I’d like to travel the world with my fiance’ and have a great family with her. Hopefully we’ll get to a point financially where we can do that.
Are experiences not tangible material goods?
Making memories and enjoying life is what its all about.
I enjoy having a xxxhp car.
Some people like homes, some travel, some hookers and crack, different strokes for different folks.
Right now I want a PS3.
Well money can go both ways. You can purchase goods, services, donate it, whatever. In my case I was saying more I would sacrifice some cool shit to have the resources to do what I want, when I want to, and pay people to do the rest or just do without. I got a taste of it with my rich cousin out in SoCal. It’s super liberating to wake up when you please and decide, “I think I’ll go jet skiing today,” or “I feel like going to Cabo this weekend,” and booking it, or “I’m going to work on my boat,” because that’s what you feel like doing, or if your family members are down, giving them a call, “Hey, you need a vacation. I’m flying you to Jamaica to meet me next week.” as opposed to having to wake up early, go to work, then come home and do chores.
a lot of really good lists…tough to follow up. i don’t think i could list everything i’d want to do off the top of my head but some thoughts…
personal life:
- retire my mother ASAP. i know this isn’t “what you’d do if you were rich overnight” but i hate seeing my mom work as hard as she does.
- have a successful family in following of my parents and grandparents, since they have/had such amazing relationships with their family i would like to provide the same for children when i am capable
- have a love like none other. no homo. ha. yeah, i’d like to have a house with the nice white picket fence and a wife with 2 kids.
- stay “me” til i die. i don’t ever want to have to change for someone or something else.
- i love cars so even though it’s materialistic, there certainly are some cars i’d be thrilled to be able to afford, haha. but i’m happy with what i’ve got, too.
career-wise:
- influence the culture of DJing/music greatly- as a DJ i’d like to hopefully make it popular and “cool” to other DJs to understand the background as well as respect the art form and where it came from, and as well as make it “cool” to be a technically apt DJ again, if not make it obsolete to be anything but a competent DJ. i think that will be impossible to accomplish in my lifetime. as for music, change the divisions between genres and create a fan base that encompasses all demographics, not for profit or to “pillage cultures” but to have a non judgmental following that loves music regardless of “who its made for.”
- hopefully get into production and someday put out a few releases that make people feel the way i feel when i hear a record i love. i wish i could make music like some of the people i view as extremely talented, and i work hard to achieve that so maybe one day i can make something i’m really proud of. it’s not as easy as it seems, a lot of people rag on even popular music, but a lot of it is much more complex then meets the eye (or ear rather). i’m not really making music for it to be popular, i’m just making a point.
- i hope to someday be the guy who made someone go out and buy some records and find something they fall in love with like i did. not because i want to be the guy who started something, but more like because i just happened to turn them on to the idea. i feel like if i didn’t have music, i wouldn’t have put the work into anything else and i would have just been a bum working a shit job.
- tour the world, meet DJs and people involved in music, and just learn what things are like. sometimes when I go to other cities I meet opener DJs and other people that are just so cool, it’s like we all speak the same language and we “get” each other right away because we talk through our taste in records and production. i’ve met some really amazing people and barely knew them except for playing a show together, and it’s so fascinating to just talk to them, hear their opinions on life, our culture, music, and see how they live and what it’s like in their hometowns. fuck being a tourist, i don’t care to see landmarks so much when i’m out of town…i really like seeing how other people live their lives and spend their days. plus playing shows in new areas is so fun for me, i love seeing people have a great time and it’s truly the biggest rush ever for me to just put 100 percent in, and have people feel what you’re going for entirely and feel how you feel.
- yeah i’m about my money, but i’d make what i make now if i could know i’d be okay for the rest of my life doing what i do…we all wanna see millions, let’s be serious here. but more importantly i want to be happy til i shit the bed, too.
- and of course, it wouldn’t be honest if i didn’t say i want to someday be considered one of the best in my scene to ever do it. i know i’m a long way off though, so don’t take it as cocky…i know i’m far from it! but that’s what keeps me going every day.
yeah, that’s a lot of shit i wrote.
Hey we are all there at some point, when Hybrid was open all I wanted to do was get it to the point that I could let it run itself and not have to be there. That never happens…I worked soooooo fucking hard and sooo long and it was for nothing (well not nothing it was a good ride and life experience while it lasted). Every other aspect in my life suffered and in the end everything I was working for was for nothing because I had nothing to show for it. Life changing events serve good purpose to open your eyes to what is and what is not truly important. It’s like a giant smack to the head which helps you refocus and get a better perspective on life.
I didn’t read the rest of the responses until just now… Don’t get me wrong if someone gave me everything I wanted I wouldn’t say no. Material items are necessary as we live in a material world but I was more talking about not loosing sight of the more important aspects of life and what it is really worth living for.
You should own things, they should not own you.
i cant think of anything as of right now…i kinda just let shit ride.
fight club
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I used to have all these grand plans for what I wanted. I wanted a sports car by the time I was 30. I wanted a wife and 2 kids and to live down South. Things changed later in life.
At 36 here is my list:
-Continue to stay healthy and cancer free. CHECK - 9 years remission
-Get a classic car for my wife - Eventually. At least I still have the 69 Camaro that I’ve owned for 14 years
- Travel to Europe - Planning for 2012 for at least a 2 week trip
- Visit Hawaii again and snorkle
- Run for a small political office - Working on that
- Stay involved with local events and charities
- Enjoy life with my wife and dog - CHECK
- Have a job that I actually enjoying going to every day - CHECK