So, what do you want out of life?

Comfort. Privacy, peace and quiet. A low risk comfortable adventure; And above all choice and freedom.

A quiet mind. People without bipolar disorder don’t realize how precious that is.

Contentment, but I don’t think it will ever happen. I am a malcontent, always have been and probably always will. But that is not necessarily a bad thing. It has pushed me to have experiences and adventures that most people only think about. I have had a pretty interesting life so far and hopefully there are still a few adventures to come. After having lived 6 years in the middle of nowhere, everything since has been an anti climax.

I know what you mean @Hawaii_Jake – that is a blessing indeed.

At least 100 years of good health.

Fulfillment. This word pretty much sums it up for me, in my personal life and my career.

In my career, fulfillment includes being treated fairly and equally and while I want to do well in my career, I don’t want power or fame. I don’t care about that. I would like to make a difference and generate changes that improve the area I work in and I am doing that. Do I have this now? Partially. I have the sort of job that can definitely bring this and to a degree I have it but it’s also highly competitive and stressful. I don’t like either of these elements.

In my personal life, I just want to be happy with my husband. To have enough money to pay the bills and travel when we want to. To feel secure about our retirement. I am happy with my husband (except his planning abilities for special events :-) ) but 99% of the time, yes, very happy. We are working on being secure for our retirement but we’re doing okay.

I want good health for my family and myself. My health is okay, it could be better but again, that’s a work-in-progress and will be from now on I think. I’m at the time of life when little things start to not work quite so well. My husband has some health issues too but they’re managed and my children are all well and happy. I would love grandchildren but my children aren’t in any hurry and it will happen if it happens.

What about you @Plucky? How are you doing these days?

I want to be able to travel more.

I want it all
I want it all
I want it all
And I want it now!!

To love myself, and be the best person I can be. (:

What I have… which I thought was unattainable not so long ago: Fairly consistent inner peace, unconditional love with my partner, a vocation that I enjoy and brings fulfillment, and enough income to live modestly but comfortably.

It would be wonderful to have more finances than I need, so I could lose the stress of having to work and could travel the world. If I had enough that I could do that and give some away, that would be even better. But these are wishes, not wants.

An empire that lasts a thousand years.

ALL of the above (so well expressed) plus an endless supply of peanuts.

I’m old enough to recall the “joke”, if that’s what it was (basically, I believe it was an ethnic slur wrapped in words to make it look like a joke) that got him fired as Nixon’s Secretary of Agriculture back in the day.

As a teenager at the time I wasn’t on Air Force One with the President, the Secretary and whatever reporters overheard the joke, obviously, and in the language of the times the exact words were never repeated for the public to hear. But knowing that the first part of the slur was “loose shoes” and the last part was “a warm bathroom”, I’ve been able to put together enough of the context to be pretty certain what was said.

Anyway, although I’m not in the minority that he was scurrilously referring to, I want what he talked about on the plane.

A loving partner, great sex, fulfilling work, a comfortable nest and enough money to be able to visit my sons.

I want more time to try all the things I wanted to try…..go to school, take a class here and there, travel more, spend more time with friends and family, try new things like pilates, yoga, zumba, kickboxing…..seriously, just want to try new things…..

I want a job that I enjoy. If it’s going to be at least 40 hours of my week, I feel like I should like it. So many people go through school and work just to get it over with, and it seems like a waste of their life. I suppose others are just not work-driven.

Better knees. Everything else, relatively speaking, is fine. (I cut 7 of Milo’s nails yesterday…my personal best.)

This question makes me think of this Oingo Boingo song. (Gratitude)

“Life’s been so good to me, has it been good to you?
Has it been everything that you expected it to be?
Was it as good for you as it was good for me?
Was it everything it was all set up to be?”

My definition of what I want out of life changes periodically.
When I was living in Japan years ago one night I had a memorable dream of a house with a white picket fence a little red fuzzy dog and a porch swing on the front porch.
A couple of years later I was living that to my amazement I’d managed to dream it and then make it be….and just when I thought I had my life all sorted out.. I went and fell in love with a man who lived thousands of miles away.
It was hard selling off my (literally) dream house and moving away from all my friends and family—but me and my dog moved far away to start a new life…because by then what I wanted companionship of the RIGHT man more than just the house, the dog and the white picket fence. Nearly 15 years of hindsight later I can tell you I made the right choice.

There are some things we can’t control (like health..and if you disagree I would like to point you to my super-healthy eating marathon running family members who died of a brain tumor, & aneurysm respectively and another friend who was in perfect health who fell off a ladder and died… so, point is..you can only control your destiny w/ regards to health to a degree, y’know?)... but of the things I can control:

I want to be a wonderful mom to my kids and give them a happy, memorable childhood.
I want to be a good wife and make my husband happy.
I want to be a good, supportive friend and be there when my friends need me.
I want a comfy couch and a cozy bed to plop into and read..or quilt. (And since I live in the freakin’ tundra here..a roof over my head and the ability to pay my heating bills goes with this particular “want”...)
I want to have enough time and money to support my reading and quilting habits comfortably.

So far..doing pretty good on all of the above…and that’s all that I could hope for, for now.

I would like my mother to find peace in her remaining years, free from the torment of dementia. I would like for my kids and their SO’s to find health, happiness and less pain in their lives. I would like my grandkids to grow up to be capable, competent, fulfilled adults in a world less troubled than the one it looks like I am passing onto them.

Me, I’m content (or I would be if I could sell my house anyway) I have a good wife and partner, relatively good health, and the ability to get by without having to keep up with the Jones, or the Bubbas.

I want the kind of love that could shake cities to the ground.

To continue to be in a happy, loving relationship with my best friend; better relations with my family; be healthy (physically, mentally and emotionally); making a living doing what I love; and give me land lots of land and the starry skies above ( I want to live amongst nature/live by the lake/woods. Northern Michigan and Northern Ontario are my idea of paradise).

I want to be happy. I want to find myself living in a way that is satisfying.

I wanna go to Mount Splashmoooore…take me take me take me now! NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW, Mount Splashmore I wanna go take me there right now.

@Symbeline Can I go with?

Hells yeah!

To have the chance to produce Tolkien’s book, The Silmarillion into ten movies within a span of fifty years. So that means I would have to live longer like a Dunedain. That would be awesome fun for me.

Well, there’s what I want, and what is realistic. What I really want would require me having been born to a wealthy family lol.

I always wanted a simple life; a fulfilling job where I made enough but that wouldn’t demand all my time, to be surrounded by good people (my friends, family and husband). Things like that. There was a time when I didn’t believe I’d ever have any of it, let alone all of it. I would say I am content (which I’ve always valued more than being ‘happy’).

A chance to work in my chosen field (computer programmer…and I’m working on it)...and maybe one good friend and/or significant other who truly cares about me and wants the best for me. (At this point I need a true friend so badly, it almost is more important than a S/O…although someone who is both would be ideal…)

To live a happy and contented life, knowing that one cannot have it all without
pain and sufferring entering the picture, yet getting through it and becomming a
much stronger person for it too.
Material gain does not equate to happiness.
Learn to live within your means and realizing how much happiness that enables
a good life.

Some pretty cool wants so far.
@Bellatrix I want good emotional and physical health (and to stay quit smoking). I want the same for those around me. With all my diagnonsenses, I want to live a little more free than they allow me to. I want to live life as full and happy as I can with my partner at my side. I want to find my niche in society. I want to be financially secure. I want to travel the world…and move to the country (preferably by mountains). I want to make a positive difference, even a small one, during my time here. Lastly, I simply want to live.

I want to be happy and healthy and I want someone to love eventually.

When I was 18, my ambition was to be a housewife and mother in Mason City, Iowa. I’d have a fall back career as an occupational therapist; be a great hostess; enter things in the state fair. That didn’t work out. Instead, I grew a great deal intellectually and had an amazing life, full of surprises and unexpected experiences. I feel so lucky.
Who knew this could happen?

I just want to get through each day and die at reasonable early age.

@Headhurts…??

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@yankeetooter Yes?