I was reading a book that asked philosophical and religious questions and one of the questions was “What is your life goal?”
It didn’t ask the purpose of your life (which is a slightly different question), just the one thing you want to get done above all else in your lifetime. And I realised that I don’t really know what mine is.
What’s yours?
1 - 0.
Me v. Them.
Slan,
D.
Who is them?
(P.S. Leave my grammar alone, Bloomfield! 
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My goal is to have enough money - from something legal - coming in so I don’t ever have to have a job and be someone else’s slave ever again. Attention Prize Patrol my address is ********* 
I’m 50 years old and I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
Cran - I think my life goal has changed with time - depending on my age and what was happening in MY life at that time.
At one time, it was just to grow up and work at something I enjoyed and live on my own. I reached that goal by the time I was 21.
While it’s not a “life” goal, after I had kids, my goal was to raise my children to be happy, self supporting adults. I’m still working towards that goal.
Now, I guess my goal is to leave my little corner of the globe at least the same, if not a better place, than when I got here. I do that by sharing my music, volunteering with many groups, etc.
All the rest of those who would try to tell me I am wrong and they are right ( no pun intended)
Slan,
D.
I’m not quite 50, but I feel the same way. I just don’t know what I want to do. I have a better idea than I did two years ago, and two years ago I had a better idea than I did five years ago, so I guess that’s just how it works. Or mabey not.
I want to say my life goal is to “live fully in Christ” because it sounds pretty and I know that’s what it should be, but I really don’t feel like that, at least at the time being.
Just one?
I have a few!
Play music well (and hopefully teach about it).
Get out of this country (for a while at least)
Find the other sock
Find a job that has meaning and that I enjoy (which means doing something to improve the world around us).
Make it through life with out being imprisoned (for a stupid reason).
Already found the person that I love, and hope that we will be with each other for a long time (which means that we should really take care of each other).
I guess I should be doing something about them rather than posting.
Bye!
I want to enjoy life, and, in so doing, perhaps bring joy to others. Everything else is gravy.
To do good and inspire others to do good.
There is more along these lines:
To be a light unto the world
To live in the moment
Some people hear these and tell me I need to do more. Usually more in terms of material possessions, or traditional family roles.
Some of your posts are a bit lumpy..
Slan,
D.
I like lumps as long as they’re not made from animals.
Sorry Cran, it’s sausage gravy. Mmm…
A very deep question, Cran.
My life goal is to do or be something so that the speakers at my funeral won’t have to lie to tell something decent about me.
And I’m not kidding.
Susan
I think ‘should’ is a word we could all do without. Its a word that makes people feel guilty. Without wishing to cause offense to anyone - this is just my personal view - that ‘pretty’ sentence doesn’t make any sense at all - oh I know what people think it means (I was a vicar’s daughter) but its not the way I personally make sense of my spirtituality. Its ok just to be you with whatever beliefs, non-beliefs, certainties or uncertainties are in there. Life is a growing process and it takes time to develop different qualities, and beliefs and certainties and views over years - out from what our experiences and reasonings and values tell us. Different people have different timings for different things. Life is an exciting exploration, an adventure, a research to find out what is true and what isn’t - to know it for yourself. (Unless a person is so cynical they are already dead) It’s a good journey to go on!
I should feel guilty, though, because I am wanting to live 9/10ths in Christ and not fully in Christ like I know I should. I think that’s how most Christians feel. We’re all sinners and we all want to do things our way. It’s something I’m constantly working on. It’s part of the inherent nature of man, I think. We all want to be happy in doing things our way, even though it rarely, if ever, really works.
Its ok just to be you with whatever beliefs, non-beliefs, certainties or uncertainties are in there.
I actually felt that way for about a decade, but now I cannot disagree more. Who says it’s ok?
I think it’s a trap to think that we are “good enough.” It’s a trap to have pride in ourselves and think we can do anything, because we can’t.
Yo Cran…
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx.
It’s life Ma,and Life only.
Bob Dylan.
Slan,
D.
Well Cranberry we’ll have to agree to disagree then - the biggest beef I had with Christianity is that they say we are all sinners - I don’t agree with that. I don’t believe that when an innocent baby is born that its tainted with original sin. And I think that guilt is very corrosive to the human spirit. Sure, like pain, it can be a good indicator if you’ve gone off the straight and narrow - that’s what a conscience is for - but its not a useful emotion otherwise especially when other people and their moralities with their shoulds and shouldn’ts, stick it on you. I believe that God gave us brains to use and a life to experience, to discover what is right and wrong. Who says its ok to be yourself-? I think God does - because he/she/it created us and if thats good enough for God its certainy good enough for me - and God gave us all the equipment to find out what is right and how to live now - not 2000 years ago. Sorry - thats just my personal views - I don’t expect anyone else to necessarily think the same way.
With you there Bro..
Bloody vegetarians…
Slan,
D.
It’s very hard to understand, actually. A lot of Christianity is very difficult to “grasp,” mentally, because it just doesn’t make a lot of sense. I think that’s what the “faith” part is about. Even though something doesn’t make sense with our logical brains, we have to believe it anyway. I think it’s beautiful.
Do I get to change my name to Pat Robertson yet?