If I had 1 year to live, I'd go payday irl. Rob a huge bank with a few doods.
This video both scares me and inspires me. I personally have a multitude of accomplishments/inventions I'd love to build and I'm currently working on them (I'm 20), let me say that summers in between College are worthwhile and should be utilized to the max if you don't have an internship or summer study so that you can devote it to personal projects and a job to fund said personal projects.
The reason it scares me is some of my good friends have been, honestly, walking aimlessly and don't have set life goals/know what they want to do for a living/etc. And it concerns me big time because some have fallen into deep depression/borderline suicide because of it.
Keep strong, keep following your dreams and live life to the fullest.
If I had only one year to live I would make myself a bucket list and try my best to cross most if not all of them off.
it really annoys me that I don't know the answer to that question
I'd get a Volvo and fix a real nice coffee machine into the boot and sell coffee for £1 a cup on the beach in Norfolk.
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;45216750]This video both scares me and inspires me. I personally have a multitude of accomplishments/inventions I'd love to build and I'm currently working on them (I'm 20), let me say that summers in between College are worthwhile and should be utilized to the max if you don't have an internship or summer study so that you can devote it to personal projects and a job to fund said personal projects.
The reason it scares me is some of my good friends have been, honestly, walking aimlessly and don't have set life goals/know what they want to do for a living/etc. And it concerns me big time because some have fallen into deep depression/borderline suicide because of it.
Keep strong, keep following your dreams and live life to the fullest.[/QUOTE]
Show them this video. It'd probably give them a new perspective.
For a while, I've been kind of straying from what I want to do. Seriously, I've been holding back for about 5 years, and it really is the most depressing thing when you just have your life going on at the same time and you can't do what you really want to do.
But I've stopped making excuses for myself and just started doing it for.
Everyday people mindlessly go through their day, telling themselves their real life hasn't started yet.
And then on their deathbeds, they realise. The life they lived is the real thing.
[QUOTE=Strontboer;45218405]Everyday people mindlessly go through their day, telling themselves their real life hasn't started yet.
And then on their deathbeds, they realise. The life they lived is the real thing.[/QUOTE]
That's deep man.
[QUOTE=PrivRyan;45218393]Show them this video. It'd probably give them a new perspective.
For a while, I've been kind of straying from what I want to do. Seriously, I've been holding back for about 5 years, and it really is the most depressing thing when you just have your life going on at the same time and you can't do what you really want to do.
But I've stopped making excuses for myself and just started doing it for.[/QUOTE]
See, that's what I hope this video would do for them, but I'm also worried about the risk of further sinking them into their depression.
Dreams get further and further away from people as shit gets more expensive. I want to be a welder and start my own welding business after moving to Seattle (I currently live in Georgia), but just the classes itself for welding will cost $8,000 for 24 weeks. I'm 22 and currently don't have a job because its hard to find one around here and don't have a penny to my name. Without money, things are ten times harder and it sucks.
I find it quite funny how you guys say: "I'll do this and this and this".
What I would do?
Sit at home.. Live everyday life.
Why would you change your life all of the sudden for something like that? And I can see the dumb rates coming and see the people saying: "but bud, you have only one year to live.."
If you start to do something you always wanted to do, you remind yourself: "oh shit, still have to do this.. But I'll die in one year."
Why don't you just start loving the people around you ? Why don't you just prepare for the moment? Why don't you just go on with everyday life..
What I would do? Just go on with life. I'd be sad, ofcourse.. but why think about it and start doing shit you otherwise would have never done..
I like the message and it almost makes me wanna crack on doing stuff that will help pursue my dreams, but I'm certain that after today the impact of it will wear off and I'll live out my days doing nothing as usual.
[QUOTE=Rozelsky;45220674]I find it quite funny how you guys say: "I'll do this and this and this".
What I would do?
Sit at home.. Live everyday life.
Why would you change your life all of the sudden for something like that? And I can see the dumb rates coming and see the people saying: "but bud, you have only one year to live.."
If you start to do something you always wanted to do, you remind yourself: "oh shit, still have to do this.. But I'll die in one year."
Why don't you just start loving the people around you ? Why don't you just prepare for the moment? Why don't you just go on with everyday life..
What I would do? Just go on with life. I'd be sad, ofcourse.. but why think about it and start doing shit you otherwise would have never done..[/QUOTE]
Is it wrong that I read that heartfelt tirade and thought "that's stupid"
why would anyone want to spend the remainder of their life constantly moping about their imminent death, that's
i don't want to call it a complete waste of time but i can't think of many other ways to describe it
[QUOTE=Simplemac3;45222730]Is it wrong that I read that heartfelt tirade and thought "that's stupid"
why would anyone want to spend the remainder of their life constantly moping about their imminent death, that's
i don't want to call it a complete waste of time but i can't think of many other ways to describe it[/QUOTE]
I think it's more of the ideal of breaking your norm because of a year left to live is silly and instead to hunker-down and create connections with people so they'd have great memories of you.
[QUOTE=gazzy_GUI;45222901]I think it's more of the ideal of breaking your norm because of a year left to live is silly and instead to hunker-down and create connections with people so they'd have great memories of you.[/QUOTE]
How is it silly? If you've been living life proper, you should already've left plenty of happy memories for your friends and family.
To live the last year of your only bout of consciousness on the planet doing the exact same shit you've been doing for the rest of your life when you could be striving to do some great things to mark your departure is... Insanity, to my ears. I'm aware this is a bit rude, but it sounds like a conclusion somebody might make after watching a sappy movie.
I've been thinking this for some time. How long until I can't do what I want to any more?
It really hit home when he said studying engineering at the age of 20, because that's me right now. I just got my results back today, in fact, and I could leave uni now with a solid 2:1 (I think that's the equivalent of a B for America?) which I could get a decent job with, but I'm presently planning on doing a further year to get a Masters. Tossing up in my head whether to take a year out and follow up some business/software/app ideas with a friend of mine and possibly travel, or continue on and get a Masters and dive straight into a job after that (hopefully)
I figure it would be the last chance in my life to take a year to do that sort of thing. The video is a perfect explanation as to why.
I wonder what I'll think when I look back on this decision in 20 years. If you see my user name at the bottom of this thread in 20 years you'll know why :v:
id cook meth.
It's all about living in the now. You can prepare for your future and still live a fulfilling life.
I've been fortunate to be able to live abroad--specifically Crete, Greece. I've been able to travel and see things I only once saw in pictures and movies. Now, at the age of 22 I have started what could be a promising career in Government Accounting. I hope one day to move up and become a Special Agent in the FBI as an Accountant.
All while in the meantime I'm still planning trips, writing down goals, and asking myself the question, "What now?"
I don't know where life will take me and frankly I don't want to know; life is a mystery that governs itself. Sometimes the smallest decisions are the ones that make the biggest impact. Trying to force your life in a direction will only remind you of your failings. Instead, live and love now and don't pass up opportunities as they come--even the ones that may have consequences. After all, some of the best stories are the ones where you haven't made the best of choices.
I'd live life in the slow lane.
I can't imagine doing anything special. Maybe lots of psychedelics a week or two before I died or something.
Maybe it's not a question I can answer because I think life is awesome?
[QUOTE=Gump;45218383]I'd get a Volvo and fix a real nice coffee machine into the boot and sell coffee for £1 a cup on the beach in Norfolk.[/QUOTE]
You're simple, I like you.
On the final day I would definitely like to go skydiving without deploying my parachute. Everything else? I'd spend all of my time outside away from the computer.
I don't have any big ambitions or dreams. I want a simple graphic design job and that's all I really want in life.
I don't want to travel to some far off place, I don't want a wife or kids, I don't want to make a name for myself.
I am content being small and doing something I enjoy.
If I had one year to live, I'd spend it relaxing and doing the things I like to do. I don't see any reason to go off and do something crazy when I'm perfectly happy right now.
[QUOTE=Binladen34;45216623]If I had 1 year to live, I'd go payday irl. Rob a huge bank with a few doods.[/QUOTE]
If that's what you'd do, you'd probably deserve whatever's killing you.
When I was 16 I wrote a bucket list.
It included things like skydiving, climbing certain mountains, travelling through the entire country without any money and nothing but my clothes, falling in love with someone (mutual), a lot of travel destinations and directly facing every fear I had.
I finished my bucket list when I was 19. :) And I am goddamn pleased about it!
(Minus hiking through India and Nepal, meeting and living with local people, and experiencing the Himalayas... which I will do this winter. Just ordered my plane tickets two days ago.) :dance:
[QUOTE=Simplemac3;45222966]How is it silly? If you've been living life proper, you should already've left plenty of happy memories for your friends and family.
To live the last year of your only bout of consciousness on the planet doing the exact same shit you've been doing for the rest of your life when you could be striving to do some great things to mark your departure is... Insanity, to my ears. I'm aware this is a bit rude, but it sounds like a conclusion somebody might make after watching a sappy movie.[/QUOTE]
Differing opinions i suppose.
If i had a year to live i'd sell everything and go travelling.
I'd love to see other landscapes than the boring flats of England.
[QUOTE=seano12;45225218]On the final day I would definitely like to go skydiving without deploying my parachute. Everything else? I'd spend all of my time outside away from the computer.[/QUOTE]
Fun way to go? Sure. But not for everyone else. :v: It's a bit of an asshole way to go. Wouldn't want to be the pilot, or the person who cleans up mushed old man gook. Is that worth the 120-second rush to death?
My dream is to be a professional animator for games or cinema.
And here I am, in an office, with Autodesk MotionBuilder up - doing exactly that.
I'm quite happy <3
[editline]27th June 2014[/editline]
Well, I suppose that's more a career-related dreams.
As for everything else, it's fairly optional stuff. I wanna travel a bit, maybe work for Pixar or Valve in the future, but those are both in America and moving countries is not something I'm too interested in - especially [I]that [/I]country. But hey!
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