What is your goal in life?

[Stuci Firme]

I find it disturbing that this question quells uncomfort and confusion in most people to the point where it's not even asked anymore, or assumed as an obvious given.

I'd have to say that my goal in life is to learn as much as I can about what might happen to me when I die, or why the fuck this world is the way it is, and what exactly IS everything.

I suppose it's one of the more common goals some might have, as well as an intimidating one that doesn't usually get very far; mostly resulting in the complacency of seemingly unanswerable questions.

However, back to how people would rather talk about who fucked who as opposed to discussing why things are things, it seems the biggest anomaly to live in a world full of conscious beings and not see the curiosity of the unknown stimulated a little more on a mainstream scale.

It would seem the natural thing, but I guess being brainwashed and manipulated every waking moment in our society does effect our instinctive abilities.

[Tyler]

my goal is balanced development. which i guess would be to grow as a person in a well rounded way, and most of all stay positive.
i think the most important thing to learn about is yourself. most people don't want to explore their own motivations, and its actually really hard to objectively look at the things you do and try to see through your own justifications and figure out why you would feel/ act that way. or maybe i'm just really weird?

[snoitatnemaloffline]

i don think that anyone really knows themselves as good as they think they do. i learn stuff about myself a lot. i probly will never stop learning stuff about myself...
i also think a reason for this is because we change a lot too... maybe this is just me but i notice changes often in myself...

[snoitatnemaloffline]

ya and about my goal in life... im not too sure what it is exactly... i definately think a lot about everything... i suppose that my goal in life is to find the answers to all the why questions out there... but really thats not my goal because thats probably impossible... so i dont know..

[Arkham]

admin said:

I'd have to say that my goal in life is to learn as much as I can about what might happen to me when I die

buddhists seem to say little about what happens after death because they believe it is of little relevance to 'being here now'. there is one writing that is read to buddhists before they die called the tibetan book of the dead which i read half of before my mom threw it in the garbage. that book really fucks with your head because the hindu/buddhist approach to spirituality is very psychological in nature and rings a lot of bells..

rhetorically, my objective would be to realize my full nature. my darker angels want success and fame..

[seanlame]

I'd like to think I know where I'm going when I die, because I'm Christian, but lets not turn this into a religious debate. My life's goal ultimately is to be happy with what I'm doing, which would probably mean making a living off playing music. Thats out the best thing I could ever do I think.

[Ruby Soho]

Geez, my goal in life...just one? There are so many that I have, or rather have had, so to say that I have ONE would be silly. Just like all goals, I have some that have stuck with me for a long time and I have those that I have realized are unattainable and so I do not persue them anymore.

In all honesty, my goals are based on my own happiness. Perhaps that is selfish - well, hell, it is selfish - but I don't feel guilty about it. I think a lot of people get uncomfortable when asked the question what their goal in life is because their answer is not that they want to end poverty or that they never want to see another child go hungry or that they want to find the cure for cancer or AIDS or those damn genital herpes.

My main goals in life (at this very moment) are to be happy with what life deals me; or at the very least, to be able to cope with what it deals me in a healthy way. I want to find someone who loves me as much as I love them and who makes me a better person by being with them. I want to improve the lives of the people I meet, if only in the smallest way.

I don't care to know what will happen to me when I die, because there is no way of truly knowing (or at least there is no way for ME to truly know, as I am rather pragmatic). I don't care to know what my meaning in life is because I believe it is what you make it, and I don't care if I have tonnes of money or if I have travelled the world or if I have learned about different philosophies on life. Sure, it would be great if it happens, but I don't desire any of it the way I desire to be happy.

[t]

my goals:
bring light into darkness
make other peoples lives easier
travel
be humble

[Arkham]

t said:

bring light into darkness

what if your hydro bill is too much already? i'd be p.o'd if some guy went around turning all the lights on in my house
that's just me though

[neilsucks]

the more times you try to figure it out the shittier it turns out.


give up now, kids!

[snoitatnemal]

yeah music is definately my goal. i dont even need to make money off of it. as long as i can tour and play shows and meet people and be fed and have a place to sleep at night it will be all good..

[seanlame]

But Ryan, food and shelter generally cost money.

Unless you're prostituting yourself.

[snoitatnemal]

you dont have to get paid in money. id rather get paid in food and shelter and gas than have to deal with money all the time. but yeah i think you get my point i just want to play music and travel. being in the same place all the time gets boring.

[albatross]

my goal? to learn to accept. accept what i've got and what i will never have. accept what happens.

i don't want to bring up that damn serenity prayer cause it bugs me, but it's the things i can't change i'm talking about. not the things i can, because i already do what i can to change them.

but learn to be able to accept when something's a dead loss. accept what happens around me without jumping into every emotion that crosses my mind.

that kind of thing. that's what my goal is

[wgs]

be happy, not die alone.