Longer term plans?

Kyriakos

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... I have some, but it all depends on how long i will remain alive. Maybe another 30 or 40 years? (i am 37). Maybe a bit more or a bit less.
For example, a new book of mine will be out by next October, ie 2 years since the current one circulated. I probably will be emigrating to the UK and moving back and forth (Greece-UK) for the book or other deals.
I suppose i will stabilize in some relationship, although i doubt i will be married.
Literature-wise... there is some prospect of something of note. Depends on less elegant parameters, such as my finances and overall mood.

It still sort of sucks that there isn't enough time. But not so much due to the time being so little to do what i want to do - for i could have done far more things, particularly in writing, that i did by now - but so little time if one aspires to leave behind some work of relative importance. Surely there have been - and there are now as well - a number of very intelligent people. But it is not like they ultimately help much. Probably everyone has heard of Einstein, and virtually no one outside of set fields has read all of his work. Same goes with other notables.

I am disappointed by the crap of life, although those were - again - always there.
So much prospect of beauty. So little showing of it in the end.

-Ok, merry Christmas ( ;) ), and do you have any longer term plans, at all? ;) Or maybe you'd prefer taking the shortcut through the forest:

 
I'm picking up my gf at the airport on Tuesday. For me that is long term. My plans are usually measured in minutes.

THE WORKMAN
by LORD DUNSANY



I saw a workman fall with his scaffolding right from the summit of some vast hotel. And as he came down I saw him holding a knife and trying to cut his name on the scaffolding. He had time to try and do this for he must have had nearly three hundred feet to fall. And I could think of nothing but his folly in doing this futile thing, for not only would the man be unrecognizably dead in three seconds, but the very pole on which he tried to scratch whatever of his name he had time for was certain to be burnt in a few weeks for firewood.
Then I went home for I had work to do. And all that evening I thought of the man’s folly, till the thought hindered me from serious work.
And late that night while I was still at work, the ghost of the workman floated through my wall and stood before me laughing.
I heard no sound until after I spoke to it; but I could see the grey diaphanous form standing before me shuddering with laughter.
I spoke at last and asked what it was laughing at, and then the ghost spoke. It said: “I’m a laughin’ at you sittin’ and workin’ there.”
“And why,” I asked, “do you laugh at serious work?”
“Why, yer bloomin’ life ‘ull go by like a wind,” he said, “and yer ‘ole silly civilization ‘ull be tidied up in a few centuries.”
Then he fell to laughing again and this time audibly; and, laughing still, faded back through the wall again and into the eternity from which he had come.
 
Spring chicken. ;)

Long term plans... I don't make long term plans anymore except as a vague "maybe." For me a long term plan is planning an appointment in advance - maybe a month or so.

The longest plan I managed to carry out lately was NaNoWriMo. Back in March, when I was getting ready for the April event, I suddenly had an idea: this would be the year I'd at least try to do all three events. And when the April and July events went very well, the plan changed to "I'm not only gonna try, I'm gonna win!".

Well, it happened. And now another long-term plan has begun: To improve on this year (bigger goals for the Camp events and editing this stuff into shape for posting online - won't be here, though; I'd run up against CFC's "inappropriate language" rules).
 
I'd like at least another thousand years, please. I want to know how the Temporal Cold War turns out (Star Trek reference).
 
Just a few things off of my bucket list:

Parachute jump from a plane; Swim with sharks, cage-free of course; Publish a cookbook; Open up a restaurant; Publish a children's book; Build a house with a huge garden; Grow my own produce; Found (?) a NGO for biodiversity; Transform my garden into a sanctuary of rare flora & fauna; Get a beehive and make my own honey; Turn 100 and start playing World of Warcraft again.

Of course things will be added eventually, but for now I think I have enough plans :>
 
Short term plan: get a mortgage and build a house.
Long term plan: pay off the mortgage and plant a garden.
 
Short term plan - 32 inch waist and nice muscles, maybe a job as a dancer
Long term plan - to get married again or at least something of same meaning, like civil union of sort
 
How long is long?
I have plans for the next year, like 10-15 new years resolutions, but nothing longer.
Is also a bit hard to make any right now, don't even know in which country i'll be living next year at this time (continent i know though).
 
Short term plan: Not die.
Long term plan: Not die for a longer period of time.
 
Living to make myself comfortable and then play around till I die is not for me. Life is about the calling and the purpose, and that was never meant to be comfortable or easy. My long-term plans involve a hard life, and my great-grandchildren spawning a Great Person named tetley when they play Civ 37. If humanity is even around for that long.
 
Living to make myself comfortable and then play around till I die is not for me. Life is about the calling and the purpose, and that was never meant to be comfortable or easy. My long-term plans involve a hard life, and my great-grandchildren spawning a Great Person named tetley when they play Civ 37. If humanity is even around for that long.

In the year 2525?
 
I'm 58. I figure I might get one more slightly long term plan and then its dinner from the blender time while my nostrils hold booger races.
 
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