Ask Lemmy

I think "perfect" anything is hard/impossible to properly think of, and the concept of a perfect life is, at the very least, extremely childish. "Good life" is understandable and achievable, and I guess it involves feeling like you belong, like your life has purpose, and being accompanied and cared for by those close to you, in whatever shape those things come?

Perfect for me would be a situation where I don't have to go to work, and I could just walk down to the beach and lay in the sun and smoke weed everyday.

I couldn't even picture what perfect would be like? I guess having infinite wishes like some sort of goated genie? I think whatever I would say is the "perfect" life today, might not be the case tomorrow, so I guess the ability to always live my perfect life would be a perfect life.

Obviously that is hypothetical and not actually realistic. However, right now, I'd love to be no longer lonely, have plenty of great friendships, be comfortable financially, check off some bucket list items, have a gf, be able to live a simple life and e.g. go smoke weed in nature whenever I feel like it (just an example of having freedom, and free time). However, non of those seem attainable rn. And it must be next to impossible to have all those things - people in that situation must be pretty damn lucky.

It'd be me living off grid in a tiny home with my cat, growing food and making art.

my life is pretty much perfect.

i just don't have a wife or kids. that is all that is missing. but when i date my happiness with my life is a major turn off for most women I meet. Apparently I'm supposed to be miserable with my life because I'm not a billionaire or something.

Perfect doesn't exist.

I want to work on the sea. I want to meet new people. I want to destroy the current status quo of the world.

I really would have liked to have become a history or math professor at a small university. Living close enough to campus to walk, getting to go to my colleagues lectures and learn new things, keeping a dozens of books checked out from the library at the same time…

Having enough income from my investments to not have to work and sleeping in every day.

But mostly just being left alone in peace.

I don't think there's anything that would necessarily be perfect, I'm sure anything I think of could be improved. I guess to me, the most perfect life I can think of is one where I have a purpose, a reason to get up in the morning, but nothing too mentally or physically draining. I can do something positive or beneficial, but still have time left over to pursue my music or make sure to make something nice for dinner or whatever, if that makes sense. I don't need a lot, and I don't mind routine. I just want it to be meaningful and enjoyable, at least some of the time.

More media, fewer people. 😉

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

In a similar position, nowhere near what my perfect life would be. Not even remotely close to it ever happening.

Be in a loving relationship. (Been single for ~10 years. Longest relationship was 8 months...)

Have a secure job that pays well that I enjoy. (I'm 40, uneducated, and work in a factory.)

Own a home where I can have a garden and a workspace for crafts.(See #1&2 for why that's never happening, currently renting a garage "apartment.")

My life now but just enough more money to feel secure and also I'd be a girl

Most of my anguish in life is watching bad shit happen to others, both people and animals. I suppose a "perfect life" would be having the means to do something significant. I don't mean a few thousand to charity each year, but actual world-changing amounts.

The biggest improvements to my own life would be expanding my social circle, improved physical fitness, and having enough money that I could stop working.

4 hours of work 5 days a week. 5 weeks off per year.

Enough money to not worry about money.

A short run in the morning, short weightlifting after work, yoga in the evening. Two non consecutive rest days with just stretching and walking. To feel good enough to do that so I can keep feeling good enough to do that.

Going out on one weekend night to do something, staying in the other nights.

Pet cats, and maybe one dog.

Traveling somewhere every year.

And having enough money also to get the house in the shape we want.

Basically I want a well funded partial retirement.

For me it would be having a paid for house with land enough to not see the neighbors. Ownership of a cigar shop that was popular in the town I live, with employees that are well paid and health insured, and then money to travel with my wife and kid a couple times a year. Nothing wild like a month on the beach or anything.. but a week trip to Disney or cedar point etc..

Mine's simple and realistic, yet increasingly difficult with the state of my life right now: a life where my kid would try to remember important moments of their life and not find a single one of them where I was not there. I myself won't be even remotely perfect. My kid will be able to tell when and where I failed as a parent or as a person. "Yet that old son of a bitch was always there for me." I can live with that.

A life of comfort free from illusions or force with a supportive "community" or "family".