In life, what path will you take?

[violinxmurderer]

Will you take the path traveled by many or the path that is traveled by only a few?



(((This one will allow you to interpret the question in your own way. We had a really intelligent conversation in English about this)))

[Rider]

[glow=red,2,300]Hmm... I don't plan on getting married. Society seems to think that a person can't breathe or walk without a dang spouse. My favorite quote is, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." And I can't remeber who said that.

I'll definitely go to college, though I still don't have an inkling as to which one.

Beyond that, i'm sort of hazy. I mean, I guess I'll take whatever comes my way. Ride the waves out. I'm gonna try to get a career as a writer. Maybe get a novel out.

Bit funny. I've always been terrified of being just another face in the crowd. Don't wanna be just another blue-collared nobody in a cubicle typing figures into a computer. Worldwide fame would be nice, but I'd be more than content with being well-known in the Boston area, even. For doing something good. Don't know what that is yet. I'll work on it as I go along.

Wow, I rambled longer than I thought I would...[/glow]

[Deleted]

Mmm, that is a neat question. Kudos to your Language Arts teacher for bringing up such a terrific topic.

I plan to travel down whatever road I see myself drawn to. If I need to walk alone, I will. It is always better to walk alone and have self respect than to walk with a crowd and be another one of those nobodies who everyone cares about. The road walked alone is one that is usually dotted with boluders and mountains, but I am prepared to climb those mountains and roll the boulders away when the time comes.

I plan to fly. Fly freely and truely and never give a care to what anyone else thinks. Society today seems to only dwell on what others thing about them, and I never want to be concered with peer acceptance. I would rather someone know me as a person than some store mannequin.

Is this all a dream? Perhaps. Perhaps I will just end up as everyone else, doing what everyone else does in that uniform way we all have a way of portraying. Perhaps nothing I dream of I will achieve.

But I dream. And that is a step further than what many do.

I have a dream.

[Orginalcliche]

I will take the path of expressing myself somehow as a career. I know it may sound idealistic but I've always wanted to be an actress, though I wouldn't mind being a writer either, even a singer would be great. I want to give myself fully for something/someone and receive that in return. If that means dieing, or living or what not I'll do it. I feel I have a purpose, I just have to work for it. Being famous would be nice, really nice, and I have to say it's on my top twenty, I want to be known, I want to make an impact on history, even though there are very few that ever do. I want to do something great, be it for myself, others, or the world, but the time is now to do it!

[violinxmurderer]

I will take neither path. If you think about it, people like Martin Luther King JR (his work with the Civil Rights) and JRR Tolkien(he created a timeless book that was from his own ideas) took the path that was traveled by few. Nowadays, people are taken that path but in thier own way. So wouldn't it mean that the path taken by many is the path taken by few? Wouldn't that mean there is no path in life?

I, like many others, want to have a successful life and have live life to the fullest. Never regreting things we did and just do it! Even though I march to the beat of my own drum, I still want to marry, have children, and live a happy life. But there's a side of me who wants to do so much more.

I have a list of about fifty things I want to do before I die. Obviously I'm not going to be able to complete the list, but what I do complete, I won't regret it. I'll still keep my values(remaining a virgin until marriage, staying sober and not to smoke, put neither myself nor my friends or family first in my choices...) but still live my life as much as I can.

[Jessica Coconut]

Neither path. I believe that life is a long, winding road, that splits once, twice, a bazillion, an infinite amount of times, and crosses an infinate amount of times. Each split is a decision. I will probably make a few decisions that are quite similar to many - going to university, getting married (undecided), being a pacifist - but I am also likely to make a lot that will take me off to a secret location known by few.

Working to help individuals, possibly as a leader of some kind (interpret this how you please), might go a route similar to everyone's favourite chimp researcher Jane Goodall (oh man, my parents will go nuts), might decide to travel the world, might aim for fame or fortune, will likely aim for IB in my senior years of high school, will probably continue complaining about the government and The System, will probably attempt to gain high school credits in the most strange ways allowable, will probably take up one of the less popular sports, like archery, or not at all.

I also believe that my path will probably be walked along with companions once in a while, and that everyone's paths has bumps, and for a while, will probably end up in the complete wilderness, far away from civilization.

[Linnen Malfoy]

I think it's impossible to choose which 'path' you go on. There are so many paths in a life that saying you'll take the one always travled or the one less travled is impossible. Life deals so many curves that you can change in an instant.
Moreso, everyone enjoys the idea of being individual, so, typicaly, you're going to have everyone saying they'll take the road less travled. After all, what would someone say? "Yes, I'm going to be a sheep and take the road everyone takes!"

Must say, it's a lot easier said than done. ^_~

The best path is whatever makes you happy. Some take the path travled by many and are happy, but does that make them wrong? Other try and take the path travled by a few and are miserable, but, in the end, it's too impossible to say which path to take.

However, intresting question, is the path taken by a few really the path that IS taken by a few? Many would suspect the 'few' path to be writers, musicans, artists, actors, but are they not a very big majority of the populace? If that is indeed the case, then how can those road be 'the few'?

[mushroom]

Who knows? *shrugs* Some of my dreams are unusual--I don't know a whole lot of people who want to be a doctor in a third-world country, but that's my Big Eventual Goal if I do end up a doctor. (Maybe I'll be a physicist or politician instead--who knows?) Some of my dreams are pretty common--I want to have a family. I think I'd like to adopt children, whether or not I ever marry. (This has the particular bonus of not necessarily requiring leaving my work.) So...I guess I'll take the path that is traveled by few in my specific choices (like all people do), but I'll take the path that is traveled by many in taking whatever path makes me happy.

[Deleted]

The early years (18-21) I'll be going to either SU or NYU. I got the grades and I have my heart set on a school in New York, so I BETTER go one of the two. *Pokes the dean for NYU.*

Early adulthood (21-30)- I'll move to New York City and get a job somewhere cooking or flipping burgers, OR I'll work as a journalist for a newspaper. Really, i don't want to be a journalist, I want to be a writer of some sort, write books, you know? So I'll probably get a job at a restaraunt and until I get stuff off the ground, I'll be a starving artist.

Mid-life (30-40)- From here, I'll be at a crossroads. It's either move somewhere to Canada for awhile, travel around the US, or get married. It's all going to depend on my attitude then. And if I don't die on July 7, 2032 at the age of 38, I shall hold a big party.

And...well....the next few years I really haven't thought about.

....

Or maybe I could be a traveling gypsy. XD

[Crystal]

Am I the only person here who doesn't want to make a name for themselves? I will be content with a normal salary, just another computer programmer sitting around writing programs all day. The only other job I've ever seriously considered holding is to be an artist for Neopets, but God knows I'm not good enough. I want a normal life, such as 'normal' is. I want a husband, two or three children (adopted or not, probably the former), a steady job I like, an average income.

I'll go to college at the end of next year, take my A-levels, depending on the course I'll take, go for a twinning program that will allow me to go overseas. Right now I plan to return home, but possibly, if for some unforseen reason, I might stay there. Doubt it though. I love my country and my lifestyle now. I want a boyfriend, later a husband, a guy I can love without worrying over my own heart. I'll get a job and go on with life and look after my parents.

What path I'll take? I don't know. I think I'll just take my own.

[Oily]

Whichever path I take, I'm taking it at a run ^^

I want to pass all my ten GCSEs with A*, which I'm well on the way to doing. I want to pass four A Levels, with grade A. I want to do some good volunteer work in the sixth form, and gain a qualification within it.

Then, I want to go to Oxford or Cambridge, possibly Harvard, and study English. I want to go into a huge company and work my way quickly up the ranks, and make a massive salary. I'd love to be in a leadership type role, but with a team, somewhere very high up.

I want to get married, and have children, possibly adopted ones too, though adoption is a really ardous process.

I want to write novels and have them praised. I love writing, and want to make a good job of it on the side too.

I'd also like to make things more efficient (like our school system), and help pass beneficial laws, but those are more hazy goals.

In life, I'm really aiming for the top. I want to be rich enough to indulge myself and my family, and also to help others. I'd love to set up my own charity - efficient, neat, uncorrupt - to channel funds into the poorest areas so that they can sustain themselves. I want to help people here in the UK too, with safe houses and so on. I want to have, more materially, big houses, and lots of clothes and neat stuff I want to treat friends and family lavishly, but without waste. I'd love to get involved in politics a bit too.

Basically, I want to fly extremely high. I want to have money and power and happiness. I think I'm well set up to do it as well - I have the brains, the ways of thinking, the leadership skills, the personality to cope, the internal happy mindset. I'm aiming high, but I know I can do it.

I can't wait for the rest of my life ^^

[Shadyy]

I'm not the person to just follow because others d it too (well, not usually, it can happen one odd single time, I guess.)
Just going to try and take a path that fits. Don't know what's going to happen in the future, bit hard to tell, isn't it?

But...I would want to graduate from college (pleasepleaseplease), write books/novels/however you want to call those; it doesn't have to be m main job, that's higly irrealistic, I'd want to work for a newspaper or some news magazine, or litterary magazine. Or advertising, that would be good too. I want to act too, not in big movies, I mean theatre in my city, as a hobby.

Don't know if I want to get married, but find someone to live with and have children atleats two, being an only child I've always felt lonely, i need people around me...

Phah, that's as far as I'm willing to go, but there's more

[cannonsmbt]

I always wanted to make cartoons and cartoon movies! it's been my dream since i was 3

[scarletrhapsody]

violinxmurderer said:

Will you take the path traveled by many or the path that is traveled by only a few?

This reminds me of the poem by Robert Frost (the one I like a lot).

Anyway, I hope no one gets offended or anything, but I'm pretty religious when it comes to this. I believe God already has a path in his plan for me, so I just put my trust in him to lead me. I try my hardest not to use my human logic to reason where I want to go, because I believe He can see the future which I can't.
So, yeah.

But if I really had a choice, I'll take the path less travelled..."and that made all the difference", as Mr Frost said.

[Orginalcliche]

Scarlet...grumpy said:

This reminds me of the poem by Robert Frost (the one I like a lot).

Anyway, I hope no one gets offended or anything, but I'm pretty religious when it comes to this. I believe God already has a path in his plan for me, so I just put my trust in him to lead me. I try my hardest not to use my human logic to reason where I want to go, because I believe He can see the future which I can't.
So, yeah.

But if I really had a choice, I'll take the path less travelled..."and that made all the difference", as Mr Frost said.

Trust me that if I got offended by reilgon I would be offended by almost everything.