Are you living the life?

No. You just can’t plan for every turn you will take.

Not really, no. However, thats largely because I expected to be dead by the time I was 25yrs old, & years later I’m still kicking’n’screaming.

Not quite…getting there though. I knew I would have kids and that kinda takes precedence over other plans I may have. I lived my life pretty full throttle though before they came along. Check back with me in 3 years if I am still alive things will be much different.

I am only just living the life I envisaged. It has taken many, many years, but now I can honestly say I am more than happy with what I have.
I wouldn’t be able to say this but for my family.

Yeah, I definitely am, but I guess this is unusual.

Took a lot of planning and following through.

Hmmm. Not really, no.

Out of curiosity – how old are you?

I am not living the life I envisioned. I have yet to have written Ray Davies: The Rolling Stone Interview, I haven’t won an Oscar, and I have still not argued a case in front of the Supreme Court.

It took me a long time (I am talking like 25 years) to come to terms with fact that, while it is not what I thought it would be, my life is what I have made of it and isn’t half bad. In the end I am surrounded by love, I am one of the lucky ones who has found my other half, am working toward the more realistic goals I have set for myself, and I am relaxing and trying to enjoy the journey.

Keep putting one foot in front of the other. Be open to what life has to offer right now and know that goals and dreams are not flat, they are fluid and can be ever evolving.

I am living a life. And I’m pretty content with that. Dont let TV give you unrealistic expectations. You’ve a better chance of dying from a lightning strike than winning the big one on the lottery, and the normal distribution doesn’t watch tampon commercials.

My wife is living the life.
I am just paying for it.

I am now living a life probably better than I imagined, but the road has been nothing like I planned. It has been a dificult journey filled with pain, death, heartache, and sorrow. I never planned for that, and although the losses have been painful, I have also seen the world in first class, spent the last 20 years with the love of my life, and have the 5 most amazing grandkids in the world.
This IS the life!

I am living one of the many possible lives I could have lived and I am more than happy with it most of the time. I may have wanted more in terms of notable accomplishments, but I have meaningful work, great friends, a supportive and loving nuclear family and enough money. Best of all, I have come to enjoy and value myself.

Definitely not.

@filmfann Best answer so far!

I am pretty happy about it,but there is always room for improvement :)

Life has many unexpected twists and turns, you cannot map your way through it in advance. If you are lucky, work hard and have support you can still get to where you want to be. I have had several major changes of direction to end up in what I regard as being both a fortunate and ideal place with people who I love around me.

“I am so not living the life I had envisioned for myself.”

Stop that!
None of us are fortune tellers. Even when it comes to our own future.

That is like saying. I passed the first grade, why am I not a 1st grade teacher.

Life is full of cross roads.

Yep. Livin’ the life. Walkin’ the walk. Talkin’ the talk. Still alive and well, which is about all I ever envisioned for myself. And happy. Quite happy and contented.

“It’s my life, it’s now or never, I ain’t gunna live forever!”

I am living a life that I didn’t expect for myself but it’s so much better than I could have dreamed.

Not at all,but I felt like saying “Heck Yeah!” because I’m so very happy right now! :)

Not sure what “the life” is. I’m living mine as best I can.

Hooray @Simone_De_Beauvoir! Your answer made me smile!

I am not living the life I envisioned for myself. However, I am quite content with the fact that I’m living life, rather than floating & just existing.

Livin’ La Vida Loca!

I love my job and I live in paradise. This is much better than how I expected to turn out.

“I love my job and I live in paradise.”

What do you do? Where do you live?

@SuperMouse :)

@ChazMaz: I’m getting my PhD in behavioral neuroscience (they pay me to go to school!) and I live in Southern California.

OK, at a real computer now.
Isiah 53: (Especially verses 6–9)
Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.

8 By oppression [a] and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken. [b]

9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the LORD makes [c] his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

11 After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light of life [d] and be satisfied [e] ;
by his knowledge [f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, [g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong, [h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.

um…nope I am not, but I am trying to create it every day, unfortunately I all too often seemed to be derailed by something or another and forget what I am aiming for as there is so much to aim for…and when you’re aiming for that stuff you lose sight of the present moment which is after all what life is only ever about…but balancing the two is all very confusing and time is forever the essence and little of that I have not got

Yep. I am a freshman in college, right where I want to be. I was a little confused at first dealing with all the homesickness and what not, but this is where I want to be. I love this place. I’m not exactly sure what career I want to go into, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. :)

I never really thought about what my life would be like so I have nothing to compare. I’m living my life not the life.

I have everything I every wanted, and just as I dreamed it would be. I never dreamed the circuitous route I would take to get here.