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a purpose in life

Posted: November 28th, 2011, 8:49 pm
by stilltrucking
I want to
sail to ireland, single handed in a sloop

I could make a plan,
all I would need is maybe 50,000. I could save that in ten years if I am frugal and the government keeps on printing money.

I would be the first man to sail around the world at the tender age of 81 since Josuha Slocolmb did it over a hundred years ago..

I want to die a good death.
With a burial at sea

that is my bucket list for today

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: November 28th, 2011, 8:57 pm
by SadLuckDame
Makes me happy to know you'd still set sail and have not stopped imagining it.
I don't want you to die.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: November 29th, 2011, 9:53 am
by stilltrucking
Before I die I would like to read Homer in Greek, Nietzsche in German, and Camus in French. Actually I have read one novel by Camus in French already, so I guess I can cross that off the list.

I hope I live long enought to see Isabella Rose graduate from high school or even medical school. Those with children have their purpose wrote large I think. Maybe just envy or jealously on my part. I want climb to the top of the great pyramid at Machu Picchu and see the sunrise. I want to see the cathedral of Notre Dame close up.

Day fades into day, another pay check, that is all I got going for me these days, pay checks and giving away most of my money to my sister and brother in law. I can hardly lie to myself enough anymore. Homeboy was right it was crazy to move here, but I needed a purpose. I suppose I would rather have the void for a purpose than be without a purpose.

I would like to finish reading at least one novel by Henry Miller, and one by Anais Ninn. I would like to read the Bible in Greek and Hebrew, make love to one more beautiful woman, race a gran prix car at LeMans, I would like to finish my vegetables and then have dessert.

"Eat dessert first because life is uncertain"

Morning maniac writing
my whole purpose in life has come down to these random text boxes.'

thanks for reading dame, and taking the time to reply
I am doing my best to keep on keeping on

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: November 29th, 2011, 8:03 pm
by SadLuckDame
I'm not sure what I want, but makes me interested in taking some time to think about the places I'd go, what I'd like to do and make an attempt to actually do them, instead of my dreaded procrastination. :P
I liked your list.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: November 30th, 2011, 11:58 am
by the mingo
Death at sea is vast and lonely Jack - procrastinate on that one.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 1st, 2011, 11:34 pm
by stilltrucking
I forget which one of my alter egos on studio eight has the tag line from a Ray Bradbury novel "Death is a Lonely Business"

No I am in no hurry,
but you would not know it from the life style I am living,
suicide by strawberry rhubarb pie.

I heard a good motivotional song today to help me onto a thinner and healthier 71 year old body .

The song was called "Broken Hearts are for Assholes"
ain't it the gospel truth


Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 1st, 2011, 11:52 pm
by tinkerjack
One more trip I am going to make while I still can, I want to take Old 30 one more time


Any highway just for a while to have that sense of motion, the groove of looking far down a highway

I used to like the thought of dying alone in the sleeper cabin of a truck parked behind some meat packing plant in texas, or at produce market in california.
crazy mike died alone at the wheel of his truck. Stopped at a red light in DC. I tried to imagine that as so sad. Now I wonder what it matters. Just so I am halfway to heaven before the devil knows I am dead. I suppose.
My older self mourning my younger self.

I am not so concerned as to the where anymore
I can think of a thousand deaths, so many deaths inflicted by life style choices.
But I am so happy. Fat old Buddha. I have not smoked a cigarette in months, I suppose I am taking some responsibility for myself. God all mighty I had a fucking colonoscopy for christs sake. If that ain wanting to live I dont know what is.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 1st, 2011, 11:54 pm
by tinkerjack
send a donation to the poet's eye
now that is something I can do tomorrow.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 2nd, 2011, 12:18 am
by SadLuckDame
Here's what my friend showed me and I wanted to share with you, too.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 2nd, 2011, 12:40 am
by stilltrucking
Powerful music
Now there are some people with a noble purpose in life, they are "Playing for Change"

thanks for posting it
You cheered me up before bed, I think I am going to be able to sleep right away.

Have you heard any good books lately.

Did I say I was writing a book?
What book did you want to see.
Only thing I am writing is here on studio eight
Lordy I am so over employed these days working for rum and coca cola I got no time to be writng a book.
the days twirl by the money flows in and goes out
the situation is always desperate, I have no idear where the money goes.. bills, lots of bills. a viscious circle, the life style the afflictions of the lower classes.

I been thinking about Argentina which through a simple twist of fate is not my homeland.

Nothing to do with this thread, just thinking about the despair behind the american dream these days. Change, Argentina seen some changes in the past thirty years. You know what is strange about Arcadia for me, I used to respond to her posts for years before I realized she is a woman.
Argentina’s Nuevos Pobres since
the Corralito
From Despair to Adapting to Downward Mobility

Daniel Ozarow
September 2007 - Professor Maxine Molyneux
MSc Globalisation and Latin American Development
http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/834/1/SAS%20 ... Ozarow.pdf
Late long day my thoughts wonder to distant lands
thanks for being a pal.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 2nd, 2011, 9:57 am
by stilltrucking
two more reasons to live
Seafood and Calvin and Hobbes

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 4th, 2011, 10:50 am
by SadLuckDame
K, I've been thinking of what it is I'd like if I had a chance of it,
which means none of it might happen, but I'd have a thrill if it did.

I'd want to travel with someone who makes me smile and laugh.
Mostly I can only imagine going by way of car with me in the passenger seat wanting to photograph everything neat we drive by, wanting to stop at places that catch me up by it's strings and just feel glorious over and over. Him whistling and playing tunes on the radio. Him not minding if the window's down or if I've such oddities as running down the street barefoot cause the ground changed to a nice texture.

I could also like going by train and boat.

I really do want to see such places out of country, like Paris and Italy, Ireland and Scotland. I just don't know how it is I'd travel there. Something to work out, I s'pose.

I want someone who will introduce me to interesting situations.
Going out to darkened little joints with jazz players and candles, piano bars. If he wants to paint my figure or paint on me, or put clay across my shoulder. I like to think about that. Maybe he'll paint on my face in artistic fashion.

We could create things together, build, learn new building options, make stuffs from stuffs, learn a foreign language.

Help children. I'd like to foster care, or just help children from around the world, community a lot, actually improve their circumstances. This part reminds me most of my father, he used to drive an old school bus to pick up the very needy and uncared for children for Sunday school. We'd go to their homes, the parents were drunk and black and blue. My dad would take them roller skating and to puppet shows with us, we'd order pizza and get candy.
I guess we just always wanted bigger arms to hold them up, because it got us no where not to, but it felt really lively to be doing something.

I always want someone who will tell me stories.
But, I do at least get to have that from here and our friendship. :P

I'd like someone to help make this dirty world a much more likeable environment by painting it yellow, green and colorful, even if we both know it's dirty underneath.

Hmm, to be o.k. about my giving just because I wanted to, not because it was something to stop and think about. I like to be spontaneous with that sort of thing instead of worrying about if I paid the bills firstly. If it's Toys for Tots, food drives or just some crazy catlady neighbor next door wanting a package of bread and milk and sugar. Nothing makes me more unhappy than if a person tells me I'm not being logical and that I should use the monies elsewhere...blah. Makes things so harmful to me.

And I'd like him to read Bible stories with me, want him to know the importance of keeping my spirits up that it is of an importance and joy for me. Not to think that that is stupid.

To help me with my smarts and we can encourage each other.
That he'll find me helpful to him, not see me as a mess always.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 4th, 2011, 11:19 am
by SadLuckDame
Oh! I haven't started a new book to read yet, Jack. But, I am thinking of reading War and Peace by Tolstoy. Did I get that right? Gonna go checks real quick. Or I have a book by Virgina W. that I might pick up.

My friend is going to share his copy of The Red book from Carl Jung with me soon, I just haven't made an attempt to get together with him yet. Takes a lot to get me out of the door most of the time. :P

What are you reading now or next time...

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 5th, 2011, 11:53 am
by gypsyjoker
"I found what my special purpose is for!" Navin R. Johnson

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/reviews


I picked up a interesting book called "A History of Reading" So far I have just browsed the chapter titles and dedication. I will see if I can get started on it. Takes a lot to get me started on a book these days.

I still have a few pages left to finish in "Love In The Ruins" and I have still not read "Tropic of Cancer" Mainly I listen to books these days.

Re: a purpose in life

Posted: December 6th, 2011, 12:12 am
by SadLuckDame
I still need to figure that out, the listening to book thing, cause really I can see it to be useful and maybe even to help me with driving and mellowing out my anxieties there.

Can you get Tropic of Cancer as an auto-book?