Where am I going

david hobbs · Where am I going

Most people have a to do list. Mine gets longer as my life expectency shrinks out.

I wonder what is on your to do list. To do before your time runs out.

You tell me your's and I'll tell you mine

meiah

I'd like to learn to waltz.
Visit the Giants Causeway.
Go to the Galapagos Islands.
Paint something.
See York (going this summer)
Talk with a native American Indian....dunno what about, just to learn perhaps.
Have a dress designed for me that I look and feel amazing in.
See a puffin in the wild, not a zoo.
See the Northern Lights.
Experience weightlessness.
Go to a barn dance, and dance like I just don't care.
Stand on a glacier.

The list goes on. as I get older, some things drop off, and somethings go on. I do as many as I can each year. They are my dreams....my what if's....and so I do them.

evergreen

oh yes the list is growing I never really had one before now I'm tick tick ticking as I am add add adding.....

david hobbs

You know what........

I am having a hard time thinking of things that I want to do.

Lack of imagination you might think and you could be right.

Now let me think.!!!!!!!!!!!

Funny isn't it but I am a very restless kind of a man and yet I realise that even though it is not all wonderful my life is good and I actually do what I like doing when I like doing it.

Mrs H has her many requests God bless her and my side stepping has become quite as awesome as any England rugby winger going for the line. OK Mrs H is definitely not a push over and I would believe that at my peril, but we have a sort of unwritten agreement. I do what ever I like as long as she is happy. If she is not then I may just bend with the prevaling wind a wee tad.

Dammit I want to see my grandchildren grow tall and strong and be healthy and happy and that will do me just fine.

Yes I guess that is it.

Oh and I want my cat to have a good life too.

evergreen

David you are a real softie

david hobbs

Well it's either that or I have no ambition left.

I think you can walk a thousand miles but you are never any closer to being content.

That comes from within.

I have been driving my father in law all over Essex for the last two weeks. He doesn't say much at all because he is in a small canister which I keep forgetting to take to the funeral parlour.

Any way he always used to say "the only thing in life worth having is peace of mind"

He was right.

Now he's dead right.

beantighe

Couldn't agree more, David.

I was having trouble answering this thread, because I don't really have any ambitions for myself any more.

All I want for myself is security, a permanent roof over my head, and my hubby to share it with for as long as humanly possible.

I want my three girls to be settled and happy, and at the moment, two of them are, so two out of three ain't bad, and the third one's working on it!

I don't have any grandchildren as yet - I think my elder two have problems in that department, sadly for them. I know I had three of my own, but I'm not the goo-goo gaga type, and I know I'd be the world's worst granny!

And I just wish my elderly cat Pixie would come home safe and sound - he hasn't been in for his breakfast this morning, which is highly unusual, so I think he's been shut in somewhere, and I'm out of my mind with worry.

meiah

I am in two (or more) minds.

My list is of experiences. Why live your life and not experience it? Do you really not want to experience anything else that is new to you?

Is that a lack of ambition? I am (relatively) content....well am getting there, but there's so much that I have no knowledge, learning or experience of. And they are just there. Maybe I am just younger then you, and so I have not done or seen everything I can.

I haven't been in a lighthouse yet, or watched the sunset from the light room. I spent the night in the desert. I haven't seen an octopus or a sea horse in the sea. I haven't been to an Inca temple and felt the ages and history. I haven't laughed at the moons reflection in a pool in Wiltshire ( don't ask).

And I will. Its not a dissatisfaction, or a longing as such. But how amazing would it be to do those odd things that pop into your mind now and again. And having thought them, why not experience them?

It makes me feel more alive. Its living rather than existing.

Ok, things happen each day that I haven't thought of yet, but sometimes just doing something makes you more aware of the other things, the everyday things, and so you live.

I can't explain.

beantighe

I understand you too, Meiah. And yes, you're probably a lot younger than I am. Most people are, lol!

I also know what you're getting at with the moon in a Wiltshire pond! It's the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers, right?

The story goes that some smugglers hid barrels of contraband brandy in the pond. When the excise men found them raking in the pond to get the barrels out, they pretended to be village idiots and said they were trying to rake the Moon, which was reflected in the water, out of the pond!

david hobbs

It matters not if you need to have new experiences because you will. That is what life is all about.

Perhaps as you grow older the new experiences are accepted more easily

No experience is in my opinion a good experience if it does not come into a space where peace of mind exists.

Needing newness simply demonstrates a lack of contentedness with the now.

Newness is wonderful, but I would rather be happy if at all possible.

meiah

meiah

david hobbs

Hey perhaps I can meet Beeny when I am down in June or July!!!

I do hope Swanny can make it.

Raymond

Just found this thread.

First and foremost, be my own boss. I hate dancing to the tune of somebody else's fiddle. (That's unlikely to happen while we still hava a Labour government).

Learn to Morris Dance.

Hold a full moon rite at Stonehenge or some other sacred site.

Be able to say I've travelled all over the UK.

Find my truth. (I'm nearly there, but not quite.)

Be happy, no,.... happy is the wrong word, I'm already happy. 'Content' is probably a better word.

Meet a Witch or Druid who comes from a real hereditary craft family and not someone who pretends to be an hereditary just because their Great Aunt Maud read tealeaves.

I'm sure there's more but that's all that springs to mind at the moment.

beantighe

I like those, Raymond! Especially the one about travelling all over the UK. That's one of my biggest regrets, too. There's so much of this country I haven't seen. It's truly amazing the different landscapes there are in such a relatively small country, including all the islands around the coasts.

David, if you are able to make a small detour in my direction when you're down this way, you'd be most welcome to pop round! Let me know in time, and I'll even have cake!

Raymond

Oh don't get cake Beany, you'll never get rid of him.

beantighe

No, but my cake might! (only joking!!)

david hobbs

Now listen to me you lot.

It seems that a certain person who shall remain nameless believes that all I am interested in is cake, cake and more ruddy cake!!!!!!!

This is a wicked and slanderous untruth.

I like golf too.

So Raymond wants to do a ritual at an ancient site.

How's about Avebury.

I don't think there is a law against it and it is fully accesable.

Beeny. Plans are afoot to meet at Avebury this July. I shall fix the date very soon.

As soon as I talk Mrs H into letting me have a short break in Wiltshire at Alton Barnes. I choose July because it is crop circle time. She hates camping and I love it so I think that she will understand.

beantighe

Oh David! I've just had the same difficulty with another meet-up at Avebury - I just can't get there, it's too far and transport's a nightmare! I can't think of any way round it.

Raymond

I don't do camping. (Not the 'tents' variety anyway.)
I've never understood why people stay in tents. I mean, where do you plug in the hairdryer and where do you put up the ironing board?

Any reasonably priced B&B's in the area?

beantighe

Shave your head and go naked, Raymond.

Job done!

Raymond

oooooh,... I don't think Avebury (or anywhere else for that matter) is ready for that.