<p>One day you will be thirty. And you will be some sort of person.</p>
<p>Alive, happy, not a criminal or anything.
I think being happy in ways that don’t harm others is the most important thing. If you’re not happy, nothing else matters. If you are happy, everything else becomes okay. </p>
<p>To be more specific, this is how I want to be in thirteen years, or how I think I will want to be:
- Not overweight.
- No more acne.
- I want to grow out my hair so it’s waist-length or so.
- Highly educated in math/science, have a job that I like.
- Make enough money not to starve.
- No kids.
- Actually have friends.
- Live in a nice apartment. Buying a house just sounds too stressful.
- Still don’t have driver’s license…ride bicycle everywhere. This is a major pipe dream but I hate driving. I knew a guy who did this in northern Ohio. He had snow tires for his bike.
- Live in California? Maybe if I can afford it.</p>
<p>Happy. Preferably rich. Preferably sexy.</p>
<p>Happy 10char</p>
<p>Philosophically sound
Connected
Classy
Lean and fit
Ride my bike everywhere, as I hate driving too, and love cycling
A writer, musician
A banker, politician
eat only organic plant products (pipe dream)
Live the classy life, as a remake of Rockefeller and Kissinger put in one</p>
<p>Economist, author, would prefer to be famous, Ph.D.</p>
<p>By thirty, I want to have done something, or be doing something novel that pushes forward the boundaries of human understanding. Whether that means inventing, researching, or writing, is something I’m still not sure on, but that’s what I want to do with my life. </p>
<p>I just dread becoming mediocre, and just following everyone else in their “cushy” path to security and boredom. I cannot and will not let that happen to me in my life. I want to make sure that the world that I die in is different than the one I was born in, and I was the catalyst for this difference.</p>
<p>I want to be happy first and foremost. I want my PhD in something. I want to be in a great relationship with no children. I want to have traveled the world and I wish to be fluent in Korean and possibly Spanish.</p>
<p>I want to be the guy with more money than everyone else.</p>
<p>^I admire your nobility.</p>
<p>Nobody wants kids? No little munchkins? No lineage?</p>
<p>At thirty, I see myself just out of med/law/public health school, hopefully finding a good starter job in my chosen career. I’ll probably be living in the Boston area. I don’t know, I just hope I’m happy and on my way to actually achieving big things.</p>
<p>At 30, I will be doing acts of random kindness as my vocation as a student making infinite love exist.</p>
<p>My ARK to be a SMILE.</p>
<p>@Muta - I don’t really want kids either, lol. Raising/birthing a child is expensive, and there’s no way I’ll take temporary breaks from my job (hopefully I’ll even have a job) to give birth in the first place.</p>
<p>@Topic - Hopefully I’ll be fairly rich & in the upper income bracket. I don’t really want to have my own business or anything, I just want a stable and well-paying job. Organic food, baby. Although because of GMO cross-contamination, organic food isn’t really organic anymore…</p>
<p>@smileykins
You can’t say “happy”… we all want to be happy, duuuh! What makes YOU happy!!! That’s why we dream XD</p>
<p>The pursuitof happiness for its own sake is a rather meaningless and selfish endeavor at its base.</p>
<p>By age 30, I would like to become a well-recognized fine artist (painter, specifically) who dabbles in some writing. I’d probably get married to a girl who is also an artist. I have no interest in having children (there are too many humans as it is). No junk food, I will eat only a very healthful diet (preferably vegan). </p>
<p>I hopefully will regularly donate much of my income that I don’t need to charities, as well as doing volunteering. I might become active with certain organizations dedicated to social activism. After spending some time in a big city establishing myself as an artist, I may move to Japan.</p>
<p>@Philovitist,
the Pursuit of happiness is every human’s ultimate goal… Whether he/she is aware of it or not… what we define as “success” is our definition of “happiness”. whether it’s happiness because you feel achieved, or selfless, etc… Even the most altruistic acts are discretely in pursuit of a person’s own satisfaction- that he/she is finally on the side of the “good”… what I disagreed with in smiley’s case, is that, the pursuit of happiness in itself would get you nowhere… one should know what he/she wants, and it is by achieving his/her goal that he/she achieves the ultimate goal of happiness </p>
<p>(btw, you reminded me of the movie, “The Pursuit of Happiness”… it’s one of the best EVER … lol 
)</p>
<p>That’s not true, unless you decide to define happiness as if it is true (as if its definition = success). :/</p>
<p>And none of what you said contradicts my point, anyway.</p>
<p>Happiness is the emotion that results from knowing that you’ve achieved something worthwhile. It’s not the worthwhile thing, in and of itself.</p>
<p>Just like the bad thing that happens when your friend dies is not you crying over it, but your loss of someone close to you. You have to recognize some event as meaningful before you can feel an emotion about it, so it’s not the emotion that’s meaningful.</p>
<p>Feelings make bad things worse and good things better. They aren’t the good and bad things, themselves.</p>
<p>“The pursuit of happiness for its own sake is a rather meaningless and selfish endeavor at its base.”
This is what I am absolutely against… Everyone is pursuing happiness through what they do… And what I meant wasn’t happiness= success, but rather success= happiness… as in, with every success we achieve comes the feeling of happiness… may be you misunderstood my point there.</p>
<p>So, saying that “The pursuit of happiness for its own sake is a rather meaningless and selfish endeavor” is not right cuz you are pursuing happiness in every good deed u commit- the happiness that comes with success…</p>
<p>Anyway, matter of opinion</p>