Paul_J
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I was thinking about this the other day. How do you feel you live your life?
I know people who live their life solely at the present! Living their life to the full now. They do everything they want to do, buy everything they want, go travelling spending shit loads and don't really care to much about what happens in the future, they just want to enjoy life right now!
I personally am currently living for the future, I've dulled down my life now, to try to save money, I'm working seriously hard on my uni work and hoping to get a good grade. As a result though, I feel that my life is slipping through my fingers and I've not really been making the most of it, especially while I'm young. I still go out and have a good laugh, but I don't do everything I want to do right now. For example, I haven't just spunked all my money on a brand new car, or just gone for 365 days a year piss up etc  Problem is I've been looking to the future for so long now, I've barely lived for the present! and I can't see it getting any better when I finish uni and get a job / mortgage etc (big regrets!).
Finally, are you the sort of person who's had the good laugh, pissed about, had fantastic times but now see the rest of your life will most likely be a bit of a drag. I've had mates who've had the best time of the their lives the last 4 years or so, i.e. pissing it up at uni on a doss course. But now it's all over, they're stuck in some boring dead end office job, no spare cash, no house, lost most of their social base and only look back on the good times they had, not really living now, or planning for the future.
Anyone else feel they're in one of those 3 categories? I wish I was 'living for now' - as you could die tommorrow and you're only young once! but I do feel I need to build up some financial worth, before I can start enjoying life to the full.
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danielleG
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Registered: 25th Jun 07
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I live for today, been shit over too many times in the past making plans for the future so i don't bother now.
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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if i died tomorrow, i'd say i had fun, i have the social life i want, but i still think about the future, i day dream so much its untrue.
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
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ive had a fucking great few years partying since i left school, none of my mates have bothered to settle down either. ive really tried to tone my life down and stop goin out but im just incpapable, im just not wired to be boring and sit at home when somethins goin on im down to just goin out thursday nights and saturdays now
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Russ
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do you have much money saved up lee? or your own home?
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
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nope! but im only 21 and have no debt which is the way i like to look at it 
i wouldnt want my own home, sort of limits your life options!
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waters
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Registered: 28th Jan 08
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I haven't voted as I think I live for today but the wife says I'm stuck in the eighty's......she keeps calling me gene hunt
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by lee_wee
nope! but im only 21 and have no debt which is the way i like to look at it
i wouldnt want my own home, sort of limits your life options!
i see what you mean, but it opens up other options
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LeeM
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Registered: 26th Sep 05
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fuck it, my family own property and im the only child on the rich side will all be mine one day!
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dannymccann
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I think its based on yor own circumstances. If I wasnt with my girlfriend who Ive been with for 3 1/2 years I would be living more for the present, as it is, we are both saving for our own house which we see as the most fulfulling way to show success in life. Atm we dont go out at all, never really seen the allure of going out and getting pissed, even though Im at uni, and much prefer to sit in at home and do something
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
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I live for the future, i save money when i can  Will put it all to good use someday.
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Ian W
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I'm stuck between living for the present and planning for the future...
I've got plans in place for my own place after summer and my career is on the right path etc, currently paying off outstanding debts (end of the month I will have just the 1 loan and no credit card debt etc )
I do have a tendency to live for the present though, buy what I want and what not, sometimes sit back and turn down nights out and that though to save money (but mainly cos I want to buy something else with the cash )
[Edited on 19-03-2008 by Ian W]
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Cosmo
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I live for the day I open up a thread with a post from Paul_J in and Im not confronted by an essay.
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andy1868
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
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cosmo, you can dream all you want. but that is never, ever going to happen
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
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Im a future person, however recently I have had more of an attitude to having fun at the moment as I felt the same as you that I was missing out whilst still young etc
Drives supercharged Tec with torque  
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corsa - gus
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i live for now, or i have done for the last four years. i was only 16 when i first went to uni and im 20 now and have a well paid job with alot of responsibilities. i spend my money on what i want when i want.
i do always have great visions of saving the pennies for a rainy day but im still young and as much as i would like to do that i would rather be getting fooked up at weekends and having a good time.
i can see me settling down in a couple of years and getting my own place but when i do that i believe i will still be living for the present as that will be what i want to do when i get to 22/23.
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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I'm living for the future - and I continuously think "what if?"!
I'm at Uni like a lot of us, and I made the conscious decision to live at home whilst I'm doing it. Yes, I regret not living away after seeing pictures of my mates at Uni and hearing stories. But then I think. I've got into Corsasport etc which is awesome, still go biking which is great and have a loving girlfriend that I like spending time with.
If I was living away i.e. living for the present I'd merely be pissing all my money down the drain, feeling shit because I'm not biking and eating shit food. The list goes on.
I'm actually happy living for the future. I'm happy not going out, getting pissed every week. I am happy with the life I'm living.
And I'm trying to save for the future. Got 2 jobs (one is my bread and butter, the other work experience but paid) and saving as much as I can without going without for a month.
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Dean_W
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No point living in the past, thats done and gone. I did have an awesome time though.
Also no point in living for the future, could die tomorrow.
Living for now
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Jill
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No point living in the past, that's been done and dusted. I tend to live for the day and present, with a little bit of planning for the future- obviously with my mortgage and job/work stuff etc I can't be too lackadaisical regarding not planning for the future. However, no point imo planning for the future too much as things often change so quickly
JILL 
[Edited on 19-03-2008 by Jill]
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
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Living just after the present. Buy pretty much whatever I want, do what I want, but keep things in mind that I will want.
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mattk
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I always have it in the back of mind I could be dead tomorrow
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Nismo
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Live for the present, you never know what could happen.
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Colin
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Each day as it comes tbh. Though id like to think I do things in a way as to make the future better. Theres deffo no point dwelling on the past!!
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Joe
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Registered: 20th Jun 04
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quote:
Originally posted by CorsAsh
Living just after the present. Buy pretty much whatever I want, do what I want, but keep things in mind that I will want.
That sums me up aswell. I pretty much do what I want, but keep an eye on things coming up that I may need to save for etc.
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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definatly for the present. spent many hard years at college and worked my socks off to be in the position im in now.
On a good wage, doing a 9-5 job I enjoy, have my own house etc.
[Edited on 19-03-2008 by Bart]
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