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Mon Aug 08 2005

Have you ever had your plans for life happenings as you plan them? Actually, do you have plans for life? Not the ones that you’d put in your organiser for the next week or month or even year…But the Big Plan. Something that you’d think, you can achieve, so that you can say in the end of your life: I’ve reached my target and I’m satisfied with how I did it.

When I thought of this, surprised I was to discover that the biggest ever plan I’d have would be for something like education, travel, living place, what I’ll do today, tomorrow, in a month and next year and what I’ll do “one day”, with absolutely no clue when this day will happen. What I noticed, that as much as I’m good on planning short terms things, I’m very bad in making life-time plans. In fact I have none. No solid, thought throughout, calculated and predicted in deadlines. What I do have for long terms – just dreams. You know, the ones, that might never happened and the ones that are completely bollocks…Sometimes I even doubt if I believe in my dreams myself. Maybe I just use them as an excuse for getting something else…I don’t know…we can say “The Dream Of My Life”, but what does it actually means? And what happens when you’d have one of those and it came true? The life is over or what? If this sounds sceptical, it probably is.

Again, this was something, I asked myself back in April 2003, but never found the answers:

Is there any “general concept” of the deadlines for dream-realization process? How long one would wait for this and when he supposed to “give up”, proclaiming his dream unfulfilled? Do dreams have “use by” date? Maybe- it depends of the scale of the dream? I mean – for small, “domestic” dreams the deadline could be shorter, otherwise – it’ll run out of fashion. As for the “bigger” dreams… how long one can live with hope, for how long they can draw plans and balance their real current world with the shaky shady imaginary one?..

4 Comments
  • From:
    Unused (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Aug 08 2005
    I feel very much the way you do. I too am crappy at long-term planning. Nowadays I don't even bother, I just let things work out for themselves in their own sweet time. And when they don't go the way I wished they would I just brush it off as "bad luck" or "wasn't meant to be".

    It's kind of embarrasing really. I'm 20 and i'm still not quite sure what I want to do with my life. I have a couple of vague plans but that's as good as it gets hehe!
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Aug 08 2005
    Realizing dreams is not living and hoping. It's living and doing.

    And deadlines can always be revised, as long as the doing is still going on.

    Shalom
  • From:
    Waterfall (Legacy)
    On:
    Mon Aug 08 2005
    no never ask that question before but I guess I have it I wanted a decent hubby a life like my parents had well I got it it's not perfect but nether was my parents so the only thing missing is a chiled and andy more than a mouthful to deal with and my pets and hubby and his mom so in a way I got to menay but still dream of a little baby in my arms oh well it will never be but it's nice to dream. oh and yeah i've got a lot info on my diet and I don't plan on ever going off it anyway mine is a modifide diebetic low carb diet it's not quite like the others but still does what it needs to do to lews weight and the only reason I'm trying to do that is for my diebeties see if I lows the weight controle it with this diet keep the pounds of I may never go on the pills or neddle and I hat neddles yuck so i'm trying to take care of it now so I don't wind up like my mom she pased away in a dibetice comma about 2 years ago . talk later water. or kira.
  • From:
    Dreamerbooks2003 (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Aug 09 2005
    Well you had a dream to visit Egypt and you did that!
    You had a dream to learn english and you did that
    I'd say you come through pretty positive on living up to the dream
    whatever it is..
    as far as a big dream.. Mine is for peace..
    now what are the chances of me seeing that in my lifetime??
    Sounds like something miss america pagent would say.. But truly world peace.. lofty goal
    :P