Do you have something you hope will last forever?

All that I create and all that I am will last forever. Great question and time for many to look within.

My car. It’s one of my dream cars and I bought under the advice and recommendation that I would “feel better” regarding the tragedy of last year. Driving it around will kind of age it.

My marriage, my good relationship with my children and my friendships – these are my sinae qua non.

Great question! I hope my the good friendships i made last year will last forever, as one of them live in canada and the other in Denmark.. while I live in Norway. They just mean too much for me to ever give them up.

Libido :-/

My sanity (really), my sense of security and my compassion and empathy towards other. Something that I am struggling to hold onto? Belief in myself.

I’m with @Jude on the sanity bit. I sincerely hope mine lasts. I value it, because without it, I am at the mercy of something that I really can’t describe here.

I also hope my sobriety lasts forever, because without it, I have nothing.

The love I have for family and friends, and the love some people have for me… often some of the same people! : ))

My health of course and the love and respect of my boys. I hope I never ever lose that!

My marriage and my sanity. I’m pretty sure I can keep both, it’s just that some days it’s dicey.

If we’re talking about “stuff,” I hope that my china lasts at least through my lifetime. It was my mom’s and it’s beautiful. Not sure who gets it when I go though…

Lust for life!

Yes: my wife and my life.

My love for living. Value every moment. I hope I will continue to be happy with my life, whatever I do.

So many things but the most important things are the relationships I have with other people – my wonderful husband – my beautiful children and the many students and colleagues I have met over the years and now count as friends. I hope even if we lose touch – that the care we had for each other and the positive influences that have encouraged us each to live better lives lasts.

The spirit of rebellion.

My heart. It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking.

Yes; change, progress, growth.

I love this question….but I’m not sure if you mean forever as in my lifespan or for eternity. Probably you meant for eternity…I can’t really think that far ahead, lol. So I have to answer this in two parts.
For as long as I live I hope I never lose my sense of wonder, my openness to the world and its beauty, my openness to new experiences, new music, new sights, tastes and smells.
I hope I never lose my gratitude for being alive.
I hope I never lose my self respect, without that other peoples respect would be meaningless.
I hope I never lose my urge to create.
And lastly I hope I never lose my memories, that my mind remains vital and intact.

For eternity, my only wish is that all human beings indeed have a soul and that my soul will remain when my body is gone…

It is interesting that you made that distinction Earthgirl. Before I posted I was thinking back to thoughts I had a while ago about how many people there are now and how many there have been and yet how few of us are remembered for anything particularly for eternity (or at least beyond a generation of two after we pass on). It is interesting to watch programs such as “Who do you think you are?” because the research people are now doing into their own families histories begins to uncover some of the amazing but often forgotten things their ancestors have done.

Love. Not just love of one person or one thing, but love of everything. Love of life, love of happiness, love of sadness, and love of love. I think it’s a love for all things that drives me to do what I do and how I do it.

Mz Lizzy Yes, I tend to think that fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, lol. I would not pursue fame for its own sake. I wish I could do something to make the world a better place and be remembered for that, but if not, I will settle for small ways in which I may have touched someone’s life and made it better than it would have been otherwise. As the song on my life soundtrack by Jackson Browne…For a Dancer…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1rZa8Ur_Q

My children’s love.

Nope. Everything that has a beginning has an end, and I accept that. No sense in hoping for the impossible.

This is not to say, however, that there are not things I hope last for as long as they can.

Love

My friendship with my best friend. Time and time again I realise that no one else knows me better. No matter what happens, like how life goes on, we go on.

My current relationship. That’s probably a really obvious answer but it’s really the only thing that I would be bothered about if it didn’t last for ever.

My relationship with my partner and kids. The sharpness of my mind.

My memory, my friendships, my love.

@Neizvestnaya agreed! my memory is a good one.

Just adding a song about eternity that I love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcigPwiCgx8

wundayatta
Forgot to send the words in case you can’t make them out :)

A Thousand Years

Words by sting, music by sting and kipper

A thousand years, a thousand more,
A thousand times a million doors to eternity
I may have lived a thousand lives, a thousand times
An endless turning stairway climbs
To a tower of souls
If it takes another thousand years, a thousand wars,
The towers rise to numberless floors in space
I could shed another million tears, a million breaths,
A million names but only one truth to face

A million roads, a million fears
A million suns, ten million years of uncertainty
I could speak a million lies, a million songs,
A million rights, a million wrongs in this balance of time
But if there was a single truth, a single light
A single thought, a singular touch of grace
Then following this single point , this single flame,
The single haunted memory of your face

I still love you
I still want you
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head

I may be numberless, I may be innocent
I may know many things, I may be ignorant
Or I could ride with kings and conquer many lands
Or win this world at cards and let it slip my hands
I could be cannon food, destroyed a thousand times
Reborn as fortune’s child to judge another’s crimes
Or wear this pilgrim’s cloak, or be a common thief
I’ve kept this single faith, I have but one belief

I still love you
I still want you
A thousand times the mysteries unfold themselves
Like galaxies in my head
On and on the mysteries unwind themselves
Eternities still unsaid
’til you love me

Wow!

That was a bit overwhelming. Tunes like that kind of reach inside my chest and turn my heart inside out. I am left with a deep wistfulness… like there was something I lost way back when and I am only now figuring out that it’s gone.