What do you want out of life?

[Virgil]

Without liberty the others cannot occur. Well, I suppose you can have life as a slave, if you consider that life.

[Maximilianus]

Too reductive. No idea what I want, but love is certainly one of the main needs, if not the need.
I just want to get out of life all I can before it's gone.

Well said, Dan

Just love, I don't ask for much.

I love you Mary I LOVE ALL OF YOU!

I voted "love". I'd like to have a family of my own some day, a husband and maybe four children.

Me too.
I want a wife, a daughter and a son. I picture wife and myself training our offspring in the ancient arts of warfare, music and poetry, like legendary heroes under mom's and dad's tutelage, and when they grow enough they would save the world, making mom and dad really proud...

I suppose... to be happy is all any of us really want from life.

Not really. I find that "happiness" is a thing to be obtained and kept, unlike one's Ipod or diploma. We cannot reach a state of "satisfaction" and then expect it to remain there forever. If I don't work at nourishing and cultivating it, I lose it.

A cheesy simile... Happiness is, in my eyes, like a garden one keeps. If you don't work at it round the year, it is bound to go wild and lose its beauty.

I am not sure why working towards making one's self happy would make them "unwhole" either... Working towards a certain goal always makes me feel excited and alive.

What a profound thought Scher, you really touched me!! Can I be your fan?

Without liberty the others cannot occur. Well, I suppose you can have life as a slave, if you consider that life.

Great point Virgil

[Adolescent09]

But both happiness and love are subjective. Jeffrey Dahmer claimed to love the victims he ate. He loved them so much that he wanted them to become a part of him. What is love in the end, but a deadly, beautiful game? Technically I have liberty but I'm still in a cage. This forum was an episode of my life that should have passed but I'm still here because I'm a sexually frustrated degenerate with no hope in life. Why can't I love to hate? Don't I have the liberty to do that? If I have the liberty to be a locked up animal I should have the liberty to love death. Why do I love death? Why do I think this way? Why don't I open up? Why am I on a forum with strangers who type behind a screen ten million miles away and are as cold as this cage I'm trapped in? Why care? Why liberty? Why life when love gives us so much more. Oh yes, I'm in love. I'm definitely falling in love. But my love will keep me in this cage forever. What point is there with that kind of love in the end?

[Maryd.]

Yea, Max loves me... Actually he loves all of us... Gosh... there's so much love on the thread today...

[Maximilianus]

Now I feel so loved!

[DanielBenoit]

I think I just walked into a lovefest.

[Maximilianus]

I think I just walked into a lovefest.

[Dr Jekyll]

I voted for love, because I can have liberty and life, but without love in my heart, I am truly unhappy and I can't have real pursuit for happiness unless I have love, the true meaning and the builder of the twisted paths of life.

[Annamariah]

Me too.
I want a wife, a daughter and a son. I picture wife and myself training our offspring in the ancient arts of warfare, music and poetry, like legendary heroes under mom's and dad's tutelage, and when they grow enough they would save the world, making mom and dad really proud...

Haha That's a nice picture you're painting here, but have you really thought it through? Could you send your beloved children out there to do the dirty work and save the world while you'd stay behind yourself? I don't think so. But hey, I'm sure the world can't wait until this hero family shows up and fixes all the problems of this planet (though it sounds like an awful lot of work for just four people)

[isidro]

I think I like the "Cheesy Smile" part....

[Maryd.]

I voted for love, because I can have liberty and life, but without love in my heart, I am truly unhappy and I can't have real pursuit for happiness unless I have love, the true meaning and the builder of the twisted paths of life.

That was lovely Dr. Jekyll. I'm overwhelmed.

[isidro]

Dr Jekyll, are you becoming the resident stud muffin of Lit Net? You are overwhelming people now!

[Maximilianus]

Haha That's a nice picture you're painting here, but have you really thought it through?

I have it all figured, as usual

Could you send your beloved children out there to do the dirty work and save the world while you'd stay behind yourself? I don't think so.

I would go with them (unless I'm crippled ), but first we would gather a powerful army... if we find any As I said, I have it all figured

But hey, I'm sure the world can't wait until this hero family shows up and fixes all the problems of this planet (though it sounds like an awful lot of work for just four people)

NOT FOR THE FANTASTIC FOUR!!

That was lovely Dr. Jekyll. I'm overwhelmed.

The Dr. spoke wisely

Dr Jekyll, are you becoming the resident stud muffin of Lit Net? You are overwhelming people now!

No, no, the Dr. is just lovely. The resident stud muffin is gonna be me, at any cost

[isidro]

Well your courage about taking over the world speaks to your favor. Let me know how it goes with the other ladies. Unfortunately it takes quite a bit to get my romantic regard.

Oops, back to the real conversation, i guess.

[Annamariah]

I have it all figured, as usual

At least there's no problem with your self-confidence Good luck with your mission!

Back to the original topic:

As I said earlier, I want to have a family of my own. But I don't really think that is very likely to happen, so I've got a few more realistic dreams too. Basically I want to graduate (with good grades) and get to earn my living as a translator, which is what I'm studying for. It would be great to be able to translate fiction, but as they pay very little for that, I know it will probably have to be more like a hobby and I'll have to make the money for living by translating something else. But my dream is to translate at least one good novel that will be published.