What do you need most in your life?

[micromass]

Please select in the poll what you could use most in your life. If you want, you can tell us why

 

[Char. Limit]

I didn't see "a steady supply of free money" in there, so I went with the next best thing: motivation to actually make something of myself.

 

[WannabeNewton]

Where's the junk food option? Oreos are the most important thing in my life.

 

[StatGuy2000]

This is a very difficult question to even begin to answer for me, since at any given point in my life, what I need from my life could vary tremendously.

 

[micromass]

This is a very difficult question to even begin to answer for me, since at any given point in my life, what I need from my life could vary tremendously.

Let's say "what do you need most right now"

 

[Rockoz]

i need micromass in my life

 

[Student100]

I didn't see "a steady supply of free money" in there, so I went with the next best thing: motivation to actually make something of myself.

I assumed freedom included free money, and women dancing around in tight bikinis while shooting guns off into the air. So that’s what I went with.

 

[StatGuy2000]

Let's say "what do you need most right now"

OK, with that in mind, I chose "wisdom", since I'm constantly seeking greater knowledge within both my own subject field and facts about a wide range of areas outside of my field. Although I could have just as easily selected "understanding".

 

[micromass]

i need micromass in my life

Keep posting on PF and I'll always remain in your life!

 

[Matterwave]

Would it be fair if I voted for all of them at once?

 

[micromass]

Would it be fair if I voted for all of them at once?

If that's what you need to do...

 

[jbunniii]

After 4+ months of dealing with annoying house guests, I'm going to have to vote for peace.

 

[Evo]

I need sleep. Why isn't that in your poll?

 

[edward]

At my age I need some more energy, bit I will settle for some motivation. Sometimes when I get started at something the energy follows.

 

[mfb]

PhysicsForums is missing in the poll.

I also miss the option "long polls".

 

[micromass]

PhysicsForums is missing in the poll.

PF includes all the poll options!

 

[wukunlin]

I think motivation I think...almost unemployed for half a year...

wait, what am I doing again?

 

[lisab]

Confidence and Faith. I think big changes are brewing and it's hard to make a leap into the unknown. (Btw, I don't mean faith in supernatural things - I'm atheist. I mean faith that things will turn out OK.)

Looking at this list made me very aware of the good things I have : Love, Wisdom ( I hope), Peace, Freedom...I'm very lucky!

 

[cobalt124]

Most of my life I've wanted Peace, and for the most part I feel I have almost achieved it at last (though I don't sound too convincing).

 

[Enigman]

Strength, wisdom, peace, creativity, selective forgetfulness and umm...time to gripe about boredom.
(And another whiteboard...this one has a huge 'bubble' in the center.)[/size][/color]

 

[Drakkith]

Oh, where's OmCheeto when you need him?

 

[Ryan_m_b]

I've gone for confidence but a lot of these are interconnected. Confidence will make it easier to find love, which in turn can grant more confidence. Being in love can also lead to passion, kindness and wisdom. Confidence also can help with motivation etc etc.

But yeah, I guess for me confidence is what I most identify with.

 

[leroyjenkens]

Of all of those options, sleep is the only one you can't live without. Next is healing, because without that, you'd bleed to death from the slightest cut.

 

[StatGuy2000]

Confidence and Faith. I think big changes are brewing and it's hard to make a leap into the unknown. (Btw, I don't mean faith in supernatural things - I'm atheist. I mean faith that things will turn out OK.)

Looking at this list made me very aware of the good things I have : Love, Wisdom ( I hope), Peace, Freedom...I'm very lucky!

Hi lisab. If you don't mind my asking, I'm curious as to what big changes do you think are brewing. Please feel free to PM me if my question is too personal.

 

[OmCheeto]

I didn't see "a steady supply of free money" in there, so I went with the next best thing: motivation to actually make something of myself.

I have a "steady supply of free money" now. But this yields a monumental lack of motivation to do anything other than sit on the front porch, drink beer, and watch the tweakers ride by on their bicycles at 70 mph.

hmmm...

What's the difference between a crackhead and a tweaker?
The crackhead will steal your [stuff] and bounce^[1]--the tweaker will steal your [stuff] and then help you look for it.

(ref)

As for the rest,

I either have it:
Courage, Love, Strength, Confidence, Wisdom, Understanding, Kindness, Healing, Forgiveness, Freedom, Patience (except with fools. I do not suffer them gladly...), Hope, Faith, Passion

don't need any more of it:
Sleep (I got through last night without a charley horse. Yippie! I even slept through a thunderstorm that rolled through at 1 am)

or am not delusional enough to think such a thing is possible:
Peace

Oh, where's OmCheeto when you need him?

I am here! What do you require Lord Drakkith?

[1] v. to exit a location/situation

 

[micromass]

Hey, who added sleep to my poll?

 

[zoobyshoe]

I have a "steady supply of free money" now. But this yields a monumental lack of motivation to do anything other than sit on the front porch, drink beer, and watch the tweakers ride by on their bicycles at 70 mph.

I'm too altruistic to let you wallow without motivation. From now on you are required to send your free money to me.

 

[OmCheeto]

Hey, who added sleep to my poll?

A poll diddler, no doubt...

 

[OmCheeto]

I'm too altruistic to let you wallow without motivation. From now on you are required to send your free money to me.

Ok. But there will be a $19.95 shipping and handling fee for each $5.00 I send you. Deal?

 

[Medicol]

is "most" defined at present or one that has been kept in my heart for a long time ? I can't tell you the latter, I now need money most, which isn't polled up there though.

 

[cjl]

Since I don't see an option for beer (every poll should have an option for beer!), I choose sleep. Sleep is a glorious thing, and I don't get enough of it...

 

[lisab]

Hi lisab. If you don't mind my asking, I'm curious as to what big changes do you think are brewing. Please feel free to PM me if my question is too personal.

Several months ago I was moved into a new position at work. I didn't want to do it because I had a strong feeling it wouldn't suit me. But it did come with a bit of a pay raise. I wasn't given a choice, in any case.

Well, I was right: it doesn't suit me. So...now what?

 

[Lisa!]

It's not in the list!

 

[DataGG]

Hey, who added sleep to my poll?

Ya, I found "sleep" to be an outlier. It's obvious we need sleep. If there's "sleep", there should also be "water" and "food".

 

[zoobyshoe]

Ok. But there will be a $19.95 shipping and handling fee for each $5.00 I send you. Deal?

No, the idea is for you to have less money so your motivation will return, and for me to have more. That way it's win-win.

 

[Drakkith]

Ok. But there will be a $19.95 shipping and handling fee for each $5.00 I send you. Deal?

Sure, but there's a $29.95 packaging fee for your $19.95. Envelopes aren't free, you know.

 

[phinds]

This poll is incomplete. It does not include pizza.

 

[Lavabug]

Humor.

 

[consciousness]

Faith that I can get everything I need, when I need it.

 

[fluidistic]

My glasses, but that would be the odd one in the list. Otherwise: thinking.
I'm looking at the list and I don't know which one to pick... The ones I would never pick are faith and hope.

 

[StatGuy2000]

Several months ago I was moved into a new position at work. I didn't want to do it because I had a strong feeling it wouldn't suit me. But it did come with a bit of a pay raise. I wasn't given a choice, in any case.

Well, I was right: it doesn't suit me. So...now what?

Well, you can always search for a new position (maybe a home-based position, if possible?) that would suit you? That's what I've done in the past and it has turned out well for me. Of course, YMMV.

 

[AnTiFreeze3]

Voted for understanding and sleep, but in retrospect realize I value freedom more than the rest. My life needs to be my own.

 

[Choppy]

I need everything that's listed.

I think the recurring theme in my life lately though is something that's not listed: time.

Many days I feel like I'm stuck fighting in a scenario where, regardless of what I do, I'm letting someone down because there's too much to do and not enough time to do it in. I like to believe though that most ambitious people face this problem.

 

[reenmachine]

Voted Courage, Confidence, Motivation, Hope, Passion and Sleep.

Strenght is unclear to me, is it physical strenght? If it is then I don't think it's crucial.Love is also unclear, I assumed it was meant as love between a man and a woman and not as parent love in childhood, with the first one being a luxury and the second one being crucial.Understanding is another, of course you need understanding of some things, but it was too vague for me to vote for it.Freedom depends on what kind of freedom you are talking about.If you're stuck in prison then yeah, you need freedom.If freedom is say not living in Russia because "it's not a free country as much as the USA", then no.

EDIT: Obviously before voting I didn't read OP, I always do that :facepalm:

In my life I think I could use a higher dose of courage and confidence, and some extra motivation.I do have hope in the future for the moment, my sleep is okay and I have a lot of passion.

 

[fireflies]

Since most- so I selected the MOSTs, like I need courage or confidence now more than freedom while even somedays ago I needed freedom most than anything else.But why did you not give things like support or friends/family??

The best I could select right now: courage, love, confidence, peace, understanding, motivation and healing

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I check all of them. On discussion boards I need to talk to people who do not share the same account most, while off boards in face to face debates I prefer non-aggressive, mature , sincere, gentle and smart people. So I decide to hang around with gay men only.

 

[jackmell]

Don't you guys think if you have wisdom you have all the rest? The wisdom to give me courage, the wisdom to give me strength, the wisdom to know what true love is, and the wisdom to know what I really need in life.

 

[Enigman]

Coming back to this thread a year later, I could do with some healing too, along with strength, wisdom and peace.

 

[OmCheeto]

Ugh. I'm still sitting on my front porch, drinking beer.
Now I know why I hated retired people so much...
What a bunch of lazy [plural expletive deleted]!

 

[davenn]

@Enigman, yeah ... me too, after 3 years of ongoing dreadful health problems
I just want to be well again. I have long forgotten what it is like to be pain and other health issues free Dave