What is your ideal life?

@magicalTree4461

I have never considered what ideal life would look like. When i ponder the future i see ruin and decay not perfection. 

@magicalTree4461 my ideal life, I'd be healthy I wouldn't be disabled and in constant pain.  If live in cabin in the woods, I'd have a magic freezer and fridge and food cupboard and whenever I want something it would appear. I'd be happy all the time. I'd have a hot tub, and access to all my needs. It would be beautiful cabin with beautiful surroundings, I wouldn't have all these ugly scars, and I'd be safe, no more living in fear ❤ and yep! That's the opposite of my life

@magicalTree4461

What would your ideal life look like? Does it vary much from your current life? Are you taking any steps towards your ideal life or have any related goals?

For me, what seems to stand out is how different my ideal life looked like just one year ago compared to now. They are starkly different from one another, and both of them varied greatly from the life I had been currently living. Funny how that happens, right... 

I think one of the first steps I'm taking toward my new ideal life is accepting the new life I'm currently in, holding space for myself here in all the ways that need be. I'm still grieving a lot of my recent past and things I feel I'm missing out on, and so thinking so far forward seems insurmountable, but something I daydream about often. 

For now, I merely dream of simplicity. My ideal life looks like this, currently: 

By Christmas, my apartment is clean, organized, and sterilized. I've gone through my diagnostic tests of the month and have no side effects from them, thankful that I'm in no extra pain and knowing that progress is being made on my physical health. I have clean, cozy clothes. My dog is healthy and happy. I am able to eat food and drink water every day without struggle. Plus, in my ideal world, I feel love and a sense of community. One of my goals is to continue my daily streak here on 7cups and to have a daily streak on Finch, a self-care app I've used for a long while.

Thanks for the prompt! 

@magicalTree4461

I'm wanting to have more fun. So I've been practicing enjoying biking. Like instead of just head down, push push push, I try find fun lines and am practicing ollies. I even went to the skatepark for a bit a few days ago. 

And I'm learning a new song on my guitar...I want to open a cafe/library and have open mic nights. So have been speaking to business owners and looking into entrepreneurship programs.

Hmmm. Am also trying to stress less. And housework stresses me tf out. So I bought myself some nice natural sponges for dishes, a natural brush for the shower.

And to give myself a break from washing dishes three to five time a day, every day, for decades, I bought paper plates, cups, forks, spoons and knives. I've never done it and have always been super mindful of the environment but my middle child genes have taken over I guess.

@magicalTree4461

Maybe something like this?