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Trollheart 03-26-2021 03:12 PM
Your hopes and dreams?
 
We all had hopes and dreams when we were younger - we were going to be this, do that, invent the other - most of which, I would imagine in most cases, did not come true.

I of course believed I would be a successful writer by now, earning a living by the power of my creativity. BUZZ! Didn't happen.

Thought I'd own either a car or a motorbike. BUZZZ! Didn't happen.

Expected to have my own place. Sort of technically do, but not really as it's still the parents' house and I'm here with Karen.

I also thought at some point I would emigrate, and intended to retire to the Cotswolds. BUZZZ! Didn't happen.

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So how about you?

Marie Monday 03-26-2021 03:30 PM
MB, the land of internet strangers' hopes and dreams. If I could have realised my dreams I'd be the vocalist of a punk band called Emergency Tampon lol

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard 03-26-2021 03:47 PM
I thought I'd be a journalist traveling across the globe at this point in my life. Instead I'm working a soul sucking desk job. Probably making a bit more money this way though.

I guess that's something.

Also I would def listen to a band called Emergency Tampon.

Psy-Fi 03-26-2021 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2167637)
MB, the land of internet strangers' hopes and dreams. If I could have realised my dreams I'd be the vocalist of a punk band called Emergency Tampon lol
You still have time to make your dream come true. :cool:

Marie Monday 03-26-2021 04:11 PM
I know, I haven't completely given up on it. It's just in a back drawer in my mind somewhere and knowing myself the chance that it'll happen is about 0.3%

ando here 03-26-2021 04:29 PM
I just wanted to be left alone to play. Pretty much what I'm doing. :)

Frownland 03-26-2021 04:32 PM
Is this only about unfulfilled hopes and dreams? One I'm still pursuing is being able to grow my own food and weed.

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Originally Posted by Ol’ Qwerty Bastard (Post 2167641)
I thought I'd be a journalist traveling across the globe at this point in my life. Instead I'm working a soul sucking desk job. Probably making a bit more money this way though.

I guess that's something.

Also I would def listen to a band called Emergency Tampon.
You still have time for change before your soul is fully sucked. They almost got mine.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard 03-26-2021 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2167653)
You still have time for change before your soul is fully sucked. They almost got mine.
What are you doing now?

Marie Monday 03-26-2021 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2167653)
You still have time for change before your soul is fully sucked. They almost got mine.
Indeed. Journalism is cool, you could even start out by doing it on the side at first maybe, if you want financial stability.

The Batlord 03-26-2021 04:42 PM
All I ever wanted is for someone on the internet to admit I won an argument. Maybe one day...

Frownland 03-26-2021 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Ol’ Qwerty Bastard (Post 2167654)
What are you doing now?
I'm trying to get a writing career going, but luck with being a stonx bro has paid the bills.

The Batlord 03-26-2021 04:45 PM
I thought you were selling porn DVDs on the internet.

Frownland 03-26-2021 04:48 PM
Not sure where you got that idea. I sell them in person to make new friends.

The Batlord 03-26-2021 04:49 PM
Maybe it was Brain Force Plus.

jwb 03-26-2021 05:08 PM
I didn't have hopes and dreams as a kid in terms of career. That was part of the problem

I would like to be a writer but I don't really have the discipline. I don't think I could ever consistently put out content or even commit to writing a whole book. I write more sporadically whenever I get the urge.

But really I just wanna be rich/well off. I don't even need to be proper rich I'll settle for hood rich if I have to. Just wanna not be broke and not really have to worry about money.

The Batlord 03-26-2021 05:12 PM
Better start scrathin' those lotto tickets.

jwb 03-26-2021 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2167658)
I'm trying to get a writing career going, but luck with being a stonx bro has paid the bills.
What does stonx bro mean?

And what do you write? Got any samples you wanna share?

The Batlord 03-26-2021 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2167667)
What does stonx bro mean?

And what do you write? Got any samples you wanna share?
He's saying he got rich off Game Stop stocks.

jwb 03-26-2021 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2167666)
Better start scrathin' those lotto tickets.
bro literally blew like 50 dollars on scratch offs for the first time in my life lmao. I am not used to having extra money in the bank so I was like lemme just take a chance for once on a whim. I never gamble. Won $0. :o:

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard 03-26-2021 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2167658)
I'm trying to get a writing career going, but luck with being a stonx bro has paid the bills.
Well ****, best of luck dude. Sometimes I miss writing but I've always struggled with motivating myself.

Frownland 03-26-2021 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2167667)
What does stonx bro mean?
Small time stock broker with an inflated sense of understanding in the market who is in reality a chud paying for Wolf of Wall Street's ludes.

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And what do you write? Got any samples you wanna share?
I guess it's philosophy? Also a lot of poetry and some more academic essays.

Spoiler for Sample: Chaos:
You tell yourself your whole life that there’s no meaning, that it’s all chaos, that all there is is movement, and you move on. Then when chaos comes, you realize that chaos is just a word. A myth you constructed to avoid confronting all that’s wrong with the world. Chaos became god. And when chaos occurs you’re stuck with the absolute incomprehensibility of it all. Your god is gone. What filled the void of chaos’s chasm, the four letters saving you from harm, was what chaos really was.

You tell yourself again that you understand chaos now. That you can’t understand chaos, but even this chaos uproots from us. The bounds of the human skull, universal speck of skull, the skull itself just flesh and bone, cannot contain what we can never know. You try anyway. You try to know everything. The tower you build higher and higher, using cornerstones of what your I tells you is reality, what you’ve been forced to experience, the small pleasures and wistful flitters, that definition you used to know the unknowable. Tonnes of knowledge, distortions, deduced lies, fact, steel, copper, tin, asbestos, plywood, electricity arcing and flashing lightning, unseen, balancing on four letters and paradigms that only you may or might see.

Scraping skies now but the tower needs fixing. Pulling apart the rotting floors, the young spores of deadly mold, the fresh scent that drew you in. The wind pierces the voids where the Thesian building was adapting, or rather: adapted—passively. The swarm shifts around the base of the building perimeter and by changing, you’re newly aware of chaos again, that cornerstone of myth swiftly crumbling.

Pisanically the tower confronts the direction of chaos’s leaving. Nonpisanically comes teetering. Debris tore canvas overhangs and bore caverns into surrounding architecture. Spelunking through floors and suites, terraforming the artifice. A return to beginnings. A return to eternity. A return to nothing.

Even when you understand chaos it sinks new teeth you didn’t know existed, because chaos lives in every speck of this environmental prison. It simmers and sits, waiting for you to forget that you’ll never understand it. That it is everything it isn’t and is the way it is in ways that thwart what you’ve envisioned. And you pick up the shambles and spit in its face, saying “**** the world, **** the wind, **** chaos, **** existence. Just let me live.”

And it does, lying in wait to strike again. Waiting to force you out of your calm. And that silence should leave you haunted. When the chaos isn’t yours, chaos you become.

The Batlord 03-26-2021 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2167669)
bro literally blew like 50 dollars on scratch offs for the first time in my life lmao. I am not used to having extra money in the bank so I was like lemme just take a chance for once on a whim. I never gamble. Won $0. :o:
My juggalos friends from back in the day started buying scratchers and a couple of them won small amounts so I was like lemme try. Won a $1 and that ticket ended up getting destroyed in the rain.

Frownland 03-26-2021 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Ol’ Qwerty Bastard (Post 2167670)
Well ****, best of luck dude. Sometimes I miss writing but I've always struggled with motivating myself.
:beer:

I saw recently that Douglas Adam's (author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) hated writing, so even the best can struggle with it. It's rewarding but definitely a pain in the ass.

Trollheart 03-26-2021 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2167653)
Is this only about unfulfilled hopes and dreams?
Not at all. If your dreams came or are coming or are about to come true, fair play to you. Tell us about it.
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2167656)
All I ever wanted is for someone on the internet to admit I won an argument. Maybe one day...
Some things were never meant to be.
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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2167665)
I didn't have hopes and dreams as a kid in terms of career. That was part of the problem

I would like to be a writer but I don't really have the discipline. I don't think I could ever consistently put out content or even commit to writing a whole book. I write more sporadically whenever I get the urge.

But really I just wanna be rich/well off. I don't even need to be proper rich I'll settle for hood rich if I have to. Just wanna not be broke and not really have to worry about money.
It's going to sound like a cliche, but joining a writing forum really helps. Most of them have challenges, like you have to write a story in say 1000 or less words (some are as low as 100: they're hard!) and it really helps hone your skills, and because there's a time limit, makes you get up off your arse (or I guess, sit on your arse) and write. It's really helped me, to the point where I won two of the competitions, to my own very great surprise.
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2167675)
:beer:

I saw recently that Douglas Adam's (author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) hated writing, so even the best can struggle with it. It's rewarding but definitely a pain in the ass.
It's the hardest thing to do. You can sit there visualising all these great ideas, but getting it down on paper/screen is the hard bit. I've written an entire short story called "Heartless" in my head: now I just need to crack open my head (no volunteers, please! Stop pushing!) and get it actually written.

Raime 03-26-2021 09:47 PM
My dream is to be able to live completely by myself, and be able to afford all of my medical expenses. I don't see it happening anytime soon, me being a useless piece of **** baker (it pays ass).

adidasss 03-27-2021 12:41 AM
Ermmmm...not sure I had any particular dreams when I was young, but I'll play along with recurring day dreams, the most common of which are being a movie director, or a writer. Neither of which I ever thought I come close enough to realizing since I have zero talent for anything.

Apart from that, my hopes and dreams were simple, being financially independent and finding a nice boyfriend, both of which came true. :)

Trollheart 03-27-2021 06:26 AM
Meh, it's not a problem but I would confine your hopes and dreams to things you believed you might be able to achieve, had an interest in or talent for. I would never, for instance, have dreamed I would be a professional footballer, a rally driver or a horse trainer, as I had no interest in or capacity for those things. I did enjoy reading and writing from an early age (about seven) so I think it was a legitimate, as in, potentially achievable* dream to have.

We all dreamed we would be astronauts or fire-fighters or the president or whatever, and marry the most beautiful girl/handsomest guy in the world, make our fortune and live in luxury. But that's not what I'd call an achievable dream for most of us. Yes, they're all dreams but I'm talking here more about "when I grow up I hope to be" rather than "wouldn't it be amazing if..."

* given the right self-discipline, sacrifice, and of course the inevitable and vital lucky break that turns an aspiring author into an earning, even best-selling one.

The Batlord 03-27-2021 06:27 AM
Have you ever thought about writing smut? Probably easier to break into.

Trollheart 03-27-2021 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2167744)
Have you ever thought about writing smut? Probably easier to break into.
I have and I am, and it's being received very well by the other pervs. :)
Oh, and I see what you did there. ;)

The Batlord 03-27-2021 08:26 PM
Lulzcry

ribbons 03-28-2021 04:27 AM
My dream since childhood was to be a musician – primarily a studio musician, as I was shy and could never envision myself being on stage. Other dreams (although not nearly as strong as being a musician) were to be a professional tennis player or figure skater; I did have some aptitude for both, but was never formally trained mainly due to lack of funds in our family.

DianneW 05-08-2021 06:51 AM
I just wanted for nothing but the love of a Mother that was like my friends all had, my Sister got worse over time but she could handle it I was a very shy kid and just put up with it until I moved away not that I really got away from her... She died sometime in the last couple of years not sure exactly now as I can blank stuff like that, I never even thought about going to her funeral. Was not told even by my daughter when it was...
I wanted to play acoustic guitar and bought what I thought was a good starter one but was soon put straight as to the tuning issue. it did have a slight bend in the neck so the guy advising me said it was not worth the work he bought it off me though and I then got a cheap one,from would you believe Lidls supermarket about £40.00 and it was ok but really was not right for me size wise it was too bulky, so then gave that to a charity shop and bought an Epiphone make, still a cheap one really but the sound is good enough for my rough old playing..I enjoy, but do get annoyed with my poor ability to really make any headway. My sister met her late husband at guitar lessons and married him quite soon, once her divorce came through, so had all the help right on hand, literally.She is really good... Dreams now easy, stay fit and healthy.

Marie Monday 05-08-2021 12:22 PM
Sounds like you had a difficult childhood :(
Respect for getting through it all

SGR 05-08-2021 04:04 PM
My dreams? I just want to swim naked in a pool of whiskey, taking occasional breaks only to smoke my cigarettes. As the wisps of smoke lovingly leave my mouth, I want nothing but to be filled up with thoughts of regret, longing and nostalgia - meditations on what could have been but will never be.

And then I want to wash it all down with dirty martinis as I sit by a warm fireplace and read the Economist.

Marie Monday 05-08-2021 04:29 PM
I'd need a similar alcohol intake before I'd voluntarily read the Economist as a means of relaxation. But you do you, it's definitely a more sensible dream than a punk band called Emergency Tampon

SGR 05-08-2021 04:45 PM
What you got against the Economist?

I want to start a punk bankd called 'Tick on my Dick'

Marie Monday 05-08-2021 05:00 PM
nothing specifically against the Economist, it's just that the subject matter bores me
excellent band name btw

SGR 05-08-2021 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2172082)
nothing specifically against the Economist, it's just that the subject matter bores me
excellent band name btw
Cmon, aren't you interested in whether or not Indonesia is at a crossroad?

Marie Monday 05-08-2021 05:19 PM
I can't say I am

Mucha na Dziko 05-09-2021 01:50 AM
For five years now (which is pretty much my whole truly sentient life) I want to be a musician
The best thing that could happen is that I'd be the main composer/bandleader, or have a songwriting partner in an art rock, psychedelic pop band, with slight funk&soul elements


But when I was younger (like 7-15) I wanted to be a comic book artist
Now there ain't much left from that dream, apart from some comic books I still have that I wrote&drew, and occasional collage/drawings for my imagined album covers


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