Choice
 

imagine you are told you have to make a choice: 1) you can live 50 more years, but will never achieve the goals you set, and will only find mediocre levels of success in all areas of your life. 2) you have 18 months to live but you will be granted everything you desire during that 18 months.

Which would you choose?

50 years. Most people are lucky to get mediocre success across the board.

yeah, what she said.

moderate success beats being dead.

Depends on your age... I'm 24, I wouldn't like to die in 18 months, but maybe in 50 years ore more I would be glad only living 18 months but having succes with my last few plans.

Re: Choice
 

wait a minute. what if one of the things i want is to live to be 100, and i'm only 33 now?

I'll take the 50.

I find my goals are frequently subject to change without notice.

Re: Re: Choice
 

i thought you were already in your 70's???

i'm going to take the 50, i've found that its usually when i fall short of a goal that i find something that really improves my life anyway.

the being dead in 18 months doesn't bother me, but i think i would get bored if i was guaranteed everything i wanted i would get.

Re: Re: Re: Choice
 

well, my soul is over 900 years old, but this body is a sprightly 33 years, 9 months, 13 days, 11hours, 55minutes old

Re: Re: Re: Re: Choice
 

no it's not. it has been more than a minute since you posted this.

Isn't life itself an alloted amount of time to achieve your goals?

I mean, racking up years isn't like collecting bags of money, there's no point in hoarding time if you've lived a full life, right?

18 months, and I achieve all my goals? No matter how lofty my goals are?

I'll take it.

I see the 50 years as an extended limbo, a purgatory in which you can never diverge from the middle of the road.

Give me 18 months and the assurance that my goals to make the world and those around me infinitely better, and I'll die satisfied and comfortably.

pffffffffffffftt - who said anything about improving the world. i'm thinking, like, a 3-some with alyssa milano and charlize theron....

LOL

the thing you overlook is that the fulfillment of your goals is only satisfying because of the uncertainty of acheiving them. If you know going in that you will acheive them all, how is your life any better than someone who hits it half the time?

*bows with respect to the master*

you are ready for the next phase in you journey.

Depends on your viewpoint.

Achieving a goal is not an endpoint, it is a beginning.

Grasshopper, when you can snatch the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave the monastery.