If I knew I’d be ok, I would…………..

[kgfreo]

Take myself off to a cottage in the country for a couple of months and finally write that novel that’s rumbling around in my head.

I would love to do this too! I did it for 3 years in my 20s alone and it was probably some of the happiest times of my life.

Why can't you ?

Wing walking

Actually, I’d eat all the gluten (coeliac). I was diagnosed at 40 and one of my regrets in life is not eating enough pastries and McDonalds while I was in ignorant bliss of my condition.

Then I would try drugs. Always been too scared of what would happen.

Then I would tell a LOT of people to fuck off.

Assassinate Putin

Book a few days away to go and see my son

Go out on my own as a contractor/consultant. I'd be doing the same job but for the most incredible day rates, so could (in this hypothetical perfect world) work fewer months of the year and be around for school holidays or important family events.

One of these might do the trick in the meantime...

www.moniackmhor.org.uk/

www.arvon.org/

Get a job where I would feel included despite my disabilities.

Eat the rich and steal the wealth. Give my only child a sibling. Do what tf I wanted.

Spend that year in Cambodia/Vietnam/Laos or… Iran/Azerbaijan/Armenia/Georgia.

Try that new toad poison drug.

Ride a motorbike.

Have you checked what your pension would be worth if you transferred it at 55, invested it and got a monthly income from it?

I retired 2 years ago at 53 and am currently transferring mine to a fund that will give me more than enough to live off each month.

Go to Japan and travel the countryside and write that novel that's been bashing around my brain for a good decade.

Travel across the US in a greyhound bus and have adventures like Jack Reacher.

Travel on the Trans Siberian express with leisurely stop-offs staying in the best hotels and swilling vodka in local hostelries.

Tell my family I’m being selfish for a year. Dh will have to take on the thinking, if the kids wants something they have to plan then ask Dh, wider family can just piss off. I’d still work but do everything I did when I was single (which was run businesses and take classes).

Great thread @kgfreo Your goal does not sound that insurmountable. Those two websites above look great.
Go for it!

🤣🤣🤣I’d do more than tweak his nose!

I would:
Go on a long holiday on my own to America, Japan and India exploring all the places I’m interested in (I’m scared il be lonely or get murdered)
Do a skydive (scared my parachute won’t open)
Sleep with Jason mamoa, Michael fassbender and the attractive man who lives around the corner (scared my dh will find out) 😂

Why can’t you? ☹️

Travel Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, Korea, maybe Taiwan, on my own, for a year or two.

Make ALL the investments and massively increase the size of the investment business I work for. Not lie awake worrying that they will go badly wrong!

And try some drugs.

Try and talk to DS about his depression.

Go back to training for the career I intended on doing.

Travel the length of the Congo river.

Sadly too dangerous ever to do, even if I won the lottery - especially if I won the lottery.