Live a perfect year and die?

Why is it shitty?

 

to really think about it, imagine having some sort of problem like a mental problem where you had lost time of your life.. let's say 2 years. you get doctor help, surgery, and you are able to live again. then a year later you are gone again. just a body. not even noticing that a year later, you would lose yourself again, just one day lost. just a body.

 

I can see what you are saying... I don't want the perfect year and then die. I want to be able to watch my children raise their kids and be a part of their lives, and who knows if I live long enough I would like to see how my grandkids raise their children also. Life isn't about all the good things, life is about living. You have to know the bad to enjoy the good.

 

Things have to go wrong so I can appreciate them when they go right... A perfect year would depress me

 

A shitty, boring year, followed by a shitty, boring, pre-known death?

FUCK no

 

That's hot. Send pix :tongue:

 

That was my first thought.... Except it would not be a lovable "guy". In my case, it would be a woman, a motorhome (and the fuel to go where ever I/we want), a board game to randomly select from a hundred ways of having sex, in every state. And, after that, yes, I don't believe I would regret dying.

 

The more I think about it the more I think this year would start with me having amnesia and with no sense of my impending doom. Again, the 1st 6 months would be figuring out who I was while going through Oddysey like adventures that would have me go around the globe alone and I would gradually figure out who I was while in Ireland, home of my father's ancestors.

 

i think that what the op meant with 'perfect' was 'as best as it can be'?

 

A year of constant wish fulfillment and without the petty aggravations,disappointment and boredom of normal everyday life.

 

Just because YOU are failing to live a rich and full life doesn't mean it is impossible to do so.

If you are in a job you consider soul killing, there is only one person to blame for that. Guess who?

I can tell you stories of people who have abandoned such lives with ease and gone on to live incredibly rich ones. I won't bore you with details, but I assure you, there is no one to blame for your misery but yourself, and it is INCREDIBLY EASY to get out and live an amazing life without the aid of some magic genie.

You said the first six months would be spent traveling.
Well, lots of people spend 6 and 12 and 24 and even longer than that traveling the globe. They are not especially wealthy, not necessarily. Anyone can do this.

If you had all your wishes fulfilled you would be as bored and miserable, if not more so, as you are now. There is no achievement without challenge.

One might think unlimited wealth, etc would eliminate all your problems and worries, but really it is simply a matter of attitude.

 

how does a genie imprisoned in bottle for lifetime have any concept of time anyways?..

 

there's a clock in his bottle.

 

you assume a genie is locked in time, hmm?

 

While there are times when I ponder why certain things happen and there is no answer for a period of time in life when things feel as if they are unbearable, there is always a tomorrow.

I would not want to take anyone up on the offer as I always believe that time does change things and what I learn for those tough times makes the good times all the more appreciated.

 

Jimmy P??????

 

Not a chance, as I know my whole bloody life is going to be epic!

 

The same way we humans imprisoned here on earth do and astronauts are nothing more than escaped prisoners with a high recidivism rate



Hotwater

 

i think your post is ok,

but i have to say that where i live, considerating the price of things and how much money people make, unless you go on foot, dont eat and sleep on the streets, yes you have to be really wealthy to simply go and spend 6 or more months traveling through the globe

i agree that you are the one to blame for your problems and wealth problems, but i just had to say it

 

What a fatuous load of crap. When you have a family you can't just say, "well, I'm off to see the world..." When you have a mortgage and credit card debts you just can't quit your job. To become self employed I would need operating funds plus capital, neither of which I have. MY family needs my check to pay for groceries, gas, school lunches, the orthodontist, car insurance, student loans, cell phone bill, gas & electric, credit card debt and a host of other bills.

Who's going to pay for airfare or visas or even minimal food & lodging on your globetrotting experiment? Assuming you could find budget hostel lodgings and eat very cheaply then you would plow through a bare minimum of $ 1500/ month plus travel expenses. Where is that money coming from?

I really hate this line from people who live off trust funds/ rich parents and have no kids. Wouldn't life be grand then? To just love that Seaside Bungalow on Iryin Jaia for $ 5/ day and decide on a whim that you want to stay a month!

Yeah, you really need a big time reality check.