What are your lifelong dreams?

[theholygideons]

where is all the income from all your working hours going towards? a car, house, steinway piano? I know that material wealth is not the a permanent means towards happiness, but if you had to quantify how much it would cost to become financially independent and reach your dreams, how much would that be? I've heard that it's usually smaller than you think.

[Bob]

A little less than they used to be.  And a little more practical.

Financial stability, retirement, etc.  Existing.  Music is fine *as* the dream, but it doesn't help much in terms of paying for it.

[thalbergmad]

If I hadn't taken up the banjo, I would have been able to retire this year.

Thal

[j_menz]

If I hadn't taken up the banjo, I would have been able to retire this year.

Thal

And just think if you hadn't collected plinker concerti!

[thalbergmad]

Then I would have retired 10 years ago.

I had a couple of plinkers delivered today. Just can't stop myself.

Thal

[inverted]

Do well in university, find an interesting well-paid job, enter the upper-middle class, find pretty wife, have children (hopefully with bearable personalities and a love of music), buy a house, make a room in it my own room music, fill said room with every instrument I can afford.

(extension of dream) Raise a pack of super musicians, write music for them blending impressionism, jazz, and bach-ian counterpoint. Then find worldwide critical and popular success.

[ahinton]

Do well in university, find an interesting well-paid job, enter the upper-middle class, find pretty wife, have children (hopefully with bearable personalities and a love of music), buy a house, make a room in it my own room music, fill said room with every instrument I can afford.

(extension of dream) Raise a pack of super musicians, write music for them blending impressionism, jazz, and bach-ian counterpoint. Then find worldwide critical and popular success.

You don't ask for a lot, do you?!...

Best,

Alistair

[outin]

I guess I never was much of a dreamer...too practical for that and rather enjoy the ride...

At the moment I can think of only one thing I really crave for...that damn grand that I haven't found yet 

[inverted]

You don't ask for a lot, do you?!...

Best,

Alistair

There's dreams, and then there's dreams, you know?

[m1469]

Well, I'd like to be a teacher.  I am already a teacher, yes.  But, I want to be a much bigger sort of teacher, not just better at what I am currently doing (though that, too).  I'd like to perform and be a magical performer.  I'd like to compose a lot of music for complete beginners, intermediates, to advanced musicians/listeners.  I'd like to travel a lot.

I'd like to have some acreage to be alone in the forest on, as well as to have a farm, a large garden, a pond, and an orchard on.  And somewhere with an extremely peaceful and quiet room to myself.

I would like to be capable of helping people more.

I've got books (maybe lots?) to write, and I'd like to write those.  Research to do.  I have a very massive curriculum to pull together.  I've got drawings to draw.  I'd like to cook in perfect for me and my loved ones ways.  I have lots of photographs to take!

(...)

[outin]

Well, I'd like to be a teacher.  I am already a teacher, yes.  But, I want to be a much bigger sort of teacher,

That shouldn't be difficult, just eat more 

[kakeithewolf]

To save at least one human life. That's it. I've never wanted anything more than to pay off my natal blood debt.

[thalbergmad]

I have always wanted to do a fart that lasts one minute. My best is 38 seconds, so I still have a fair way to go.

Thal

[m1469]

Well, I'd like to be a teacher.  I am already a teacher, yes.  But, I want to be a much bigger sort of teacher, not just better at what I am currently doing (though that, too).  I'd like to perform and be a magical performer.  I'd like to compose a lot of music for complete beginners, intermediates, to advanced musicians/listeners.  I'd like to travel a lot.

I'd like to have some acreage to be alone in the forest on, as well as to have a farm, a large garden, a pond, and an orchard on.  And somewhere with an extremely peaceful and quiet room to myself.

I would like to be capable of helping people more.

I've got books (maybe lots?) to write, and I'd like to write those.  Research to do.  I have a very massive curriculum to pull together.  I've got drawings to draw.  I'd like to cook in perfect for me and my loved ones ways.  I have lots of photographs to take!

(...)

Oh, and as long as we are talking "dreams" ... I would also (still) like an apartment in "the" city.  Which city, I'm not sure.  Vienna? 

[mahmudfasihulazam]

Live off the grid, eat food that I grow, play jazz like Liszt(hahaha), swim fast, run fast, climb mountains, do parkour.

[kakeithewolf]

This isn't a dream, per se, but it's been something I'm always wanted to do: Play a game of truth or dare.