How do you know when you've arrived ?

On a light note: when the train stops and the doors open, and the signs outside say the name of my station.

On a serious note: when you meet people who know you by reputation, and they react positively as a result.

When you’ve reached your destination.
When you can look back on your life with no regrets.
When you are surrounded by family and friends who love you.
When you can look past your needs to the needs of others.
And most importantly when you are proud to be you.
... then you’ve arrived.

You can’t arrive someplace, if you don’t know where you are going. But live each day to the fullest and you will go far!

depends if you are drunk.

Seems to me possibly another of the kind of question that if you have to ask you probably have not yet gotten to where you want to be.

When you post a question on Fluther that doesn’t get a snide response. ;-)

When a member of your entourage tells you so.

There’s a famous adage; I don’t know the attribution but I think it a wise one.

“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”

We are either growing or we are dying. Wherever you are going, once you get there, you realize it is just the beginning of a new journey!

After we die there is a brief moment of arrival, immediatly after which, a new journey begins.

@gailcalled I agree! The trip is (usually) always better then the destination!

BTW: (This phrase is a Robert Louis Stevenson quotation, from Virginibus Puerisque, 1881: “Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”)

You have arrived when, after paying all of your bills for the month, there is still some $$$ in your account.

@Cardinal. Thanks for finding the author. And he uses “hopefully” properly, which I love.

How dang cute is sfgirl?

Very cute!!!! Almost as cute as our wives!!!!