The 3 most important things in your life

In My Humble Opinion
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I was asked this question on a job survery, I was wondering how the Dopers would answer.

List, in order, the 3 things most important to you in life outside of work?

  1. Family
  2. Health
  3. Happiness

I Zen-ed them good on that one huh :slight_smile:

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  1. Happiness - in it’s many forms, which would include:
    a) wellfare of my kids
    b) financial success
    c) health
    d) satisfying relationship/friendship

  2. New car every couple of years… something german… sport sedan… fast and understated.

  3. A fast ship, following breeze, and a star to sail her by.

3

Family
Health/appearance
Independence

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Why outside of work? That implies that work is automatically #1.

I guess #1 would be My Wife. #2 would be my health (physical and mental). #3 would be my other loved ones (family, friends, cats, etc.)

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  1. Husband
  2. Kids
  3. Self respect.

I guess #1 and #2 are roughly tied, but there are far fewer instances in which I’m tempted to place #1 in a box and ship him to Outer Mongolia, than with #2 :smiley:

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  1. Drink.
  2. Arse.
  3. Girls.
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HA … yeah I should have said …

  1. Sex
  2. Drugs
  3. Hip-Hop
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Can you really categroize it like that? But I guess it would be:

  1. Enjoying life, so I guess happiness.
  2. My boyfriend, excuse me, my fiance. (I stil haven’t gotten used to saying that.)
  3. Third is difficult…
    After much thought I don’t think I can come up with an answer that would supercede everything else.
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Family
Health
School/Career

10

  1. Books

  2. Books

  3. Books

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  1. Peace
  2. Love
  3. Understanding

In that order.

12

Peace of mind/contentment
Scientific research
Family

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  1. Health

  2. My children, husband and the rest of the family. In that order.

  3. A decent fitting bra and comfortable shoes.

14

Family
Accomplishment
I dunno computers? pizza? sdmb?

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  1. Family
  2. Health
  3. Financial independence

And if I can go on …

  1. Freedom
  2. Rewarding work

With the above five things, I’d be a happy person.

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Yup. More of #1 would be nice though…

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I feel that there are three important pillars:

people you can depend on
a good home to live in
a fulfilling occupation

If one of these isn’t right, but the other two are, you have sufficient fallback to remain happy, and to work on the third, which you should so that you have two backups in case another fails. If two of these aren’t right, you’re in a danger zone. If three of them aren’t right, you’re down and out, and you’ll need some very good luck to get picked up again.

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Hard to really list, but three important things in my life would be:

Friends/Making others happy
The cliche doing-something-never-done
Knowledge/Using the knowledge/Using the knowledge to help others, which bleeds into number 1

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Health, happiness, friends, family, and love, I suppose.

I just wish I had any of them.

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  1. Mr. Athena, my parents, my dogs. In that order, health and happiness for all.
  2. My own health
  3. Brain stimulation: books, the Internet, movies. In that order.