What do you really want? More than anything.
What is your dream? The one you haven’t realized yet.
What would make you happy? Happier than you’ve ever been.
What do you think about? When you don’t have other things to think about.
What’s the thing that makes you light up? Like you’re bursting.
No really. I want to know.
I want to live in the country and raise Alpacas~oh, and be skinny…live in the country, be skinny, and raise Alpacas!
I want to be in the temple with my husband and every single one of my children and their spouses.
i want us to be on the beach with our spouses and children…all of them. with matey and the parentals. playing baseball, drinking smoothies, and being so tan it's ridiculous. and talking about life.
That is hard. Because there are so many things that make me happy. But I think at this very moment my dream that I have yet to realize is losing all of this baby weight… thinking about it right now (the process of getting there) doesn't make me light up, but being there… I think I would burst.
Yeah, I agree with Kaycie! I cried as I read your request, Krista! My heart aches to to have my family near. It's an eternal yearning!So my answer is: Living near all of my children so we could have Sunday dinners…you can cook most of the time :0)…But I would even cook just to have that! Just near enough to be able to hear all that "noise" and to get a hug. I would live anywhere to have that! And then we could make beautiful music together! That's the music in my soul!
More than anything? To be able to experience a pregnancy – full term with healthy delivery – in this life.
BUT … having said that … right now I AM happier than I've ever been :)
Oh, and losing about 20 lbs would make me happy too. As would producing an album.
And … Rebecca's comment made me laugh out loud! Maybe it's because she's my cousin and I know her … but HA! Love it!
I really want to grow old and gray. I dream about being cancer-free. It would make me happy to get to see each of my children married in the temple. I think about eternity. I light up when I am with my husband and children laughing, and I hope to light up every day for a very, very long time.
I know I'm late in responding, but couldn't resist the chance to just THINK about this.
Writing, speaking, helping women young and old understand and remember who they really are. And somehow incoporate music into that. And teaching. And nursing. or maybe paramedicine.
I do have to add my desire to be skinny to Rebecca's… someday soon I hope there's a big fat check mark next to that one!
Gosh, Krista is it really lame that I still dont have an answer for this?! I guess its hard because this isnt the life that I imagined having, becoming LDS changes your goals and dreams and I guess I have been so caught up in the everyday life of being a wife and mom that I dont know what I truelly want anymore and that is kinda sad. Of course I want to see all my children and their spouses in the temple and I would love to live on the beach and I would love to grow old with my family surrounding me but right now my biggest wish is for a day to myself to sleep and eat junk food without sharing it and read my 1500 emails and google reader posts. :)
I love Heather's post! The last few days I've woken up and thought "what do I really want to do today?" and most of the time it has been 1. eat deliciously fattening fast food 2. either watch a chick flick alone or spend time with girl friends doing something totally self absorbed (like getting a pedicure).
But really, that's not what I REALLY want more than anything. I really want a fantastic relationship with my husband and well adjusted, spiritual, good children. I want all of us to be truly happy because we know who we are and where we're going. I want to be happy even when life is tough. Because it is tough. Like many other people – I really do want my body to be the way I think it should: skinny! And really, nothing would make me more happy than to raise my kids around all of my siblings, Dustin's siblings and their kids. The thought of that makes me want to burst.
So, if I can remember these overall goals when I drag myself out of bed in the morning I'm sure my days would go much differently!
I wish my entire family lived close to one another instead of spread across the country, that our children could grow up together and know eachother more than seeing each other once every year or two. And I wish that if we were all close, that all of my friends and my job and my life here stayed with me- just transplanted in a new place. I wish an awful coworker I have would suddenly win the lottery and move far, far, far away and leave me alone! I wish I could have said good bye to an old friend from high school who suddenly died last week at the age of 31 leaving behind his wife and beautiful girls. I wish that I could accomplish everything I need to accomplish in a day without sacrificing sleep. Oh… I could go on and on but I have to go clean up the house before bed! Oh, I'd also like a maid, a masseuse, and a personal chef! :)
Krista…when i read that post, my first thought was…I don't necessarily WANT anything in particular, I have a pretty good life…so I went my way not responding while still thinking about it.
My life by far is not perfect and there have definately been trials along the way that I would love to change but at the same time…wouldn't…in a heartbeat because they have helped to define who I am on the inside and the out.
That being said, after having lunch with my husband today, I have realized that there is something that I want more than anything in this world…and that is for my husband to be happy…and right now he just isn't.
Jack's house struck a cord with me. Sigh. Don't know her, but I felt her comment. What do I want more than anything??? That one was tough. That's why I haven't posted a response until now. There are lots of things that I "want". Things being the key word there. Part of being human and living in the society we live in I think. But what I really, really want is to grow old and be a grandma. I don't think it's going to happen, in fact, thinking that makes me break down into a million pieces and I can't handle the pain so I DON'T think about it. At least not for very long. But I would love to be healthy and to be old one day. I would give up anything I have to be able to be with my children for a long time.
After reading some of these comments, mine feels a little shallow, but I can own that. I want somebody to like my writing so much that they pay me nicely for it. Or pay me for it, period!
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Shouldn't have read everyone else's because they're deep . . . honestly, the thing I want most is for my kids to be healthy and safe and grow up to be good guys. When I kneel down to pray that's first thing I ask for. Scratch that, beg for. So maybe what I need most is to relax and enjoy all I have. What makes me happy? I have a lot of deep-felt gospel answers, but how about I digress and say dancing – gotta do it more these days!