Goals for your 2014?

[RLP]

1. finish uni
2. get a good job
3. move out
4. make some new friends/find a new girlfriend
5. try dmt, speed and psilocybin
6. work out, improve my image.

Don't force it. If you get to the last week in December 2014 are you just gonna go for anyone? Relax buddy. If you hit 2, 3 and 6 you'll probably find the gash is queuing up anyway.

Be happy

Should be everyones NY resolution.

I need to get into work and preferably training this year. And it would be great to move house too.

I believe in you. You're a smart fella and have a heart of gold. Gopher it and you'll get it (and PM me if you need any help with cv's/applications/interviews etc).

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My resolutions:
1) Learn Spanish
2) Get better at guitar
3) Redo my kitchen and back garden.
4) Run a half marathon in under 1hr 30.
5) Be happy.

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

hell! I'll be 27 next year!

Er...and?

It would be nice to see a bit more altruism in this thread (help fuckers stop dying on Bluelight?) though I grant you the title does lead to self-thought.

I spent yesterday morning bringing back my niece from floods of tears. She's 21 this year and in her final year at Cambridge. This does not impress me. The peer pressure she faces from Lord and Lady Snooty, ie her fellow students, means she is practically having a nervous breakdown because she won't be earning £40000 by September like they will.

Now that's what I call first world problems.

There's a big world out there. With many fascinating cultures. I intend to get to see a bit more of it, once the wind stops blowing in the Philippines.

Imma also trying to bring Mailmonkey back to BL but I think I've failed miserably there.

5) Make the server less busy.

 

[swampdragon]

Nice to see a lot of positivity here.

(5)-Start sailing as I have access to a beautiful racing yacht think its a 31ft and I maybe go out once a year

Ooh, lovely! Yeah, that's definitely something to take advantage of.

It would be nice to see a bit more altruism in this thread (help fuckers stop dying on Bluelight?) though I grant you the title does lead to self-thought.

But that's a bit of a given, innit? Along with 'be happy' etc. Also I would think these things are more ongoing goals and not new ones for 2014..

 

[RLP]

Lord and Lady Snooty won't be earning £40k a year. Not themselves anyway. They might get cash off their parents but I can guarantee you that even the majority of Oxbridge graduates at the moment still enter the workplace earning £25k at best.

 

[swedger77]

Get a natural sleep pattern back - ie no etiz

Hugely reduce my recreational drug intake

Excel at my work.

World peace

 

[koneko]

Gosh, imagine valuing your self worth on how much you can / could earn 8( First world problem indeed...

Can only imagine against that scale what it must be like for the student loan wonga repayment, zero contract generation Self worth criteria indeed

Agree Ms Dragon it is nice to see so many positive posts and hops for the new year. Sailing you say - you must come to the west coast of Scotland to sail, it is spectacular!

I find happiness is one of those fleeting guaranteed at some point even if for a micro second in a day kinda mood things. It'll happen regardless of effort really its a human baseline mood thing. Maybe that's just me...

Having reared my kids who are now as old as most of you lot, I'm finding myself looking more towards what I can do to care for my community and others. I want to put a lot more effort into that and less into indulging my narcissism and selfishness.

Grow more veg / deal with our outdoor space better, we have a small wood sloping to a river in a bloody town centre kinda stuff aka pain in arse.

Be more frugal (already am - but more so!). I'm going hoard money.

^ Above is linked to saving to spend on travel, putting things into perspective by seeing other places, meeting other folks. Fuck the roof repairs :D

 

[mydrugbuddy]

1. quit bupe dependency
2. quit e-cigs
3. quit benzo depenedency
4. Get a job (any job)
5. Get a job I'll actually enjoy and find rewarding.
6. That's all.

Goal 2 is the easiest and will be attempted again tomorrow, all wicks and stuff will be destroyed before i go to sleep tonight. The shop will be closed on new years day so I'll have to go at least 1 day without and then it'll start getting easier and easier after day 1. it should help to achieve goal 1 and 3 because I'll be healthier and fitter and more resilient and more interested in food and eating properly and will be less stressed and find it easier to sleep.

 

[Marmalade]

speed sucks

I'll use the stock response to such a silly statement.

IF you're into stims at all, then the above is because you haven't had decent speed before.

IF you're not into stims then disregard the above.

just to survive will be enough

^^ This.

There's a teensy Brucie bonus of a little self-satisfaction from surviving despite certainly not being one of the fittest so there is. Hanging on desperately to those little strands of opportunity still counts as surviving.

Same applies to all my fave people facing various health shitstorms over the next year; you lot better survive too ... A year without having to mourn the loss of close friends and family would be awesome.

Good luck peeps

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Im afraid that just surviving isnt enough for me. Thats partially just down to fate/luck, allthough your own life choices and decisions obviously play a big part. Just surviving, with no quality of life, or nothing to enjoy, will not do, fortunately there are still things in life i enjoy, as im sure there are for you Foolsgold and Marmalade.

 

[Albion]

Have a better year than 2013.

Maybe take more drugs.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

lol, thats one option, one that would be excellent in the short term, but not so good if you're trying to look beyond living for today. Aargh its frustrating and annoying as there is a lot to be said for living for today and forgetting about tomorrow, but so far there has allways been a tomorrow, so i have to assume and plan on this continuing to be the case.

 

[Albion]

Is it not possible to live for today and tomorrow? Enjoy today's hedonistic pursuits while planning for the future and making good long-term choices.

If you are a bupe and benzo addict, and want to get off them both, then it doesn't seem particularly hedonistic to me to continue to take those drugs, as it is against your greater wish. There are other pleasures you can allow yourself though. Did you have any past hobbies that could be rekindled to fill the gap left by hard drugs? Any hard hobbies you could take up?

 

[mydrugbuddy]

It is possible, but difficult. I'd love to just take more and more bupe and etizolam, but i know that in my own longer term interests i have to get free from being dependent on these things.

 

[koneko]

...

Maybe take more drugs.

Why?

More fun, boredom, self medication, pain relief, therapy? Why just "take more"? I want to know your purpose and intent young man lol!!!

 

[Albion]

Because I enjoy it 8)

I've had a relatively sober 2013. I miss the rollercoaster lifestyle...

I would also like to get a girlfriend though...Which is nigh on impossible when I'm using drugs as it's such an unattractive trait. If I find a girl, I doubt I'll be using drugs much again.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

My greater greater wish is to be able to take these things recreationally in a non dependant way. I really dont like being a slave or victim to anything. I would like to have more control over my own life.

 

[Sammy G]

I've had a relatively sober 2013.

Same here. Most sober since, um... 2009?

I miss the rollercoaster lifestyle...

I don't! Well, maybe some bits of it. Sometimes.

I would also like to get a girlfriend though...

What are you? Queer or summat?

Which is nigh on impossible when I'm using drugs as it's such an unattractive trait.

Whaaaaaaaaaat? You're kidding, yeah?

If I find a girl, I doubt I'll be using drugs much again.

Ah, so you are kidding. Good one.

 

[Marmalade]

Im afraid that just surviving isnt enough for me. Thats partially just down to fate/luck, allthough your own life choices and decisions obviously play a big part. Just surviving, with no quality of life, or nothing to enjoy, will not do, fortunately there are still things in life i enjoy, as im sure there are for you Foolsgold and Marmalade.

hrmn.

 

[koneko]

I would also like to get a girlfriend though...Which is nigh on impossible when I'm using drugs as it's such an unattractive trait. If I find a girl, I doubt I'll be using drugs much again.

Unless the woman was also into drug use. Or do you find that an unattractive trait in a woman? Like you do in yourself...

I'm naturally taking less drugs. There's been 6 sessions in the last year, ok a few of them have gone on for a week or so. The recovery from those sesh's has been awful, taken a real toll on my health so I'm not so keen to re-do that so often in the future!

Alas I think the last of those have contributed towards making a 5 year managed condition unstable again recently....

 

[Albion]

It's just that from my own experience, girls have been put off by my drug use. I don't find drug use an unattractive trait, but others really do. Sure, a girl who is as avid a drug user as myself would not be phased, but they seem to be few and far between. I don't mix in particularly druggie circles...Or at least not anymore. Same circle, everybody just went clean.

Many lols at your post there, Sammy :D I suspect you're right to be cynical about the less-drugs-if-there's-a-girl prediction. I live in hope though.


Maybe in 2014 I will get drugs and get a girl. That would be nice.