I'd like to be a test pilot for a relativistic spaceship and then hijack it and retire to a log cabin on some planet with a view of the galaxyrise out the window:



Ah well. Realistically would like to be an astronomer and biker. Made steps towards both this year...got my motorcycle license and i'm back in college

Lol, I would get back the land I was going to inherit, build a house, and maybe get into ironworks.

I'm mostly happy with my life, so the only real thing I would change is I wish I had more/better opportunities to PERFORM music. Composing and producing music is all great, but for me the real deal is when I can present it live to an audience. Unfortunately work and life gets in the way... The next gig is on friday, but I have no chance to rehearse since I'm stuck on an island for a work seminar until late thursday evening

I would meet Devin and buy a copy of Addicted right now at a very high price.

But who would'nt ?

I'm only just a Junior in high school right now but... I hope I can make it through high school. Good grades and such, I just transferred to a catholic private school, not being religious at all D:(i'm more like dev and on the spiritual side... into nature and that jazz) I'm privileged though, it gives me a much better opportunity(or so they say).. haha, and to get accepted into a good college (Berklee is on my list, like that'll happen :O never hurts to try though) I'm in a band currently, I would LOVE if we were able to record and one day I'll be able to make a living off of making music with them. We have all the music, we just need to get ourselves out there...

Should probably get through the next few years first though, huh? It's extremely interesting to read what everyone else has to say.

although im pretty lucky with life already with having a heart transplant when i was younger, i still wish i did my apprenticeship as soon as i finished year 12 so i could be fully qualified and be able to afford a house right now and just relax in my own place with my loving partner. and of course id like to have more money but who wouldnt.

Also wouldnt mind having a bit more music knowledge. i love recording music just my guitar playing sometimes lets me down when trying to get ideas out of my head.

To have been born female? Not having to go through the shit process to change my gender?

Haven't read the 6 pages of response - just the original question, but I'd take it as it is right now with some more money and some more space. Family Man. Working Man. Simple Man.

my current life + the ability to teleport myself anywhere in the world and universe.......ahhh the adventures i would have

[JuZ]

I'm another that would like an ailment to piss off... I have Meniere's Disease and have missed quite a bit of work in the past two months because if it. So to not have that at all would be great. And for my nearest and dearest to all live long and healthy lives (especially my uncle who is not well) would be wonderful.

Other than that, the freedom to work when and where and how I want, without being answerable to anyone but my own conscience would be great.

Materialistically, I'd like a big house on a great surfing, walking and fishing beach, with a tangle of empty lakes and inlets to fish from nearby. Would also like a large private yard (acreage really) and plenty of room for pets to roam, for my wifey and I to grow our own food, and raise a few goats or cows for milk (chooks for eggs too). And space left over for future kids to run amok in. Thanks!

If I'm being particularly fanciful I'd like to be able to fly, and to travel anywhere through space and time instantly. I'd also like to eat, drink and otherwise sample the undiscovered wonders of the universe as I please without negative repurcussions to myself or anyone else. The Anthony Bourdain of the wider universe.

I'm working my little spotty socks off to get the life I want. In the near future I want a little house that I can fill with crap in North London and decorate each room like it should belong in a cartoon. Get the biggest bunny I can afford to live with me and call it Gilgamesh, don't mind if I have a housemate or two. I want to be working at Madame Tussauds Studios and working on films and music videos in my free time. I want a Land Rover to satisfy my love of midnight greenlaning. Several years down the line I want to be an established SFX artist and have my own shop with my friend from costume design in St John's Wood (where most famous people in London appear to be living these days), selling hand made costumes and SFX gear with a fitting room/studio upstairs or downstairs (for rich people who want the best fancy dress parties or theatrical/film production companies). And settle down and have a family of course.

So basically, the only life I would want is that, and I WILL get it.

Although...I wish I stuck to learning the drums or at least tried a different instrument, all my friends are in bands except me!

I feel particularly blessed and am pretty happy with my life as it is. I'm reasonably healthy, have a wonderful wife, my twin boys are the most awesome things ever to happen to me, I'm self-employed and I have two offices so I can come and go and I please, I'm in a creative industry so don't have to shave if I don't want to, I can wear whatever I want to work, I have an awesome house with a home studio where I can paint and record music to my heart's content.

The only thing I would change is to be completely financially independent and never have to worry about money ever. With that in mind, my house would then have several sub-basement levels which contain very elaborate home theaters, fully equipped recording studios, wine cellars and an indoor swimming pool. During the week I would paint caricatures and give them away to friends, I would record albums and send a copy to whoever wanted one. I would get to play with my kids every day. Friday afternoons would be spent at the pub or a bar with mates, then each Friday evening a different band comprising my favourite musicians would turn up and I would play 2 sets of my own material and people would dance and enjoy themselves.

I would also have the physique of a martial artist without having to do any exercise and be able to eat whatever I wanted. For my wife's sake, I would also never snore.

Ro

I've only just seen this thread - what a great thing.

Me?

I'd grab my boots and walk the coastline of Britain - simple as that.

I spend a lot of time walking these days - it's good for health and equally good for my 'self'. Some days where I'm out for a walk I get the feeling I just want to carry on walking to see places and enjoy what's over the next hill or round the next corner. I can't think of anything better than staying in b&b's or wherever and just going out each day with nothing to worry about except the next few miles. Yeah, there would be some days where it was cold or rained but hey, that's life as much as anything else is. You'd just enjoy the next sunny day a little bit more. 2,400 miles? It just takes as long as I want it to.

If I won the lottery (which I don't play so go figure that one) I'd be in the hiking shop the next day and on the road the day after.

Without going into the realms of science fiction, pretty much my life exactly as it is now but with more money so I could have a big holiday home with a swimming pool, somewhere hot in America, and a few more nice guitars. Other than that, pretty happy with my job, my wife, my friends, don't see much need to change that. I live in a first world country, I've got a beautiful wife and great friends that "get me", which is pretty cool as I'm not really a people person.

Also, I get paid to make video games all day, for a company that's working on some really interesting and innovative products as opposed to "generic first person shooter 3". If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'd probably keep my job, as I find it genuinely interesting and fulfilling for reasons beyond the ability to make a living.

Science fiction answer, I reckon I'd be pretty happy to live forever just accruing knowledge, exploring space, having sex with robots, aliens and alien robots. All that jazz.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I'd like to own several segways, because ever since I tried one out I've come to the conclusion that they'd be awesome for racing with friends.

I've had a very hard time with math my whole life. It seems that I have to work 10 times harder than others before I "get" something. Funny that I have had so much success in what I do, software engineering, despite being born without that part of the brain. A lot of software engineering is non-scientific though, dealing with abstract concepts that cannot always be put into concrete terms or "proved" by any scientific means.

I'm kind of the same, I'm great at programming but math has always been a problem for me. Similarly, I was crap at maths in high school, but oddly enough, very good at physics.

I've found that I can pick up mathematical concepts if it's presented to me in the proper context. I found that a lot of the math I found impossible to learn in highschool was really easy to understand in the context of 3D games programming, maybe because I can visualise what's going on more easily.

I've only just seen this thread - what a great thing.

Me?

I'd grab my boots and walk the coastline of Britain - simple as that.

I spend a lot of time walking these days - it's good for health and equally good for my 'self'. Some days where I'm out for a walk I get the feeling I just want to carry on walking to see places and enjoy what's over the next hill or round the next corner. I can't think of anything better than staying in b&b's or wherever and just going out each day with nothing to worry about except the next few miles. Yeah, there would be some days where it was cold or rained but hey, that's life as much as anything else is. You'd just enjoy the next sunny day a little bit more. 2,400 miles? It just takes as long as I want it to.

If I won the lottery (which I don't play so go figure that one) I'd be in the hiking shop the next day and on the road the day after.

Hey! You from Newcastle? Im a boro lad myself!