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re: What Makes an Interesting Life
Posted on 9/1/17 at 7:42 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Posted on 9/1/17 at 7:42 am to PurpleandGold Motown
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PurpleandGold Motown
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What defines a life well lived? What makes a life worth living?
This is a question akin to going into a gym with many folks who appear to be in-shape and asking each one individually, "How do you get in shape?"
You will hear some common themes but you will for the most part hear as many different answers as you will ask different people. Interesting to one person is dull to another person.
I have a friend who spent years in the military traveling overseas in Asia, Europe in-between jaunts into military hot-zones where America was intervening in the Middle East and putting wounded servicemen and women back together again. His idea of a great life is drinking Bourbon, listening to Outlaw Country and hunting & fishing every day for the rest of his existence.
I have two other friends who built a bar and a travel company for a guy who owned property outside of Venice, Italy. They stayed with him for years, made him a pile, then moved to London, then LA and then came back home.
The stories both of these guys tell are fascinating to me. That they both reside back in Livingston Parish is interesting to me. That they have both tasted of such different experiences and yet chose to come back to where we all live is fascinating.
I think they experienced and still experience different lives and yet they're both interesting. Hell I've never spent a day of my life living outside of the LP and I've had a f*cking blast myself.
I think you are just experiencing a yearn for change is all. My advice: Shake things up.
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Posted on 9/1/17 at 7:59 am to PurpleandGold Motown
You are like the majority of people on this planet, judge success and happiness materialisticlly.
Listen to David brooks talking about the stages of lives and mountains of happiness
Long but it may change your perspective On life and happiness if you're smart enough to realize it.
LINK
Listen to David brooks talking about the stages of lives and mountains of happiness
Long but it may change your perspective On life and happiness if you're smart enough to realize it.
LINK
Posted on 9/1/17 at 8:03 am to roux
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have a family and live that life. It's awesome.
How is doing what every other pleb under the sun decides to do....interesting?
Posted on 9/1/17 at 8:26 am to rocket31
There is Nothing I have " achieved" that gives me the quiet satisfaction and sense of meaning that watching my children thrive does. That's the essential oddity of life.
Posted on 9/1/17 at 8:39 am to rocket31
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How is doing what every other pleb under the sun decides to do....interesting?
Because unlike yourself, many people aren't out trying to impress other people. Interesting is subjective, and unique to the individual.
Posted on 9/1/17 at 8:45 am to Lsupimp
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There is Nothing I have " achieved" that gives me the quiet satisfaction and sense of meaning that watching my children thrive does
of course not, that existence is your "life"
if you devoted all of the time spent on your children/family/etc elsewhere who knows what you might have "achieved" and those accomplishments would be just as satisfying.
dedicating 18-21 years of your life to anything and watching it thrive could easily be just as rewarding
Posted on 9/1/17 at 8:46 am to rocket31
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if you devoted all of the time spent on your children/family/etc elsewhere who knows what you might have "achieved" and those accomplishments would be just as satisfying.
dedicating 18-21 years of your life to anything and watching it thrive could easily be just as rewarding
Sociopaths rarely understand the power of a parent/child relationship and how dynamic it really is.
Posted on 9/1/17 at 10:54 am to rocket31
I'll agree to your premise. Which is why I said earlier the key is being true to yourself. I'm a phenomenal parent. I'm kind of a shitty son. I'm a better than average employer. I'm a shitty employee. What gives my life meaning is family and physical adventure. Materialism leaves me cold. I'd rather a good dog than a vanity car. I'd rather an exhausting hike than drinks by the pool. That's me. Everyone being different.
What gives my life meaning is nurturing my family and seeing them bloom beyond anything I could ever be. My business is tremendously successful, but it's just what I do, it's not who I am. Everybody, again, can make that decision for themselves.
What gives my life meaning is nurturing my family and seeing them bloom beyond anything I could ever be. My business is tremendously successful, but it's just what I do, it's not who I am. Everybody, again, can make that decision for themselves.
Posted on 9/1/17 at 11:09 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Are you the real J. Peterman?
Posted on 9/1/17 at 11:10 am to PurpleandGold Motown
Every country in Australia ey?
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