I want to live

You could fall in love, get married, have a kid and raise a family. The whole process is a real eye opener and, possibly, the ultimate provider of wisdom.

Wisdom comes only with age. Enjoy nature, and travel the world. Meet new and different people/cultures. Spend money on experiences, not on unnecessary stuff. Learn to play an instrument. Never stop learning.

Grab a pen and notepad and start writing.<p>Write down (in great detail) every single childhood dream that you can remember. ANYTHING in life that you have dreamed of doing. WRITE WRITE AND WRITE until your hand falls off.<p>From there organize these "dreams" into goals of what you can do now and what you can aim for in the future.<p>I did this on January 1st this year, and so far this has been the greatest year of my life. Trust me, always side with your heart. Your childhood fantasies represent the real you.<p>Since completing this exercise I have learned how to scuba dive (dream of swimming with fish), sky dive (dream of flying), surf (love surfing!), learned "pick up" from a master (always wanted to have women in my life), in the process of learning how to code and start my own startup (my childhood dream wasn't to be an astronaut or fire fighter, I wanted to be an inventor!).

I feel a person only enjoys his life if there is unpredictability, which adds excitement. I guess specifically asking others what excites them is kinda pointless. Just think of something which you may enjoy doing but have never tried, and just go out and do it.<p>Do you listen to music? Ever wondered how guitarists play the guitar? Seems like fun? Take a guitar class. Who knows.. If you get good at it, you might find some like minded musicians and form a band.<p>Do you think outdoor activities would be fun? Try hiking, camping, travel, etc.<p>Have you ever wondered how much fun it would be to dance, but have never tried it because you don't want to embarrass yourself? Take a dancing class. Hit the clubs!<p>Basically, you have the entire world at your disposal! You are very lucky to have enough time to yourself to try new things.

All this came from reading this-&#62; <a href="http://i.imgur.com/ztpGt.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/ztpGt.png</a> and I think it's pretty accurate.

Please disregard this, I put very little effort in giving you any real information to know anything or understand anything about this situation. That was stupid of me. I'm an avid reader of the site, and I was in a state of looking for help, but I'm weak in asking the right questions. Thanks for your input.

find some hobbies or things that get you excited on a daily basis in your free time?<p>honestly, this is so personal and subjective all you can really do is try a lot of different things<p>maybe you want to be comfortable, "happy", or "make a difference"<p>as long as you reach the point where you feel truly satisfied and truly happy with what you are doing, it probably doesn't matter what you're doing (unless you hurt others, I suppose, lol)<p>I don't think that the question should be so much "how to live life" or "take a risk", it should be more about how you can be satisfied about who you are, what you do, on a daily basis because you've found a place/position in this world to call your own<p>of course most of us will have a hard time figuring this out and actually finding where we can be happy is a constant search

Devote time to creating meaning in your life, something that you dedicate your default free time to. When you find out what you're driven by (hint: it's not a job), you'll wake up each day with a heightened sense of awareness and excitement.<p>Highly recommended book to read: Life on Purpose, Brad Swift

Turn off your computer, get out off the house! Take a camera or video camera, record your experiences.<p>Chat to people you meet, have an affair or three, learn to paint, learn a musical instrument or ten, sing in public, go to the galleries, go to the opera, concerts. TRAVEL and do all of the above.

Not exactly what you asked for, but I find this thread inspiring:<p>"Ask HN: Cool Things You've Done (Brag Thread)" <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200959" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200959</a>

I would love to finally find something that i absolutely love to do and spend all my life doing it. I like programming, but it's more a means to an end. So i'd like to suggest that you find what you love to do.

Only one suggestion: turn off your computer and see what happens from there.

Travel.

One word. Travel.

<i>What do you do?</i><p>I post on the internet to avoid having to actually do things, just like you are now.<p><i>How can I take the plunge into a non calculated, risky maneuver of experience to gain wisdom over knowledge.</i><p>Not by asking an internet community to suggest things you can read about and plan to one day do.<p>Why do you need an exciting life oh wait you answered that, because you're afraid nobody will love you if you're boring. Now you're trying to live a life you don't particularly desire but feel socially pressured into living so you're avoiding doing so by asking instead of doing.<p>Let's face it, if this was a real desire for excitement instead of a desire to seem exciting, you wouldn't be asking us "how do I live an exciting life", you'd be asking yourself "how do I want to feel? Excited? OK, what can I do that looks exciting and enjoyable? Hot air ballooning? Where can I get a flight around here? How much is it? How long until I can afford that? When can I book it? This is going to be so cool! I can't wait!"<p>&#60;/armchair psychoanalysis&#62;

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