Are you where you want to be (a thread about Ambition ! )

I am busy!

Never said I wasn't - just still have lots I want to do!

 

Oh I get ya. I was just saying a saying hehe.

 

doing art and music on a daily, some writing here and there. chillin' like a villain and steering clear of problematic people. so yea.

 

Yep. Busier than I've ever been with 5 courses, volunteer work, 2 huge club gigs coming up, a husband AND a boyfriend and 4 pets. I wouldn't change it for anything (though I do wish I had more time in the day).

Life is good. It's amazing how it all falls into place when you remove toxic people from your life.

 

What do you want to know???

 

Your story ? and the thing that has Eluded you (thus far )

 

I'll keep it brief. I was a happy child, depressed teenager, a confused young adult, and now i seem to have hit my golden years. My biggest turning point was getting involved with spiritual practices when i was about 23 or 24. Looking back it seems silly but it was exactly what i needed. Especially during those times. I use to practice darkness meditation and zazen. Which played a big role in clearing my mind, increasing my awareness, confronting my bullshit, and helping me stay focused on the path i've chosen to live out. Right now i'm still pursuing my passions in life but realize i still have much growing to do as a person. Which is happening gradually.

 

Doing graphic design as i have a love of drawing things

 

Something doesnt ad up there. Then why 28 years?


i assume you are talking about Bavaria land, but the situation is similar to Sydney / Melbourne, the only reason reason for the higher than inflation rate of housing growth the last 15 years has been matching rises in immigration

Even without a mortage, you work out everything it costs you, and you really need the gross value of that house to increase by 10% a yearto end up matching 3% you might get in a high interest savings account

2 main areas where everyone goes wrong:

1: Increase in value of a house doesnt compound regularly say like superannuation would, nterest on the interest, 5 tears in it means nothing, but 28 years in, the 28 years of interest on the interest you got 26 years ago.....

2. Because it doesnt compound, doesnt keep up with inflation. That 10% increase in the gross value has a hidden -2% every year

Then theres ongoings, cost of renovations yada yada

Buy a house, you really need the thing to increase in value at least 10% a year for like 50 years for it to match, as an investment something like super or shares. Think a lot of people just have kind of been hoodwinked with house price growth the last 15 years, thinking it will be that way forever

I wouldnt touch property now

My super has been doing 12-15% a year for the last decade, that only gets taxed at 15% and compounds half yearly, similar with managed funds

As crazy as Sydney house prices have gone up, I still have made about double what I would have if I had sunk it into a Sydney home


You need to have a look at that, especially for 28 years. You have whatever money you have in it, tied up, not earning compounding interest, fingers crossed in 2038 the value of its not going to plummet, fingers crossed mortgage rate stays at 4/5%

Short version: I think you are mad, sell at least one, stick that money in your super, watch what happens, you will get twice as much as your rental income, never have to pay for a plumber...and all wihout having to do fuck all....then 6 months after that you get interest on the interest

 

Not me, I got really sunburnt once, thats about as hard as my life has been

 

I'd give my life like an 8/10. I love my job it's challenging and interesting, I'm on track to retire by 50, and I moved downtown, so now I walk three blocks to work.

I'm dating an awesome girl who kinda looks like daenerys targaryen. I caught the flu the week of Thanksgiving. Ever since I've been getting exercise everyday and doing one small good deed a day. I've had a few misses... it happens. I spent my mid 20's traveling the world, and my passport has extra pages.

Not everything worked out like I had imagined. I envisioned having kids by now, but life threw something unexpected at me. I'm seeing my father again after 16 years, but only because he's dying. My feelings about the issue are complicated.

This is more personal information then I've ever put on facebook.

 

i don't believe in ambition. i believe in trying to act in such a way, that if more people did, our world would be one everyone could enjoy.
didn't say i was very good at it. just at looking at how things work, trying to figure it out, and other then enjoying life as best i can,
making this my priority.

other people i guess, a lot of other people don't see it that way, but no matter how well you feather your own nest,
you still have to some of the time, pass through the same world everyone else has to live in.
the same one that is the statistical sum of how all of us, each added up, choose to act.

so i've never ended up living a conventional life, what is a conventional life for the mainstream of culture around me.
it might have been nice to have been better off economically, but other then that, i'm glad i didn't.

if everyone lived the same life, of trying to score more symbolic value then each other,
i fail to grasp what would be the point of doing so.

imagination and diversity of imagination, is worth more then all the little green pieces of paper on this planet.
symbolic value is only good for one thing:
acquiring whatever you need to make that things that express your own imagination by making them,
that and exploring each thing that interests you that you have yet to learn.

of course the more generous you are, the more you actually help others, that is the real status too.

 

Because I took a 30 year loan and I've paid 5 years but I then went and used the money I had paid off to buy my truck which was about 3 years of paying. 28 years.

That's just technically 28yrs. I know I will probably pay if off sooner.

 

I've got a good woman. I work. Not what I planned, but I don't hate it.

Me and my family don't talk though. I'm lonely at times

 

Ugh, I wish my family would talk less