Dreams vs. Reality
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Konstantin Vasserman wrote: How many of you have had dreams about what you are going to be doing when you'll grow up? Me, but Bill Gates has got my job :-( Konstantin Vasserman wrote: I have suddenly realized all of this today and it makes me very sad. Thats happened to me as well. Konstantin Vasserman wrote: I am not saying that I consider myself the greatest programmer alive. I I heard you were :-) Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Is there anybody who can relate? Yes, I can. Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Am I taking my childhood dreams too far? Dreams seldom eventuate. Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Am I a nut case? Quite likly but at least you have a kewl Rusky name. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. -- Doctor Who :jig: :jig: :jig:
:jig: :jig: :jig:Colin Davies wrote: I heard you were Damn. Now my secret is out... :) Colin Davies wrote: Dreams seldom eventuate. I wanted to say that I will work to prove you wrong, but even if my dreams come true it will not changes the statistics... :( Colin Davies wrote: Quite likly but at least you have a kewl Rusky name. It was a rhetorical question because I know that I am a nut case. :) My name is actually Greek in its origin, but it is widely used in Russia.
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Konstantin Vasserman wrote: How many of you have had dreams about what you are going to be doing when you'll grow up? I am grown up already, but I still do dream... Dreams must go on, else life will lose its purpose and I will lose direction. Nish
My miniputt high is now 29 I do not think I can improve on that My temperament won't hold www.busterboy.org
I was very close to give up on my dreams today, but I figured that I shouldn't - my dreams is all I have. So what if I fail - at least I would have tried.
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Indeed. I've always wanted to be a Zamboni* driver, but that dream has yet to materialize. :P *For those who live in warm climates, Zamboni is the brand name of a machine that smooths the ice in ice rinks. Winning isn't everything, but then, losing is nothing.
Navin wrote: Zamboni is the brand name of a machine that smooths the ice in ice rinks. At least now we know that some dreams are very cold... :)
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Konstantin Vasserman wrote: How many of you have had dreams about what you are going to be doing when you'll grow up? I did, and I must me lucky as I am beginning to realise them now. Well all apart from the one about marrying a goat and having hundreds and hundreds of kids, but my psychiatrist told me that was to be expected. ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
David Wulff wrote: Well all apart from the one about marrying a goat and having hundreds and hundreds of kids I guess, it leaves you some dream realizations for the future... :)
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It kinda worked out the very differently for me ... I left high school in the UK with barely enough qualifications to land an electrical apprenticeship and eventually qualfied in the trade that I imagined I'd be in for the rest of my life. Many years later I lost my job in a bit of a recession and my marriage started to fail. Reluctantly, and at the insistance (and financing) of my then father-in-law who saw better prospects for his gransdsons outside of England I went to South Africa for a "short" trip to see if I could get a job in the coal mines or gold mines there. His idea was that if I landed a job I'd return and we'd emmigrate as a family. Well I got a great job as an electrical foreman in the construction industry with Siemens the day after I arrived in South Africa and decided to stay... never went back .. and decided I was at a safe enough distance from my intimidating father-in-law to anounce I wanted to divorce his daughter. Two years later I left the travelling life of construction to settle down and remarry - this time to a wonderful Afrikaans school-teacher. My new job was overseeing the electrical maintenance on a group of chicken farms in the western cape - not a thrilling job but once I'd knocked all the chicken houses' climate control systems into some sort of shape so they didn't self-destruct every other month I had plenty of spare time to play with my new toy - a 64kb Spectravideo computer with "awesome" ;) graphics capabilities. I became so enthusiastic about it my new wife suggested I study "computers" with UNISA--South Africa's premiere distance-learning Uni.--to get a degree. I enrolled got a diploma after three years as a stepping stone on the way to a BSc which was enough back then to get me my first "computer" job as an analyst programmer on an open-cast coal mine developing and maintaining sophisticated geological modeling sytems. A great job but the area stank (literally - dozens of spontaneously combusting slag-heaps from the coal mines and steelworks spewed out foul gases making the area the most polluted in South Africa so I applied for a position in a more pictureque part of the country - on the Indian Ocean coast. There, for the next seven years I honed my skills on military simulations, eventually developing some pretty cool virtual reality based training sytems for tanks, armoured cars, bridge laying vehicles and tactical and strategic battle training simulators. To be able to accurately model this sophisticated equipment we had to go "play" with it to get a feel for how i
This is quite a success story you've got there. Well, good luck with your future endeavors (including becoming a great artist). :)
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How many of you have had dreams about what you are going to be doing when you'll grow up? I've dreamed of working with AI and Expert systems and writing cool games and doing all kind of interesting things like that. That was over 15 years ago. Then I've spent next 15+ years of my life doing everything but what I wanted to do. I don't know why. I guess I've made some wrong choices. Maybe life threw a few things here and there to make it go the other way. But the result is still the same - I am pretty far from where I wanted to be a long time ago. I have suddenly realized all of this today and it makes me very sad. Don't get me wrong: I have a very good job, I am working with very good people, I am being recognized and appreciated for the most part. I am doing very well on the big scale of things. But I have this feeling throughout my life that I am capable of much more than what I do now. I am not saying that I consider myself the greatest programmer alive. I am just saying that I think that I am pretty good and that I have the potential to come up with some idea or be involved in something awesome, something that will make it all worthwhile. Am I making any sense here? Now I'm being torn between the thought that I am just imagining that I am something that I am not and the thought that I am pissing my life away doing a bunch of meaningless stuff... Is there anybody who can relate? Am I taking my childhood dreams too far? Am I a nut case?
I am at the verge of my adult life so this is where I finally get a chance to fulfill my dreams. Right now I'm getting all the experience/diplomas I need to start out. Hopefully I'll get a big project in a couple of weeks (pays great too) and in 6 months I'm hoping to move south and FINALLY go to Uni. My whole life is going through a change now, getting ready to leave home, my friends and family. A fresh start in a new place all by myself. Scary and exciting at the same time. Ask me in 15 years and I'll answer your question. I can hardly wait. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704
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I am at the verge of my adult life so this is where I finally get a chance to fulfill my dreams. Right now I'm getting all the experience/diplomas I need to start out. Hopefully I'll get a big project in a couple of weeks (pays great too) and in 6 months I'm hoping to move south and FINALLY go to Uni. My whole life is going through a change now, getting ready to leave home, my friends and family. A fresh start in a new place all by myself. Scary and exciting at the same time. Ask me in 15 years and I'll answer your question. I can hardly wait. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704
Well the chances are I will not be around to ask you any questions in 15 years. But I will offer you a word of caution if I may: don't let your dreams out of your sight. It is very easy to get caught up in a bunch of little and not so little things in life. Then you wake up one morning 15 years later and realize that you were taking all the wrong turns along the way because you forgot where you were going. Don't give up your dreams. The best of luck to you.
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I heard another interesting fact similar to this, that even a dream that chronologically might have had a duration of 10-20 minutes, the actual real time we spend on the dream is a mere fraction of a second. Thus if we dream a dream where are swimming in an indoor pool with a beautiful chick and there is a super cool laptop on the pool chair that's also connected to a 35 Mbps line, we might think it took us 10 mins to dream that, thoiugh it actually only took ,005 seconds. Can someone verify this though? Nish
My miniputt high is now 29 I do not think I can improve on that My temperament won't hold www.busterboy.org
Checking now... Yes, I've got the line... but I can't find the beautiful chick anywhere:confused: Oops, wrong pool - gene pool, that is. But you're right about the time-compression thing. Dreams occur during REM periods, which last only minutes, yet the perceived duration can be hours or even days. Maya, I guess. Is the distortion necessarily present only when we dream? Or could the waking perception be just as inaccurate as that in the dream? And how would we know? How do philosophers ever get any sleep?
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Indeed. I've always wanted to be a Zamboni* driver, but that dream has yet to materialize. :P *For those who live in warm climates, Zamboni is the brand name of a machine that smooths the ice in ice rinks. Winning isn't everything, but then, losing is nothing.
I read an article in the paper today about an ice skating rink in Phoenix. Did you know that it costs $20,000 each month in electricity to keep the thing frozen? Oh, the manager's favorite part of the job is that he gets to run the Zamboni:laugh: Keep dreaming; you never know...:-D
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Konstantin Vasserman wrote: How many of you have had dreams about what you are going to be doing when you'll grow up? I did, and I must me lucky as I am beginning to realise them now. Well all apart from the one about marrying a goat and having hundreds and hundreds of kids, but my psychiatrist told me that was to be expected. ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
How's the new medication working out?
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How's the new medication working out?
The pretty nurse tells me I will be able to return to the farm next Friday. I'm looking forward to seeing Bruce and Dolly again. ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
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The pretty nurse tells me I will be able to return to the farm next Friday. I'm looking forward to seeing Bruce and Dolly again. ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
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How many of you have had dreams about what you are going to be doing when you'll grow up? I've dreamed of working with AI and Expert systems and writing cool games and doing all kind of interesting things like that. That was over 15 years ago. Then I've spent next 15+ years of my life doing everything but what I wanted to do. I don't know why. I guess I've made some wrong choices. Maybe life threw a few things here and there to make it go the other way. But the result is still the same - I am pretty far from where I wanted to be a long time ago. I have suddenly realized all of this today and it makes me very sad. Don't get me wrong: I have a very good job, I am working with very good people, I am being recognized and appreciated for the most part. I am doing very well on the big scale of things. But I have this feeling throughout my life that I am capable of much more than what I do now. I am not saying that I consider myself the greatest programmer alive. I am just saying that I think that I am pretty good and that I have the potential to come up with some idea or be involved in something awesome, something that will make it all worthwhile. Am I making any sense here? Now I'm being torn between the thought that I am just imagining that I am something that I am not and the thought that I am pissing my life away doing a bunch of meaningless stuff... Is there anybody who can relate? Am I taking my childhood dreams too far? Am I a nut case?
Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Now I'm being torn between the thought that I am just imagining that I am something that I am not and the thought that I am pissing my life away doing a bunch of meaningless stuff... The saddest thing about what society teaches you is that it does not teach you that you are literally capable of anything you set your mind to. You are responsible for your life, for every aspect of it. Life does throw twists at you, but it is the people we call successful who take the twist and come out better from it. As the greats in life say "It is strange, the harder I work, the more lucky I get." i.e. They make their own luck, they direct their own lives, they choose their own path. I do know what you are feeling Konstantin, all I can say is dare to think and do great things. At the very least you will achieve more than you would have had you not dared. The bottom line is this: People you look up to, the greats in our world, they are just people. They do not have special powers nor does Lady Luck deal them better dice. Through that you will realise that you are just as capable as them of achieving everything, and more than, you want. Konstantin, you are responsible for your path in life, no one else. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Sonork ID: 100.9903 Stormfront
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I am at the verge of my adult life so this is where I finally get a chance to fulfill my dreams. Right now I'm getting all the experience/diplomas I need to start out. Hopefully I'll get a big project in a couple of weeks (pays great too) and in 6 months I'm hoping to move south and FINALLY go to Uni. My whole life is going through a change now, getting ready to leave home, my friends and family. A fresh start in a new place all by myself. Scary and exciting at the same time. Ask me in 15 years and I'll answer your question. I can hardly wait. Isaac Sasson, Small time programmer - complainer at large. Sonork ID 100.13704
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Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Now I'm being torn between the thought that I am just imagining that I am something that I am not and the thought that I am pissing my life away doing a bunch of meaningless stuff... The saddest thing about what society teaches you is that it does not teach you that you are literally capable of anything you set your mind to. You are responsible for your life, for every aspect of it. Life does throw twists at you, but it is the people we call successful who take the twist and come out better from it. As the greats in life say "It is strange, the harder I work, the more lucky I get." i.e. They make their own luck, they direct their own lives, they choose their own path. I do know what you are feeling Konstantin, all I can say is dare to think and do great things. At the very least you will achieve more than you would have had you not dared. The bottom line is this: People you look up to, the greats in our world, they are just people. They do not have special powers nor does Lady Luck deal them better dice. Through that you will realise that you are just as capable as them of achieving everything, and more than, you want. Konstantin, you are responsible for your path in life, no one else. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Sonork ID: 100.9903 Stormfront
Paul Watson wrote: The saddest thing about what society teaches you is that it does not teach you that you are literally capable of anything you set your mind to. Being capable of anything is to be like a god and we cannot have people being like gods in our society, can we? X| ;) Paul Watson wrote: The bottom line is this: People you look up to, the greats in our world, they are just people. It is amazing how we always tend to put people we don't know on the pedestals and look up to them without even knowing who they really are and what they've done... Paul Watson wrote: Konstantin, you are responsible for your path in life, no one else. I know, but sometimes it is not very clear what the next step should be and then you just need throw it out there and see what other people think... :) Thank you. :rose:
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Paul Watson wrote: The saddest thing about what society teaches you is that it does not teach you that you are literally capable of anything you set your mind to. Being capable of anything is to be like a god and we cannot have people being like gods in our society, can we? X| ;) Paul Watson wrote: The bottom line is this: People you look up to, the greats in our world, they are just people. It is amazing how we always tend to put people we don't know on the pedestals and look up to them without even knowing who they really are and what they've done... Paul Watson wrote: Konstantin, you are responsible for your path in life, no one else. I know, but sometimes it is not very clear what the next step should be and then you just need throw it out there and see what other people think... :) Thank you. :rose:
Konstantin Vasserman wrote: Being capable of anything is to be like a god and we cannot have people being like gods in our society, can we? Well I could go into how it it is not like God, but we don't have time for that. Rather, this is where responsibility and respect for others comes in. Society does not teach us many things which it should. Konstantin Vasserman wrote: It is amazing how we always tend to put people we don't know on the pedestals and look up to them without even knowing who they really are and what they've done... Yup, and you find out that your cricket idol is actually a normal bloke with the same problems you have. Konstantin Vasserman wrote: you just need throw it out there and see what other people think... That is true :) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Sonork ID: 100.9903 Stormfront