
Originally Posted by
akula
my goals
1. to stay alive, stay away from drugs, drink, crime and STDs
2. to not screw up my family and alienate friends by my ambition
3. to not be depressed, achieved by staying away from highly accomplished people who make everyone else look bad
3. to make a little bit of money for the purpose of accomplishing points 1 and 2
i think that ambition is a double edge sword and one of my goals is to not get cut by this innately western concept of promoting unfettered desire for achievement and consumption
i mean, I have a whole bunch of goals (like signing up 10 customers in november) but am I gonna feel like my life's been wasted if I don't achieve these things? No I'm not. But then what's the point of having these goals if they're (ultimately) not important? Isn't achieving these goals supposed to be my life? That's the kind of absurd thinking that goal setting leads to.
I'm sure that in your mind you'll be a better person if you make it on oprah, but for my money, I'm not gonna put value on human life and I'll leave it up to god and fascist dictators to rank and rate people. for me, you're important just the way you are
there's more to life than working for standing ovations