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What are your Life Goals?
13 years ago
They don't have to be life goals necessarily, but perhaps just things you truly aspire to achieve in the near or far future. Having just turned 24 (not really much of a landmark birthday haha, but still), I've been thinking a lot about what REALLY drives me in life. And when it comes down to it, it's the most basic things that call out to me. I feel that my personal goals include removing the "middle man" from my life as much as possible, this "middle man" being money, and the basics being water, food, and shelter. Very idealistic, but not impossible. And my ideas for solutions to this conundrum have been all over the map, from somehow living in the woods (completely impossible for many reasons) to living with an "intentional community" a.k.a. ecovillage or commune (very feasible). But my latest focus has been nomadic life, specifically in the realm of the ocean. Now what business does a single female child of a Californian upper middle class family have with all this? My sailing skill consists of a year and a half of 15 foot dinghy classes in college. I have nearly zero mechanical, carpentry, plumbing, construction, hunting, fishing, navigational, etc abilities. But what is stopping me from learning and pursuing these things? Ironically, I feel the pressure of lack of funds being one of my main setbacks. And fear, fear of the unknown, fear of failure. Fear is bullshit though, fear is to be conquered. You could die tomorrow, so you might as well live for today.
That's what's been on my mind lately. I really really want to hear YOUR goals, what you plan to do to reach them, what you feel is holding you back.
That's what's been on my mind lately. I really really want to hear YOUR goals, what you plan to do to reach them, what you feel is holding you back.
My general value system is "I want to bring people sort of small h variety happiness - nothing big like saving lives as an EMT, just giving people fun stuff to look at counts - and hopefully become much more comfortable in my own life before it ends."
My biggest goal for the near future is to finish college....again.
My long-term goal is to use that degree to do something I like to do. Maybe I can even make the world a little better in the process, who knows? More realistically, I'd settle for not making it worse.
To stick with some short-term goals inbetween the schlocky self-awareness dump on foreign soil, I want to make my bachelor's thesis the biggest creative challenge I've ever had to face and beat it nonetheless. Another short term goal is helping an afghan friend of mine stay in my country - he's currently facing expulsion and would face death by the taliban upon his return...