| I don't work because I don't have to. I have trust fund that I couldn't extinguish with all of my best effort. It will similarly take care of my child and generations to come. I have a beautiful home that sits on exquisite grounds. I fill my time with working out, swimming, traveling and learning French. My child is happy and thriving in their chosen field. I have a partner who is deeply committed to me and our relationship. My friends are happy that an unknown person had paid off all of their student loan and credit card debts. My parents are happily retired, with all of their needs met. |
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I live mostly my same life but 1/2 the time I’m in Mallorca. Same husband but he has a Spanish accent LOL. And cherry on top: I’m the lead singer in a folk band 🧡
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In another fantasy, I am indigenous woman whose grandfather is teaching me ancient sacred customs and traditional hunting, gathering and cooking skills. My brother became a lawyer and sued a multinational pharmaceutical company for rights to medication with various life saving applications that was derived from our traditional forms of medicine. We used the money to build substance abuse and domestic violence prevention programs in our community. We started educating our community in health and nutrition and traditional forms of food production and family values through story telling, art, dance, preparing nutritious food our ancestors ate and eating together. We start summer camps to bring in children and teens from Mainstream America so that they can learn our traditional customs, story telling, religion, art, relationship to traditional land, and way of being in wholistic ways. Our community is being transformed and feels alive with hope for the future built in respect for the past. |
No, I think re-writing your past is too much. Present + future only. Coming up with a whole life story is different exercise. |
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In another fantasy, I grew up like a wild weed in a remote country area allowed to explore nature for most of the day. Formal
School was over and done with in a few hours each day. My real class room was the Great Outdoors: rivers, fields, rocky rolling hills: creeks, virgin wooded areas, farmlands and prairies. Necessity being the mother of invention, inspired me to find solutions to many practical problems. I went on to discover how to generate cheap affordable solar electricity and wind power systems that average people can afford. |
My fantasies often transcend time and place … it may be too much for your imagination but not for mine : 😀 |
Oh I like this! I have a pretty similar life to my current one except I live on Sado-ga-shima (visa magic has occurred) so we can afford to own our house and I get to practice my Japanese all the time and my kids are functionally bilingual. Oh and I have a trust fund or something so I can only work part time without worrying about my future career prospects and be fully integrated into Japanese mom culture. |
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I have a beautiful house on a private beach in SoCal.
It has spectacular views of the ocean’s waves & every night I fall asleep to the sound of them crashing against the rocks. My home has beautiful furnishings and everything matches perfectly. I have a daily maid who keeps it 1000% spotless. A cook who makes the best spaghetti 🍝 + oven-roasted pizza. I am a successful author who spends my days writing New York Times best selling novels. I love to sit on my upstairs terrace and write. I take vacations often, flying by private jet of course. I am in excellent health and have access to the best M.D.s in the country. I have a huge retirement fund and my adult kids all have personal trust funds. I have bought each kid their own house and they all have enviable careers. |
| Money does buy happiness. Doesn’t it? These all have one theme in common. Money. |
Only as a means to different ends not as an end in itself )for the most part). |
It is the different ends that are interesting not the means … |
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yeah I just want to be one of these DCUM SAHM's with rich husbands who don't work long hours and still help with the kids and enjoy their wives. The moms also have cleaners and an unlimited budget and no pressure to ever return to work, even once the kids are gone.
thats my dream. |
It will buy their fantasy. It will not buy them happiness. |
| Last time the jackpot for the lottery hit a billion and my husband got us some tickets he asked me what I would do. I said I wanted a house on my own private island and he got on Zillow or someplace and we spent hours just looking and picking out our favorites. I don’t know if having that house would actually make me happy and my husband was still so practical saying things like “I bet that one would take a lot of maintenance “ etc. |
I even take the one that work the long hours, as long as I can spend more time with my kids. |