Your Dream?

[Taylirious]

I was hoping to get inspiration from this thread. I think I am broken. My current dream is to wake up from this nightmare.

I am happy for those that achieved their goals and have plans that should work out.

 

[Amaris]

I was hoping to get inspiration from this thread. I think I am broken. My current dream is to wake up from this nightmare.

I am happy for those that achieved their goals and have plans that should work out.

I wish I knew what to tell you to make you feel better, to give you the right key to the right door that will open up your life to greater possibilities. I truly wish I had that key to hand you.

All I can think to say right now is to never stop trying new doors. This life is the only one we have, the only one that counts. Don't give up, don't stop trying, because there are no other chances than the ones we find here and now, and the only way you're going to do so is to keep going.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

I was hoping to get inspiration from this thread. I think I am broken. My current dream is to wake up from this nightmare.

I am happy for those that achieved their goals and have plans that should work out.

What you seem to have missed is that most of us haven't achieved our youthful goals (or at least all of them), but we've still found satisfaction in our lives -- even if it's required bouncing back from crisis after crisis. No reason you can't.

 

[Amaris]

I was hoping to get inspiration from this thread. I think I am broken. My current dream is to wake up from this nightmare.

I am happy for those that achieved their goals and have plans that should work out.

What you seem to have missed is that most of us haven't achieved our youthful goals (or at least all of them), but we've still found satisfaction in our lives -- even if it's required bouncing back from crisis after crisis. No reason you can't.

I do empathize with TayLaLaLa, though. From where I sit, and likely from where he sits, the odds of finding happiness in life seem almost insurmountable. I tackle it from a point of optimism, while I think he is overwhelmed by it (forgive me if I misrepresent you, Tay).

Even in my optimism, things feel bleak, cold, hopeless, empty, lonely. I just try my best to overcome it. I know it has to hurt for him, too.

 

[Pondwater]

Even in my optimism, things feel bleak, cold, hopeless, empty, lonely. I just try my best to overcome it.

Bingo! I would say more but yeah this sums it up.

 

[Taylirious]

I am in therapy and taking medication. I just want to be happy. I also hope that my current dreams don't seem so impossible.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Well there ya go, two huge steps! Good on you Tayla, glad you were able to access those things

 

[Tora Ziyal]

J. Allen and Pondwater, sorry if I sounded like I don't understand at all where TayLa is coming from (I do), or like I think that all of us here are satisfied with where we have ended up in life (I don't). I only mean that not achieving one's youthful goals doesn't necessarily keep one from being relatively happy. Sometimes it does; sometimes it doesn't. Hugs to both of you.

I am in therapy and taking medication....

Excellent. And a hug for you.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

And I thought it a good point that Hijol said..

I got my DreamWish for a while, but people in a relationship change

Life does keep changing and achieving your dreams is no guarentee of happiness or satisfaction. You have to keep dreaming every day, and finding positives and forward momentum in your life wherever you happen to be with it.

 

[Taylirious]

Everyone has been wonderful so no worries.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I am in therapy and taking medication. I just want to be happy. I also hope that my current dreams don't seem so impossible.

That's great to hear. We want you to be happy, too.

I only mean that not achieving one's youthful goals doesn't necessarily keep one from being relatively happy.

Life is what happens while you're making other plans.

 

[Smellincoffee]

The girl I wanted to have a family in the leafy suburbs with has been married to someone else for nine years, and my opinion of the suburbs is on par with Jim Kunstler's. That was the extent of my 'dream' in high school, to have a normal, ordinary little family that went to museums and youth league soccer teams. Boring? Sure, but I grew up in a Protestant sect that wanted desperately to be a cult. Normality was my dream. Now my dream is to own a little piece of land big enough for a small cabin with a big garden.

 

[Surfin' Santa]

In my mid-teens, I had a vague notion of attending Art Center College of Design and becoming an automotive designer. Then reality reared its ugly head -- I realized I didn't have the talent.

So, upon graduation from high school, my main ambition was to build model spaceships and jerk off a lot. Come to think of it, I haven't changed much in 44 years.