This is a spin off of a question I recently answered.
2007-10-05 06:28:23 · 13 answers · asked by Greywolf 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I paid the price on both sides to be stuck in the middle.
2007-10-05 06:55:24 · answer #1 · answered by luminous 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm 12 at the moment so I haven't achieved the life I want just yet, but I have sacrificed alot for my grades. It's not only time that I've used, it's the fact that every day of my life consists of study, study, and study. I don't ever stop to do something fun, apart from sports which swimming is of an interest to me. I guess I'm not what people call 'normal'. My brother spends lots of his time playing but I'm different. Though most of my life consists of 'study-labour' I have achieved a lot that shall help me to my greater goals when I am grown up. I often read history books which the people in my class call, "old-people's books". And I have no friends. (my own fault) I spend every second either reading or studying. Nobody'd like to waste their time with me. But I don' mind all this. As long as I grow up to bring glory and honour to my name I'm fine with it. That's what I care about. I can have friends when I retire or something. But you can see I've sacrificed quite a lot.
2007-10-05 14:01:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would first like to state that I have not "achieved" the life I want. Your life is not a single moment an appropriate aim for life is ongoing. However, I am already set on my chosen path, and I have made sacrifices for it.
I have sacrificed the respect of many, my popularity, much of my free time, many thinks which I would have liked to achieve if it was not for my aim (e.g. marriage and children), fulfiling/relieving my emotions and my day to day existance and way of life.
In short, I have sacrificed everything which I possibly could for the life I want - a harsh existance, yet the only way to achieve success.
2007-10-05 17:09:09 · answer #3 · answered by MoonWolf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The price I have paid (so far) for the life I wanted, has been every single day of my life. With the exeptions of my "give up tonight" endevours, nope! even then, I'm still workin on it.
2007-10-05 13:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in my 40's and still waiting for "the life I wanted." Meanwhile, I'm working and paying bills.
Come to think of it, my life has been made up of one "meanwhile" after another... some good "meanwhiles" and some tougher "meanwhiles". It's not the life I want, yet... it's the life I have.
I guess my dreams are the life I want. As soon as I can stop to breathe a little, I'll come up with a new strategy to get closer to the life I want.
Meanwhile... well, there's "meanwhile."
2007-10-05 13:47:14 · answer #5 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's true i love my life...
but this isn't exactly the life i set out to get...
it kept changing when i was 10,20,30,40...
there is limited time in a day so you can only pursue what is most important to you.
i gave up many things to get the life i wanted. i gave up more education to spend that time taking care of kids. i gave up visiting relatives to go to dance workshops. i gave up leisure to work and have the freedom that money gives me.
i gave up many things, always pursuing something i wanted more. sure.
2007-10-05 13:37:24 · answer #6 · answered by BonesofaTeacher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well right now, I'm working and going to school.
I hate my job, my coworkers are a bunch of tards. and some of my classes are filled with fresh out of high school children that don't appreciate education. my day is filled with annoyance but it will be worth it, when i get my degree.
2007-10-05 13:36:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sacrifice of my own desires for the sake of participation in the forms of goodness, truth and beauty.
2007-10-05 13:42:47 · answer #8 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Strictly speaking, no one gets a life that one wanted
2007-10-05 13:55:23 · answer #9 · answered by Dr. Girishkumar TS 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
None. When you make choices,there are consequences. I've made mine and took the consequences. That's it.
2007-10-05 13:53:35 · answer #10 · answered by margarida c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋