Being Alive

[Darkdale]

I sit by the fire with a laptop and a beautiful woman.....

My woman gets annoyed if I bring my laptop upstairs when she is up there.

 

[michel]

My woman gets annoyed if I bring my laptop upstairs when she is up there.

Well, you need to do what I did - buy her one too!:biglaugh:

 

[Ormiston]

Well, I suspect I'll feel like this for the rest of my life. I think what I have to do is to become comfortable with restlessness and content with just kind of chilling out through life. If it wasn't for the fact that I see ambitious people running around all day, it would never cross my mind that being unambitious was wrong. It's just, ambitious people are so gosh darn successful lol, and they have more "stuff" and can do more activities... but we are blessed, I think, because we both seem to be quite happy reading a book, sitting by a fire, watching the leaves change, listening to an album and enjoying time with our friends and families... so really, there is nothing "wrong" or "bad" about it. But we are still restless, because we see all this damn hustle and bustle, these people creating billion dollar corporations, starting militant religious groups and fighting the west or wacky geniuses playing poker for a living and it's like, "wow... that's amazingl". But honestly, as amazing as it is, I don't want to do it myself. I want to sit by a fire with a book and a beautiful woman and that's about it!

Man! Now that was SWEET!!

 

[Hope]

I think there are different kinds of 'ambitious' and different kinds of contentment. I consider myself to be a bit 'ambitious,' but not in the 'climbing-the-corporate-ladder' type of way. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to go out and make a positive difference in the world. I am not content to simply sit at home, or work at an unfulfilling job. But, at the same time, I consider myself to be very content in other areas, such as with material things.