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Music:
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, REM, Crowded House, KT Tunstall, Beethoven, Holst, Stevie Wonder
Elbow, Kaiser Chiefs, Queen, Franz Ferdinand, The Beatles, New Order, Thin Lizzy, Fratellis, Neil Young, Cream, Jethro Tull, Green Day, Joan Armatrading, Rachel Unthank, Led Zeppelin, Richard Thompson, Seth Lakeman, Elvis Costello, Belinda O'Hooley.
Books:
Macbeth, A Tale of Two cities, 2001 A space odyssey, The Kiln, The Dice Man, Of Mice and Men, Diaries of Adrian Mole, most Charles Dickens, most Skakespeare, self improvement.
Favorite Places:
Glasgow, London, Oporto, Portugal, Brazil, Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, Arran, Ireland, Scotland, Skye
I Want To See:
New York, San Francisco, dolphins in the wild, the great barrier reef, Celtic win the Champions League
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TV:
News and current affairs, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Question Time (discussion show on current issues), Lost, Shameless, Firefly
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martind43's Life List:
| Learn to play guitar, started to learn 3 years ago bit stopped, Restarting lessons April 22nd. |
| Redesign my life, the way I want it to be. |
| Write a Novel followed by many published works |
| To speak Portuguese fluently |
| To live my life conciously every day |
| Use "Do it now" principle to get things accomplished. |
| Now I'm learning guitar, put some music to the many songs (or were they poems) written down the years. |
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I've experienced that as well.
Whenever I reach that stage I look at the small things and really see how miraculous they are ( I think that's what Da Vinci did as I recall) and that helps me to appreciate the bigger things.
What I deliberately did during my holiday was not to email, listen to music/radio, read newspapers/books nor watch television. Instead of living/thinking in the future, by not doing those activities I felt completely in the moment, ingesting all that surrounded me - the people, the landscape, the fresh air etc.
It was blissful (and didn't cost a cent). I felt I completely existed.
Comparisons don't work
What I've learned is that I tend to think the things my friends have done are amazing, and I don't think of my own accomplishments as "accomplishments" per se, because they don't seem that big a deal to me. In talking to my friends, I've been surprised to learn that the things about them that I think are incredible accomplishments, they don't see the same way. On the other hand, they're amazed by the things I've done. I think we often take our own accomplishments for granted, maybe that's part of being human, or just means we're not arrogant. Anyway, if you asked your friends what they admire most about you or think are your greatest accomplishments, you might be surprised by the answer.