What is life all about?
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Who is MoonX
Our resident bum with an internet connection or what?
As for the OP, yea you didn't open that post very well mate, especially seeing as you've already stated you've "been around forums before" Surely you would know how people would react to that sort of opening!
Anyway, my thoughts:
Those who live to work are the crazy ones.
Those that live to work.... for someone else are truely bat**** insane IMO.
Earn enough to be comfortable and take a ****ing chill pill man
There are six "rooles" of life you should follow (you might have heard it before and then you may understand why I spelt it like that.
Trust yourself
Break the rooles
Don't be afraid to fail
Don't listen to the naysayers
Work your ass off
And most important of all
GIVE SOMETHING BACK...
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I haven't worked out what hte be all and end all is yet, so in the meantime, I'm just gonna try and earn some money, in case, when I find it, it's expensive.
Ill stand by not being a smug douche... as many have said you came across as in your opening post.
Is there a right way to live your life Hmmm?
Well if you are happy more than sad, healthy, have good friends, a loving family and living within your means regardless of your financial position i think that is a good way to have lived and live your life.
Ive spent a lot of time in Sweden this year and have come to appreciate that life is all about balancing work and "life" Something they seem to understand a lot clearer than most Londoners i know.
Be more philanthropic with your wealth and im sure that will bring more joy than hoarding it too, another thing i believe in.
Is there a right way to live your life Hmmm?
Well if you are happy more than sad, healthy, have good friends, a loving family and living within your means regardless of your financial position i think that is a good way to have lived and live your life.
Ive spent a lot of time in Sweden this year and have come to appreciate that life is all about balancing work and "life" Something they seem to understand a lot clearer than most Londoners i know.
Be more philanthropic with your wealth and im sure that will bring more joy than hoarding it too, another thing i believe in.
You were claiming to be rich, repeatedly and in a very tacky way that made it the centrepiece of your opening post. Which is why people generally ignored the secondary topic of your post. They didn't miss it. They interpreted it as nothing more than the framework for the centrepiece of your post.
A choice that requires being rich, so it's a moot point for the great majority of people.
If someone has accumulated a fortune (even a small one) in spare money over a period of time, then they have been consistently acquiring more money than they have a use for. Money isn't anything in itself - it's points that can be redeemed for stuff. Money over and above an amount used for practical purposes is a means of keeping score - the higher their score, the better they are doing in the competition. That makes it difficult to voluntarily withdraw from the competition and allow their score to go down - by the criterion they have been using all their life, that is giving up and therefore worse than failure.
If you have got a high score and have decided that it's time to stop playing World of Moneycraft and redeem your points for whatever it is that you find enjoyable (like spending much of your time on leisurely holidays in various locations), then it's not surprising that even if you think that's a good idea you'll have some nagging unease because you're no longer improving your score - the criterion that you're still to some extent using. Add that to the unease that is normal as a reponse to any major changes in your life and it would be more surprising if you weren't at least a bit uneasy and uncertain about your choice.
Sure, it seems daft and offensive to people who don't have and never will have your choices because they have to work to survive (which includes me, along with most other people), but it's still understandable and, in a very different frame of reference, a genuine reason for unease and uncertainty.
For what it's worth, I think you have the right idea. Not much point being rich if you don't redeem the points for whatever you want, whether that's charity or cars or holidays or advantages for whoever you choose to bestow them on or a statue of yourself 50 feet high so your name will be remembered for a bit longer.
As for what life is all about...it isn't about anything. It doesn't have a purpose. It just is. You can attach a purpose to it if you like, but there isn't any purpose inherent to it.