What is your end goal?

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smash ass make cash

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The problem with having an end goal is what do you do if you reach it? What do you do when it is no longer possible to reach it?

I'd rather just keep moving in a direction that I am happy with.

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To have a massive BBQ + Teppanyaki grill, have my friends and neighbours round for an annual summer party and reap in the compliments about how good my grill is. I’ll pretend not to listen whilst I’m just grilling away in whatever apron my future wife treats me for Christmas.

Not even joking

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President of Earth

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All I want is a detached house in a good catchment area, a Range Rover for me/wife and a Mini for kids, annual holiday to The Mediterranean.

This seems to be getting increasingly harder to achieve though

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Death. Simple

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