this is the start, where will it end?

[artifact]

Hi

The man said introduce yourself, always one to do as I'm told (yeah right) here is my cry to all you lovely people!

Whazzzzuppppp I hear you cry, don't ask me, I don't have a clue, I'm just looking for some fun, entertainment and light hearted relief to take me away from my enjoyable but average life, to get out into a different world and see what's about (just in case I'm missing something!), to find out where I can get to from here and who is interested in joining me on my journey

Why AcmeLove? why not, the ball has to start rolling somewhere and this seems to be a good a place to start...

...he sits back in the chair and waits to see where the journey will end...

[Kaisharga]

Ah, but what if the journey has no end? Wouldn't that be so much better ;)

"The legend will never die."
--Soul Calibur

[iain]

were ever you go,there you are!:)

[artifact]

iain: but will I be there alone, and what will I have learnt?

Kaisharga: without an end a journey is very self-indulgent, the end provides an opportunity to reflect, do you carry on? or start a new journey? the end is a place of new choices, not a full stop.

[Kaisharga]

There is no end to the Road of Life. Each path's end is another's beginning, there are no stops. Just a few rest spots, and I guess a couple gas stations too. Let there be no end to the story that you tell with your life--only turn the pages, and enter new chapters.

Who says an everlasting story is self-indulgent? There is often more than one protagonist in a story of length...

--Kaisharga of Metaphorz

[artifact]

A journey can be self-indulgent if it's undertaken purely for your own benefit, if however you are willing to share the experiences and lessons learnt along the way with fellow journeymen/women, it could be the path to self-enlightenment.

Every story has to have new chapters and new beginnings to keep the reader interested, otherwise the book would sit on the shelf, gathering dust, unloved and unwanted.

...the horizon never gets any closer, the distance travelled just gets longer and hopefully the traveller and his companions a bit wiser...

[iain]

you see when you are there,you will know in your heart,that you have reached the end of your path.the path of life is long and bent,you may take short cuts,but you will get to the end no quicker,.i say explore your self,get drunk,smoke some sh**,have sex with your own kind(except me) then your path of life will start to take shape.follow it ,use the force,but be true.................

ill send the bill.:D

[Byron]

Welcome artifact.

I feel the journey is as important as the end. The real purpose of a goal is what it makes of you as a human being while you pursue it. Who you become as a person is the ultimate reward.

Don't put off joy and happiness. To so many people, goal setting means that only someday, after they've achieved something great, will they be able to enjoy life. There's huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress towards a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.

[Kaisharga]

Maybe a better way to explain it would be with the concept of I.

What am I?

Who am I?

What makes me me?

Am I a college student? Yes, but a college student is not what makes Me. It is certainly a level that I have worked my way to acquiring, but it is but a stepping stone to self-actualization.

So who am I? What makes me?

I am Kaisharga. I am Priam. I am Doctor Doppelganger. I am (name censored). I am all the personae I assume ever, on any basis, at any time--and these personae are all me, but I am not any one in particular. Each of these is a facet of the person that I am, and my educational, marital, or employment stati have little, if anything, to do with that.

The 'journey' is a misnomor. It it not a path that we are walking, it is an existence that we are enacting, and we can never stop doing so.

--Kaisharga, who thinks his meaning probably got lost in the shuffle somewhere

[artifact]

Kaisharga, Iain and Byron don't know about you but I think this is all getting a bit to philosophical (I've just arrived at work and there's no milk -again- and I can't cope without coffee!), and with to many mixed metaphors!

Time to turn the page and start a fresh chapter, methinks!

I'm sure we will meet again, the ball has started rolling, thaks for the push... :bouncy: