So, i was watching Scrubs just now, 5x03, where J.D. as turning 30 and was freaking out because he had not accomplished any life goals.
It made me start to think that, although Im reasonably happy with my life so far, i never really ever set any life goals.
I mean, Ive bought a house, i moved to a foreign country (Canada, for about a year), visited half of the states and a third of Canada, won a full scholarship to DeVry (and quit after a year since it was a shit school), am attempting to learn a foreign language (Russian), and am trying to pick up blacksmithing, i never really put it into my head that there are certain things that i want to do.
For most of the things that i accomplished, I just kind of decided, or an opportunity presented itself and i took it. So, i have come up with a short list of things to do before i am thirty 1,949 days from tomorrow until the 30th anniversary of my birth. just a bit over 5 years.
1) Finish learning Russian, at least to conversational level
2) Pay off my house
3) Buy a motorcycle and take a tour out west
4) Visit Russia
Thats all i have so far, if I can accomplish 3 out of 4 i would consider it a success.
Maybe i never set goals because that meant that i actually had to try, and most of the time, i never had to try at anything to succeed.
I was a 3.6 student in high school, i could have been 4.0 but i never studied a day in my life, never liked authority, never liked the status quo. I would make things difficult on purpose, but they put up with it because i was/am smarter than average. All i had to do was write a stupid little essay and get a 32 on my ACTs to get that scholarship. The school that it was for was ran more like a business than an institution of learning, so i left and went to Canada.
Ever since then, i have barely tried to succeed at anything at all in my life, I rely upon my natural intelligence and caginess to get me through, it could just be that i do not see the point, we all will die some day and no matter how hard one tried, they are just going to get fucked over by someone in the end anyways.
I did put forth some effort when i bought this house and remodeled it. Actually, that is one of the few things that i have ever done, work-wise, that i ever truly enjoyed, maybe it was because it was for me, or maybe it was because i was able to take some pride in the I completely transformed an old shit house into something pretty nice, and its not over.
I think that, as i age, i am starting to want to put some effort into things, maybe not so much work, but things that make me happy, like learning new things and trying new things; things that make me grow as a person, that would be a good start.
It made me start to think that, although Im reasonably happy with my life so far, i never really ever set any life goals.
I mean, Ive bought a house, i moved to a foreign country (Canada, for about a year), visited half of the states and a third of Canada, won a full scholarship to DeVry (and quit after a year since it was a shit school), am attempting to learn a foreign language (Russian), and am trying to pick up blacksmithing, i never really put it into my head that there are certain things that i want to do.
For most of the things that i accomplished, I just kind of decided, or an opportunity presented itself and i took it. So, i have come up with a short list of things to do before i am thirty 1,949 days from tomorrow until the 30th anniversary of my birth. just a bit over 5 years.
1) Finish learning Russian, at least to conversational level
2) Pay off my house
3) Buy a motorcycle and take a tour out west
4) Visit Russia
Thats all i have so far, if I can accomplish 3 out of 4 i would consider it a success.
Maybe i never set goals because that meant that i actually had to try, and most of the time, i never had to try at anything to succeed.
I was a 3.6 student in high school, i could have been 4.0 but i never studied a day in my life, never liked authority, never liked the status quo. I would make things difficult on purpose, but they put up with it because i was/am smarter than average. All i had to do was write a stupid little essay and get a 32 on my ACTs to get that scholarship. The school that it was for was ran more like a business than an institution of learning, so i left and went to Canada.
Ever since then, i have barely tried to succeed at anything at all in my life, I rely upon my natural intelligence and caginess to get me through, it could just be that i do not see the point, we all will die some day and no matter how hard one tried, they are just going to get fucked over by someone in the end anyways.
I did put forth some effort when i bought this house and remodeled it. Actually, that is one of the few things that i have ever done, work-wise, that i ever truly enjoyed, maybe it was because it was for me, or maybe it was because i was able to take some pride in the I completely transformed an old shit house into something pretty nice, and its not over.
I think that, as i age, i am starting to want to put some effort into things, maybe not so much work, but things that make me happy, like learning new things and trying new things; things that make me grow as a person, that would be a good start.