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Title: What excites you? What drives you?
Post by: Orchid on November 11, 2015, 03:08:37 PM
Post by: Orchid on November 11, 2015, 03:08:37 PM
Sometimes I find that passion withers- I always find it come back, however, in different forms. For me I am fascinated by a particular career field where I see boundless potential for success, so when I have a so-so day I have something to be excited about, and move towards.
I imagine that for everyone else, passion comes in different shades. What excites you whenever you think about it? Is it something you do, or want to do? Is it a person in your life? Is it transitioning?
I imagine that for everyone else, passion comes in different shades. What excites you whenever you think about it? Is it something you do, or want to do? Is it a person in your life? Is it transitioning?
Title: Re: What excites you? What drives you?
Post by: Deborah on November 11, 2015, 03:28:48 PM
Post by: Deborah on November 11, 2015, 03:28:48 PM
I've already done all the exciting things I ever wanted to do.. Transitioning makes me happy. But I get really involved in just thinking about philosophy.
I know, I'm weird. LOL
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Title: Re: What excites you? What drives you?
Post by: suzifrommd on November 11, 2015, 03:40:21 PM
Post by: suzifrommd on November 11, 2015, 03:40:21 PM
Quote from: Orchid on November 11, 2015, 03:08:37 PM
Sometimes I find that passion withers- I always find it come back, however, in different forms. For me I am fascinated by a particular career field where I see boundless potential for success, so when I have a so-so day I have something to be excited about, and move towards.
I imagine that for everyone else, passion comes in different shades. What excites you whenever you think about it? Is it something you do, or want to do? Is it a person in your life? Is it transitioning?
I am post transition, so that part of my life is behind me. I'm excited by the idea of helping other people live with being transgender, to understand what is happening to them, and to transition if that's what they choose. I'm also excited to educate non-trans people about us and to try to bring about change so it's easier for us to be ourselves.
Title: Re: What excites you? What drives you?
Post by: stephaniec on November 11, 2015, 04:04:09 PM
Post by: stephaniec on November 11, 2015, 04:04:09 PM
estrogen and beautiful expensive dresses I'll never be able to afford and Susan's and some other things
Title: Re: What excites you? What drives you?
Post by: SashaGrace on November 11, 2015, 04:52:14 PM
Post by: SashaGrace on November 11, 2015, 04:52:14 PM
I'm as transitioned as I ever want to be; I'm really proud of what I have considering I was an ugly child haha; I had big jam jar spec and over ear hearing aids (I'm almost completely deaf btw but I have small in ear ones now and I can hear OK, but without them in I'm as deaf as a post and can't hear anything) but now I'm a slim size 8, I love my body and I'm really happy with how my looks have turned out from HRT so with that behind me to a point so I'm looking forward to living a normal life. I'm married now and have a gorgeous wife and son and I'm in a good place. I'm so close to finishing my teacher training and looking for full time jobs, my wife is retraining in a new profession after years in retail, I'm looking forward to starting my career after wanting to be a teacher all my life and overcoming a few hurdles to get there. With being hard of hearing it makes controlling a class hard work as if there's multiple people speaking or noise around me I find it impossible to understand what people are saying so I've had to learn to manage that. I'm working with a local charity that's going nationwide soon to promote the installation of the loop system in schools to help kids that are hard of hearing.
I'm always driven to succeed; yeah I have bad days but one day I dream of designing and building a home for us (My degree is Product Design with a Qualified Teacher Status, so I teach Design & Tech in school but I'm a qualified designer by trade) and I'm always looking at new build houses to get ideas. We are putting our house for sale soon to move to a bigger one; we've lived here 13 months and I've totally re-modelled it and installed a new kitchen, bathroom, floors etc and loved every minute. I strive for perfection in everything I do so making the house perfect is what I want to achieve.
Also I dream to one day own a Ferrari. I'm very very lucky to achieved what I have in my 21 years because I have been able to do so much; I've worked very hard but been very lucky too. I dreamt of owning a Range Rover and for my 20th birthday I bought myself one; a 2004 Vogue Td6 in Bonatti Grey with Sandstone leather. It was beautiful but really unreliable so I traded it for my 2008 Volvo XC70 D5. I'm lucky to have had a Rangie though but one day the ultimate dream would be a Ferrari F430 Spider. They are still £70,000 odd right now but they are climbing again! If I ever get one I'll be happy.
But in reality, all that is material. What I'd really like is to make amends with my parents. I walked out at 16 because I was silly and because they didn't accept my gender and me for who I was straight away I left and lived on my own. I've seen them 4 times in the last 5 years (all at family funerals) but I occasionally talk to my Dad on the phone but he insists on using my old name and male pronouns. I think it's because they don't understand and have limited life experience in terms of LGBT people; they didn't get their heads round it in the 10 mins I gave them and I stormed out. I shouldn't have done it, maybe if I had been more mature about it I'd have been able to share the last 5 years with them; I've met an amazing girl and like I say, we are married now, they have a Grandson they have never met etc etc. There's so many times I'd have liked them with me (getting married really did it for me) that I'd love to try and make amends and fix my mistakes. I'm older and wiser now and 100% complete and clear on who I am and what I want. When I was 16, I flew off the handle, let emotions run away with me and was too stubborn for my own good. I just hope I can fix it one day and they can accept me as their daughter.
I'm always driven to succeed; yeah I have bad days but one day I dream of designing and building a home for us (My degree is Product Design with a Qualified Teacher Status, so I teach Design & Tech in school but I'm a qualified designer by trade) and I'm always looking at new build houses to get ideas. We are putting our house for sale soon to move to a bigger one; we've lived here 13 months and I've totally re-modelled it and installed a new kitchen, bathroom, floors etc and loved every minute. I strive for perfection in everything I do so making the house perfect is what I want to achieve.
Also I dream to one day own a Ferrari. I'm very very lucky to achieved what I have in my 21 years because I have been able to do so much; I've worked very hard but been very lucky too. I dreamt of owning a Range Rover and for my 20th birthday I bought myself one; a 2004 Vogue Td6 in Bonatti Grey with Sandstone leather. It was beautiful but really unreliable so I traded it for my 2008 Volvo XC70 D5. I'm lucky to have had a Rangie though but one day the ultimate dream would be a Ferrari F430 Spider. They are still £70,000 odd right now but they are climbing again! If I ever get one I'll be happy.
But in reality, all that is material. What I'd really like is to make amends with my parents. I walked out at 16 because I was silly and because they didn't accept my gender and me for who I was straight away I left and lived on my own. I've seen them 4 times in the last 5 years (all at family funerals) but I occasionally talk to my Dad on the phone but he insists on using my old name and male pronouns. I think it's because they don't understand and have limited life experience in terms of LGBT people; they didn't get their heads round it in the 10 mins I gave them and I stormed out. I shouldn't have done it, maybe if I had been more mature about it I'd have been able to share the last 5 years with them; I've met an amazing girl and like I say, we are married now, they have a Grandson they have never met etc etc. There's so many times I'd have liked them with me (getting married really did it for me) that I'd love to try and make amends and fix my mistakes. I'm older and wiser now and 100% complete and clear on who I am and what I want. When I was 16, I flew off the handle, let emotions run away with me and was too stubborn for my own good. I just hope I can fix it one day and they can accept me as their daughter.
Title: Re: What excites you? What drives you?
Post by: Harley Quinn on November 11, 2015, 08:01:31 PM
Post by: Harley Quinn on November 11, 2015, 08:01:31 PM
When transition gets to dragging on, I find joy in cars, bikes and other go fast goodies... I am an adrenaline junkie. ::)
I studied mechanical engineering in college. I like to design and build vintage cars, and motorcycles. And then I drive them very fast! He he he... I envision how sexy I'll look driving around in them and it makes me happy. Luckily the projects take a while... so I have no shortage of things to keep me occupied while my body matures.
I studied mechanical engineering in college. I like to design and build vintage cars, and motorcycles. And then I drive them very fast! He he he... I envision how sexy I'll look driving around in them and it makes me happy. Luckily the projects take a while... so I have no shortage of things to keep me occupied while my body matures.
Title: Re: What excites you? What drives you?
Post by: DianneM on November 11, 2015, 08:32:05 PM
Post by: DianneM on November 11, 2015, 08:32:05 PM
Right now it's transition for me and looking forward to the changes that hormones will bring....I'm preoccupied with that as until now it's only been a dream.....
Dianne
xo
Dianne
xo
Title: Re: What excites you? What drives you?
Post by: summer710 on November 11, 2015, 09:06:02 PM
Post by: summer710 on November 11, 2015, 09:06:02 PM
Being outdoors. Snow-capped mountains and fresh powdered snow with empty ski lifts. Being on my bicycle/crabon wunder-bike 30 miles outside the city limits on some farm-to-market road with the wind at my back and the mountains to my side. Old jeans, ballcap, and broken-in cowboy (cowgirl?) boots. Jacked up 4x4s. My camera, my journal, and a plane ticket to visit someplace new (or a favorite old place).