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Life Without Goals
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this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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Now that I have a wife, a house, even kids in college.... and see this comment. I had goals, I achieved goals. i have no new goals. Maybe I need new goals. I suppose retirement was/is a goal. I think you can be content without goals. Like, I recently got chickens for my backyard and between the chickens and vegetable gardening, I am content. I enjoy the eggs, the fruit of my labor. But I don't have a "goal" to get 3 pounds of tomatoes, or 4 eggs a day, or anything like that.
But many people have no contentment and no goals. I think you need one or the other or both.
Seems like once you reach your outward goals, the new goal becomes maintenance. You get up in the morning and do what you need to because you're happy with your life and if you don't wake up and do that then your garden will go fallow and your chickens will die.
Until my son was born, I was in a moment like that where I didn't need more, just to keep on track with what I was already doing.
Sometimes as an example in skateboarding I would just ride around and an idea of a trick to try would come up and I would just go try it out and see what happens... in a way you could say it was a "goal", but in another way it wasn't really, but lots of tricks got attempted and naturally one trick led to another without much of an elaborate " goal setting" process