5 Things You Would Do

[quote]Renton wrote:
My choices would have to include that Jamie Eaton chick I heard about somewhere.

Other than that, I’ve done most things anyway.

I’d spend the time revisiting old friends, travelling even more, time alone under the stars in the Scottish mountains, everthing I do now anyway.

Why wait until you have a death sentance hanging over your head to do the things you want to? That’s just dumb.[/quote]

Well renton most people are so worried about “tomorrow” or “next year” that they forget about today and now.
For most people the weekend the be and end all of their excitement and the weekdays are just a drag.
Is that living ?
I dont know, i suppose i have been granted the position of seeing things from another perspective, when someone puts a timelimit on your biological clock all of a sudden what seemed to be HUGE important worries fade into the distance.
I mean for christs sake at 24 i had opened a PENSION plan !
Instead i could have gone travelling SIGH!
I wish i had your way of doing things earlier, but its never too late.

[quote]Corkonian wrote:
I mean for christs sake at 24 i had opened a PENSION plan !
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As you ought.

There is a mean between living exclusively for the moment and resigning oneself entirely to labor for future living.

Realistically, people want to do all kinds of things - but they do not want to simultaneously sacrifice what it would take to have those things. I would like to not work and to study all the time; but I also want to own a house and possess nice things.

If you never want to get married or raise a family, or if you have some privileged knowledge that you will not make it past old age, then it is foolish to invest energy toward those goals. Live as you want. I wonder how, even with that knowledge, I would be able to finance the things I would like to do (such as traveling) without any income.

Of course, if one had skill, one could be industrious for a brief period, invest shrewdly, make enough money to live on, and do as one liked.

But the fatal flaw in all of these scenarios is that they treat only one side of the equation: what you do not have now, that you wish you did, without remembering the things you have now, that you want, and that would not be maintainable without the life you currently lead.

Scuba diving with my father in law (as long as I had time to learn it)

Road trip to Alaska

Tell my brother how much of an asshole he’s been in our relationship, and how much I miss him

Cuddle more with the hubby

Two things came to mind… half of the things I thought of I can do anyway. (#4 is easy, #3 goes through constant revisions in my head. Do I be kind, or do I just say it like I see it? Anyway…) Also, the things that I want to do that would be fun, disregarding having to be “responsible,” would make me feel guilty because if I knew I were going to die I’d realistically feel obligated to go back home to my family, which would be like living in a morgue crossed with a psych ward, while I’d just want to have fun and enjoy the time I had left.

#1 and #2 are definitly a tie. I want a three some and I want to go sky diving.
#3 Punch my father in the face for the way he acts towards everyone, hand him a bunch of Atomic Dogg articles and tell him to rethink his failure at manhood. Probably tell him that he wasn’t my father in my eyes (nor was anyone else except GOKU!) by the time I was 13 and he was most certainly not my hero.
#4 Learn some gymnasticis and attempt Parkour for a while.
#5 Get into a fight, with multiple people and prey it turns out like a jet li type movie.

[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Renton wrote:

Why wait until you have a death sentance hanging over your head to do the things you want to? That’s just dumb.

sure, and then you get the voice of reason
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Come reason with me OG - We’ll do all those things you got on your “private” list.

Scuba diving with my father in law (as long as I had time to learn it)

Road trip to Alaska

Tell my brother how much of an asshole he’s been in our relationship, and how much I miss him

Cuddle more with the hubby

Two things came to mind… half of the things I thought of I can do anyway. (#4 is easy, #3 goes through constant revisions in my head. Do I be kind, or do I just say it like I see it? Anyway…)

Also, the things that I want to do that would be fun, disregarding having to be “responsible,” would make me feel guilty because if I knew I were going to die I’d realistically feel obligated to go back home to my family, which would be like living in a morgue crossed with a psych ward, while I’d just want to have fun and enjoy the time I had left.

How did I get posted twice? That’s embarrassing… I’m really not that self centered.

Never going to die, sorry.

C’moooooon robot body!

I only want to do one thing,go back to Ireland
find me a good woman, a good pint, kick back in Galway and watch the sun set and rise. I won’t need a damn thing after that.

  1. Ring up all the girls i should have asked out but choked or whatever and take them out on a date.

  2. Give all my money to a cancer charity, and leave my possesions to my family

  3. Sky dive / bungee jump / base jump

  4. Be involved in a car chase by the police.

  5. Change someones life for the better.

Gather my friends, have a party and take my own life, then get cremeted and scattered at lansdowne road.
-very much like one of TCs articles.

[quote]Corkonian wrote:
LiftSmart wrote:
I know I’m going to die.

I can’t think of anything pertinent to accomplish if I only had a few months to live. Does that mean I’m content? Or just unambitious?

Thats a good question actually…
I mean NOTHING entered your head when you read the piece ??

Do you find that your amibitious at the moment ??

As in do you wake up, thinking man im gotta get a new PR in the deadlift today, or today ima go do 2-3 woman ??

I have always been ambitious, but i think its something people either have or haven’t. I don’t really think it can be learned no matter how many trips to the head shrink or how many “self help” courses you take.

Maybe people more intelligent than me will comment.

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Really the only thing that came to mind was to read some classic literature before I died. That’s something I can do anytime though. So maybe I’m just uninteresting? lol

I have ambition, soon I’ll be in university and I get stronger each week. I have a place in my dreams that I’ll arrive at in around 10 years.

  1. Borrow as much money as I could from as many sources as possible.
  2. Change my legal name.
  3. Say goodbye to my family, and hit the road alone.
  4. Spend my cash doing dangerous and illegal things.
  5. Die a hell of a lot sooner than I thought, and spend eternity in hell with the people that are waiting for me to get this party started.

[quote]Yo Momma wrote:

  1. Borrow as much money as I could from as many sources as possible.
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I’ve actually seen this done several times.

A couple of years back just before Xmas I helped one of our inpatients to hook her laptop up onto our wireless LAN. The thing was already wrecked with spyware so I spent some time with her while I cleaned it up ready for her to use.

As such, the conversation turned towards the reason for her being in our IPU (She took the conversation that way as many patients do I find).

She had cancer - 95% of our patients do. She was terminal although she still looked fairly healthy - Turned out she had about 2 weeks to live according to the specialists. Sometimes you just can’t tell by looking.

So when I was finished she thanked me and said she was going to use the time to buy all the gifts her friends and family wanted for Christmas since she wouldn’t be there to celebrate it with them. Most credit card companies here will simply write off any debt owed on the death of the card holder.

She ran up the most enourmous credit card bills over the next few days. I kept calling back when I had chance to see her - always had a smile on her face, giggling like a kid at what she was up to.

She died two days before Christmas. All debts were written off later. I doubt her family would have prefereed the gifts over her but at least she went with a smile.

Slightly weird I suppose, but I meet so many people every week who only have a short time to live, and almost every one of them has a smile and a joke. I draw strength from that. When my time comes I know I’ll have the courage to do the same.

Break into a Zoo once it is closed and fight every fucking animal I can (starting off small of course, maybe a penguin or something, and make sure each animal is progressively harder to beat compared to the previous).

Once I moved up in class, I would get to use weapons (nothing too unfair, I’m talking baseball bat or sword). I figure my list would look like this.

The ones I really want to fight, but could easily lose too:

  1. Croc
  2. Bear
  3. Tiger/Lion
  4. Elephant
  5. Boa Constrictor
  6. Ape

(I realize all these animals would kick my ass normally, but I think I could take a few given the right weapon)

:slight_smile:

Nobody wants to smite their enemies? Nobody?

Well, looks like that guidance counselor was right…

Wow, good question. I’m torn between a desire to travel and the desire to just keep doing what I normally do, which seems very meaningful to me.

I think in the end I’d just keep on as normal, but with less petty griping and more appreciating my people right out loud.

But I dunno. There’s an awful lot I’d like to see.

  1. Quite a few people who need to be dead, and not just in my personal life. I mean travel the world gun in hand.

  2. fuck, fuck, and fuck some more

  3. Hard drugs

4.concerts

  1. Search for a meaning, die with a smile

6 although only 5, I’d probably donate the rest of my money to a foundation for victims of war crimes, and terrorist attacks. Sort of related to number one.

1.Go to the gym to see myself pumped with insane vascularity one last time.

2.Nail amazing chicks/bitches

3.Eat junk food.

4.Tell pepole close to me that i love them.

5.Travel: go see the most amazing places that exist in the world.

[quote]print wrote:
I only want to do one thing,go back to Ireland
find me a good woman, a good pint, kick back in Galway and watch the sun set and rise. I won’t need a damn thing after that.[/quote]

Glad you like Ireland