To ask your BIGGEST dream in life?

[PaddleBoardingMomma]

One day, a few years from now, I want to be making a living fully independently and self sufficiently. Spending my days on the beach, on the water, my evenings making jewellery to sell. A quiet simple life! I don't have dreams of mega bucks or a lavish lifestyle, just enough to get by and be happy.

What's your biggest dream? Is it within reach? A pipe dream? Are you already living your dream?

My hope for this thread is to encourage people to go for what will make them happy, and offer advice on how to reach their goals if you can!

❤️

To write a book that sells semi successfully.

Also I dream that my eldest child will grow out of her food allergies. There is still time - but it would make such a difference to my life and hers

The biggest dream is to go to University and get a degree however I am nearly 70 so its pretty unlikely.

Definitely do it! Studying for pleasure is something I'm looking forward to when I retire.

Juggling study & working 12hr shifts has been soul destroying for me over the last few years.

I dream of being debt free, walking along a white sandy beach, feeling the sun on my skin every day.

I’ve got pretty much all I ever wanted, personally and professionally. I am writing a book and it would be great to see it published but that really is dreaming.

• for my dad to not be terminally ill
• my children to grow up happy and healthy
• be debt free
• upgrade the car
• move into a technical role in my career (I’m teetering on the edge of this, but not quite there yet)
• be in a position to buy the house we are renting (been here 10 years), and to do the improvements we always discuss and dream of being able to do.

I'm grateful and content with what I've got but I would say winning the lottery would be my biggest dream

I always wanted to live somewhere hot and sunny, near the beach and to have a pool. It took me a while but I got there in the end. Now I'd like to win the lotto please so I can spend the Aussie winter's in Italy, and travel lots. But I consider myself very lucky with what I've got really.

For my son with Asperger and Ehlers Danlos syndrome to feel happy and accepted.

And to have a mother or mother figure who loves me. That won’t happen now, I don’t think. I’m too old and now play that part a bit for other people, which helps. But a longing for it aches every day.

To live in a country house overlooking the sea!

Also I work in a uni and have seen people graduate at the age of 88. It’s so wonderful and special. Please do it if you’d like to!

@IDontDrinkTea same as you

To have a house with lots of space inside and out. To replace my upright piano with a beautiful grand, and live the simple life.

I would really like to live in a canal boat, a nice one, and to travel wherever I fancied. But with two cats a dog and a baby it doesn't seem likely.

Retirement. Everything in my life is perfect, apart from the sordid necessity of work.

To be happy with DH, to have my parents alive next to me for a long time, to have a child and live healthily in a beautiful house and to travel the world as much as possible. ❤️

To go back to uni and do the degree I should’ve done the first time round. To climb a couple of rings on the career ladder. To make a few new close friends.

@HazelBite my husband’s grandad did a degree after he retired with the OU - it was a great experience for him and he made lots of new friends. Don’t be put off by age!

For my trans child to feel accepted and safe.

I just want to be happy.

I'd love to win loads of money. Like fuck does money not buy happinesss. Sure, I'd still be depressed. But it must be so much easier being depressed when you don't have to worry about every last penny.

To have children

I have lots of little dreams.

Learn to drive. I don't need a vehicle now but I will in the future to fulfill my dreams.
Get a degree, like other people have said.
Go and explore the British Isles because tbh, I haven't seen much of it. That's when I'll need a driving licence.
Explore Europe by train and boat.
Have my own garden and front door. I live in a flat which has been depressing over the past year and a bit. A small house or bungalow would be nice.

I want DH back. But given the laws of time and space and mortality, that's not going to happen.

So the next best thing is a cottage by the sea near to where I scattered his ashes, with a dog, a whole room dedicated to books and crafts, and enough money to not have to work again and go travelling whenever I wish.

Travel.. and an EU passport.. I have already retired early, and finally bought the dream campervan id saved so many years for 2 weeks before the first covid lockdown.. (duh)

But I am lucky, we have enough to live on, house and big garden in a nice place and no one caught covid in our family..

EU passport sadly Im not eligible for .. ..

I want to earn £30,000 per month.

That’s enough to take care of my family, to employ people, to pay for office space and to invest in the future.

I spent my childhood, watching many different animal documentaries, running around the outside trying to find wildlife! My dream growing up was to go to Botswana on safari, me and my ex was saving for a house, we split up and I left the relationship with £17000, I blew £15000 on a 2 week safari, was worth every penny!

My dream now is to win the lottery, and I would buy my own private reserve in Botswana, and would spend the winter months there, would be far to hot in the summer for my liking