_Rattlehead]

My ambition/dream is to work for Nintendo, on bi-lingual support/localisation. It's one of the(out of 20+) reasons why I am doing a degree in Japanese(taking it step by step!). Which also bring along my interest in languages. I'd really like a job/career where I can display my language skills. Would be just amazing.

[rameek]

Idlethought
Or goal, however you wish to put it. After reading Bruce Lee's Jeet Kun Do, I'm feelin like my ultimate desire is to be a master of self. To have 360 degrees of knowledge of myself and to exhibit my ability in every aspect of my life.

....and yes I'm bored so whats yours? lol
Knowledge of self is simple by answering this question...
Who are you? Not what you do, what people see you as etc...

What part of NY are you from?

I really dont have an ultimate desire or goal

[dzee]

flash someone :D i don't know why that's in my head. but it sure is in there. either that, or be an exhibitionist. sometime, yes. try drugs. go wild. yay!

something more hm.. say, serious 'serious', though- to handle english, chinese, japanese and french fluently by the time i'm 25. travel the world :) die painlessly.

and for a soothing, down-to-earth one.. i'd like to sit by the sea with a slice of blackforest, a coffee bean blended sunrise, and koc playing in the background. preferably before the sunrise. :)

i'm such a dreamer, am i not?

[Exclamatio]

Knowledge of self is simple by answering this question...
Who are you? Not what you do, what people see you as etc...




yeah like thats a simple question :P

[rameek]

Exclamatio
yeah like thats a simple question :P
Its not the question thats the difficult its the answer people believe to be complicated ;) :D

The problems of life are not difficult its just the answers to those problems that makes it difficult.

[Idlethought]

Knowledge of self is simple by answering this question...
Who are you? Not what you do, what people see you as etc...

What part of NY are you from?

I really dont have an ultimate desire or goal

I dont know who I am yet lol

I'm from Elmont, New York. Its on long island.

[rameek]

Idlethough
I dont know who I am yet lol

I'm from Elmont, New York. Its on long island.
Yes you do know who you are... ;) You have a nice journey though... Many Many books you will read to come back to a simple answer grasshoppa...

I am from brooklyn.... :D

[Idlethought]

You know what thats the thing, I know the answer is gonna be something mindblowingly simple. Its just, and I hate to place the blame on anyone/where but myself, society tends to fill your head with what you should become and should do and when and where and why that you get so caught up in trying to please society you tend to forget about "well wait a minute, what do i want."

[Myrsilus]

Make a damn good living using my martial arts... And mastering all aspects of such a profession. Heh...

Seems quite unlikely that will happen, though.

[Idlethought]

You never know. My brother's friend makes a living as a martial arts instructor and so do the people down the street from me. Dont give up on that dream.

[Myrsilus]

I do want damn good money, though... Most instructors don't make the money I'd like.

[Idlethought]

take pride in your work and itll show off and eventually pay off. you just gotta stick to it and be diligent

[Myrsilus]

I'm going to college, so I am not going to waste that. I'll shape my future into a bright one there.

And instruction isn't what I would like to do.

[nothing]

I have a long distance relationship - I want to make it no distance, live with my girlfriend... and be happy ever after :)

[Idlethought]

I'm going to college, so I am not going to waste that. I'll shape my future into a bright one there.

And instruction isn't what I would like to do.

what would you like to do then that involves the martial arts? Mercenary? Modern Day Wanderer? lol

[Quartermaster]

I would like to own an office building in downtown New York, somewhere in the 60-story range. There wouldn't be a business or anything there (at the time of my move-in), it'd just be me. I would also like to not have to pay any taxes on it, and have enough money to buy awesome stuff for it.

[Myrsilus]

what would you like to do then that involves the martial arts? Mercenary? Modern Day Wanderer? lol
I dunno. I just don't want to be an instructor unless it pays considerably well.

[ozzmit]

The question people often end up facing is whether they want more autonomy in their lives or more power. Getting more of one always means you get less of the other. Being a writer is a job with tons of autonomy, for example, but with very little power. A writer has a lot of freedom, but most of them have very little money or influence. If they do get famous then suddenly people are more demanding of them and they lose much of their freedom, i.e. autonomy, but they gain more power over others. It's a sort of necessary trade off. But figuring out which is more important to you, autonomy or power, should help you figure out what kinds of lifelong goals are best for you to peruse now and in the future.

Personally, I would like to go to culinary school and study the art of making pastry. I do not want to become a famous chef, however, or even a chef in a famous restaurant because I prefer to have a lot of autonomy in my life. If I could make enough money to get by on making tasty, tasty pastries where I could work alone or with very few people demanding things of me, this would make me very happy.

[kensei]

Success. Not the bullshit spawned by being bombarded by the media's projections of what success, either. Self-assured success. Being able to wake up every day and not just think I'm feeding the U.S. economy while being a slave to the dollar. I don't want a fucking yacht. I want the type of success that brings peace-of-mind. And I want that, of course, with my beloved by my side.

[stillbornsinger]

flash someone :D i don't know why that's in my head. but it sure is in there. either that, or be an exhibitionist.

Anytime you are in need of a friend, I'm there for you... just let me know ;)

[Pierrot le Fou]

Happy Wife, 2 kids, grandkids, a house, a cozy retirement, and a Hell of a lot of bitchin' memories about when I was your age...

[akitaka]

Fujin: Instructors who make a lot of money generally commit way more to commercialism (ATA, XMA, any of the 2093840923 karate schools down the street) than their practice.

My capoeira instructor still needs sponsors to keep her school up; as of now, she teaches in a room rented at the local gym. As for my former wushu sifu, he did his schooling in his backyard. The exceptional iaido sensei was already wealthy as a college instructor, but later taught iaido full time as a passion (though since I joined and left, more than 30 students have gone under his wing, as opposed to the 3 he started with, my included).

Despite circumstances, teaching is still teaching, and busines is still business. College can make the financial road to committed teaching easier. Last time I recalled, my great uncle, who was a doctor (and wealthy) taught Kyu-do as a hobby, for free.

Unfortunatly, as honest and great a job as teaching is, I can't find myself doing it in the fact that I have trouble in explaining movements/reason.


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I don't believe that people really know what they ultimately want, or ever will, on account of ambigouity. If you're depressive in one day, and happy the next, your feelings of wants/needs change. It's a cycle that doesn't stop; if you're hungry, you'll want a tasty meal. Feeling alone? Probably something that has to do with romance/friendship.

That one movie, "Bruce Almighty", had basically stated the same thing.

Personally, in the way that I feel right now, my thoughts on my ultimate desire is the courage (not recklesness) to embrace my spontanious side.

Often I have a habit of clinging on to events and "reason"; which take the form small, crippling emotion-spots that attatch to the back of my mind. To dessipate these spots and run through my current life in a more stable, yet passionate manner would be rather wonderful.

[Idlethought]

I think teaching as a passion would be the ultimate display of mastery of an art. Thats something id want to do once im established though because I wouldnt want to be unsure in any way of what I'm teaching, and I'd want to teach it for free, or at least for a very very low price.

[Myrsilus]

The only people I want to teach, at the moment, are my future children and wife. Maybe a few others I feel like teaching... Other than that, no.

And yeah I know akitaka. I would not want to take the commercial route of martial arts instruction.

[fa11en87]

FBI? Police officer?

[akitaka]

Family is a good priority; heck, you might as well have been teaching you're own style to them exclusively...raising a troupe of future-ninjas is always braggable. Not to mention having a wife that could break bricks. Yeah, baby...

[Pierrot le Fou]

I teach English because I have mastered it.

This is a truism.

Disbelieve and I will burn you at the stake.

GEOS style.

With a pitchfork.

And an agry mob.

Quivering with Apathetic Anticipation,
- Pierrot "Witch Trials" le Fou

[Myrsilus]

Family is a good priority; heck, you might as well have been teaching you're own style to them exclusively...raising a troupe of future-ninjas is always braggable. Not to mention having a wife that could break bricks. Yeah, baby...
How dare you reveal my plans...

[erbiumfiber]

I'd like to work in dog and cat rescue. Which pays nothing. But then, I will soon be finished paying for high school and college for my daughter and I have quite a bit saved up so I could take a few years off.

In VA, the group I used to work with went to high-kill pounds in rural areas, and brought the dogs and cats up to Northern VA. They went to the Dog Ranch or to foster homes to get them in good shape for adoption. We then brought them to PetSmart on the weekends to meet potential adopters. I rehabilitated a German short-haired pointer that was 20 lbs underweight and a cute lab mix who had a bad case of kennel cough (not life-threatening but turns off potential adopters). I would have adopted the latter dog but I got the job in Tokyo...

I've always wanted to help stray cats and dogs. Maybe I should take a paying job at a low-kill animal shelter (yes, I do believe euthanasia is proper in the case of some really old or wounded animals with no quality of life).

I also wouldn't mind a job as a pet-sitter, dog-walker, etc.

It's gotta beat reading patents all day long... (which at least will have provided me with the financial resources to afford to take a low-paying but highly-satisfying job- I mean, sometimes my current job is satisfying, it's just after 20 years of reading and writing patents, well, it gets a little old-which is why I keep changing jobs and technologies- keeps it a little fresh at least).

[more cheerios]

To direct an Academy Award winning film. :)

[Loc]

To be a rockstar and have many memorable experiences.

[fa11en87]

To have fun in life and become fluent in spanish.

[Komachi Angel]

Don't believe in writer's block, guys. Just write, even if it isn't good, and it will come to you. Brainstorm - write down the problem in your story and then write 12 or so different possibilities, from wacky to practical. And never lose hope! I hope you do well. :)

[ShadowTiger]

my ultimate desire is salt n vinegar crispsConsider yourself lucky. :p Very few have their dreams so easily attainable. XD

Idlethough
I dont know who I am yet lol

I'm from Elmont, New York. Its on long island.I am from brooklyn.... Heh. Spiffy. ^_^ Nice to know so many people forum a forum live so close. :) That's usually very rare. I think I'm between the two places.


My Dreams can never be attained. They involve flight, and not via airplane. Icarian dreams can get you killed. Easily. Such a shame. =/

[Idlethought]

Holy shit howd you know my other tag name is Spiffy? What part of Long Island are you from?

[CrazyAce86]

My only goal in life is to survive for as long as I can.

[ShadowTiger]

@ IdleThought: lol, what? XD I had no idea. :p Seriously. (Though I will assume for my own sake that you're being jokingly sarcastic. I'm awkward like that ... )

I'm from Oceanside, nestled neatly between Rockville Center and Baldwin. I'm roughly Here (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=jfk+to+350+5th+ave,+new+york&ll=40.638121,-73.614836&spn=0.110385,0.222439&hl=en), if you can see that. o.o'


My only goal in life is to survive for as long as I can.... ... Wow. How the heck are you doing that? :o You're like, really succeeding there! ^_^ So awesome. lol.

[Idlethought]

yea when i play games Im either Spiff, Spiffy, or Mistaspiff