"The trouble is, you think you have time." -Buddha

Well, some people like to think that some things are meant to happen and some aren’t. If they don’t happen, they weren’t meant to and that’s how it was meant to go.

1. Life makes me happy. Being alive and experiencing the greatness surrounding me.
2. I want to enjoy life as much as possible. The best way to do so, is by enjoying every moment in your life, every small thing… The morning breeze, the birds singing on the trees, etc…. Paying attention to such things is very important…& Acknowledging the world around you is a great achievement to yearn towards to.
+ of course, I want to learn to accept death. I don’t want to die scared.

@citygirl9050, I only have two things I really want to accomplish before I die.

One is to become an occupational therapist, because I have known it was what I was meant to do since I was a child, and I absolutely love what it entails.

The second is that I want to take a road trip with no pre-planned route across the country. I want to end up in small towns and have to learn to quickly build connections with people and hopefully see every walk of life and all kinds of culture. I want to go through a challenge like finding places to sleep and things to eat and being alone with my thoughts for long periods of time. Doing it by myself is the most important part for me, because I’m incredibly social and crave company constantly.

My third was to swim naked in a large body of natural water, but I accomplished that this year. [: It’s definitely going to be a thing I will try to do with some regularity now though.

I haven’t been on here for a while, forgot how awesome you people are lol! Guess i’ll express a couple cents ;)

Hmmm,

1.) Making other people happy, and choosing to enjoy things :)

2.) I want to learn to do anything that I desire. To be positioned well enough, with enough skill developed that I can create whatever I wish. ie: I want to build this business, build a charity, have this person raise 300k by next month, etc. To be limitless.

Great topic!

i always think that the buddha wants to be possession less, and will later revert that time, were we to observe it sternly, has us. Under this idea, I interpret this to say we only have this one moment–no past, no future-which time has absolutely no measure of, the whole of everything that this (gasp) is…no clock could define such a thing.

@citygirl9050, haha, I’m learning to turn being scared into courage, and even though there may be an end, I will never seek it. It will come in due time. That being said, I hear you when you say there is so much to do!!
So do it now :)

1)Music makes me happy
2)I want to climb a mountain, and then jump off of it and fly. After that, I’ll learn how to sword fight and re-introduce sword duels into modern culture. Sound good? :)

@truthseeker, hell yeah

Things I want to do: Travel. Visit a monastery. Teach kids English in Thailand. Visit the Valhalla project and stay for a month or more. Start my own sustainable living community in Oregon or Washington. Astral project and become proficient at it. Meditate every SINGLE day. Do Yoga every SINGLE day. Read at least one chapter of my books every two days. Take Ayahuasca, Iboga, Mecaline, and LSD.

What makes me happy? Meditation, laughing, soccer, reading, smoking marijuana with some friends, taking mushrooms, being with family, petting my cat, eating delicious homemade food, sleeping, and dreaming.

I’m in college at the moment. I drink. I smoke cigars, cigarettes, hooka, weed, all the basics. I’m failing out, but the weird thing is I could not be happier with my life at this point in time.

1. laughter
2. no clue

@vernalsoul, I’ve also wanted to do something similar.

Check out David choe’s (artist) thumbs up web show sometime for inspiration on your #2

http://www.vice.com/thumbs-up/thumbs-up-season-1-1-of-5

He used to have the first 3 seasons vice has gotten lame but it’s worth checking this show out. or i’m sure youtube has the rest…

While reading this thread I came across a few posts where people seemed to mention the fact that they would like to make other people happy, I just have to say that this kind of thinking is as delusional as thinking that you have time. How can you make someone else happy? Or vice versa? Think about it. By making them a cup of tea or saying a nice word to them. Sure that might be doing something nice for them, but you didnt MAKE them feel anything. They made the feeling themselves. They created the feeling or whatever it is they are feeling, due to an outside factor – in this case… you. You create it at all times. So all the songs that sing, “You make me feel soooo” are so full of “pardon the expression” crap. Then again how silly would it sound, “I make myself feel soooo happy when you are around!” or what have you haha. Doesn’t have the same ring to it haha. So thats the delusion. Sure, doing nice things for others may make you feel happy, but you’re the one creating it at all times in all situations. No one can or ever will make you feel a certain way but yourself.