Yeah, 2013 was the worst year ever for me. January this year stank too, with my cat dieing.....I am just happy to have survived it....for now....and hope the rest of the year gets better.
Everyone I talk to agrees, 2013 was a shitty year. The year of the snake man. 2014 is going to be a year of momentum, pushing us towards the awesomeness that will be 2015 (the year of the goat) it's also a good idea to have good hair. If you don't have that you have to be like the most charming person in the world.
The only two things I really wanted to do before I died I have done - 1. Seen the Rolling Stones live in concert. 2. Been to China. Everything else now is icing on the cake.
I've accomplished some standard teenage/kids goals. But i am clearly not much of a goal setter either. I see the point if you want to reach something in particular but I do not (atm). My goal is to live and love without making a big ecological footprint.
BF talks about us going to China, it was never on my bucket list but it could be. He has been there. He has also been to the chez republic and we are going to go there, was gonna be in April but things are getting pushed into short time so not sure about when now.
Travelling to some places after you finished school, experience what they think is real freedom, that kind of thing. Those were my teenage goals/dreams and it seems a lot of others have them as well (maybe among other, bigger goals but still).
My dreams as a kid was to join the military like my dad. Had been on a few tours they took us kids on and even knew what I wanted to do after those tours. It happened only not in the trade I wanted at first because when I signed up it wasn't open. Low and behold I didn't like my first trade and the one I wanted as a kid came up so I got to go in for it. Travel was never a dream for me as a kid for some reason but I did a fair bit being in the military anyway. It was ok but I still don't care to travel, by car or by plane and even less by boat, I hate boats and large bodies of water. I went to a few places in Europe and lots of flying in Canada as well. One year I flew 7 times and by then I was ready to stop flying, or maybe knock it down to once a year. Going to the chez republic will be interesting, BF needs to knock me out for the flight or I am gonna hate it, hahaha. He is all big on these trips to Vegas he likes to do too and I am not, really, but will probably go a couple times, maybe one if I spend lotsa money there and he doesn't want to do it again, I have my ways,,,
I climbed a few big (not super big) mountains, lived abroad for almost a decade, travelled in 16 countries (some of them more than once), learned to scuba dive, got better at my (now former) profession, finished a terrible horrible unreadable novel, recorded some albums, learned to code for websites and will hopefully turn this into my next profession, saved up some money, fell in love with a former model/actress (and she loves me back!), quit smoking/drinking/drugs. In the future I'm going to hopefully live off-grid on a remote property, make a film, get married, get away from computers, have animals, and feel more alive.
I recently did some crazy tech stuff that I've been trying to hire someone to do for me for so long, and I just learned to do it myself, so I'm super proud of me. I can relate to a lot of what you wrote fraggle rock.
i,m finally content in life. ...i hit a few of my goals. i have a family.. (ma girl-and 2 boys).. place to live. got a 2003 1200 harley-davidson. 2 cars. ma kids have dirtbikes. 3 laptops, all the toys the kids have. were all in good health, almost..(oldest boy has type 1 dibates) i work hard every day but... were still a lucky family. i,m very grateful.
i don't really consciously set goals. there's always a list of stuff in my mind that i need to get done, but i just don't look at it as goal setting. really, that kind of feels like setting myself up to fail, since goals are basically something you would like to do but may or may not manage to pull off. i just tell myself i need to get something done, and then i do it. sure, as long as you live in the city. small town girls invariably either marry their high school sweetheart and get knocked up on high school graduation day, or else leave the town forever. i knew it. it's penis size, right? if it helps, 2013 was probably my best year since college.
I am about to accomplish a unique running goal but do not want to post too much about it until I am done. It has involved months of running and I have met 83 of the 86 objectives (the first 83 of which have totaled about 754 miles since early July). The last three runs will be long though (14.5 miles, 17+ and lastly, a 16-17 mile run). More details when I finish! Hopefully around April 5 to 12th range...
I've met numerous material/personal interest goals. If you mean life goals, the big dreams, no I have not. Not one. In fact, I feel like life bitch slapped me across the face and deliberately stuck me with the polar opposite of what I dream and wanted. Why? I don't know. I've theorized that there's a lesson here but I've yet to discover it.