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What are your goals in life?
JustV
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Doesn't have to be big, just something you want to achieve at some point later in your life.
Thought it might be interesting to see what's important to each of us.
Thought it might be interesting to see what's important to each of us.
The truth resists simplicity.
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Hi @Mike I think this is a very interesting thread.
I think for me I'd say to be happy in life is one of my main life goals.
I wanna be a psychologist. Or maybe not necessarily a psychologist but I wanna be able to help people who are struggling.
I wanna produce some of the songs I write.
I wanna publish the book I've written.
I wanna buy my dad a porsche. I feel like this might sound really stupid and weird and random but my dad has always really wanted one and every since I was little (I think I was 5 or 6) I promised him that I'm gonna be successful enough to have the money to buy him a porsche so I feel like I'm gonna make it a goal to be able to buy one for him one day in the far far future.
I wanna travel the world! I have a whole list of places I wanna visit one day.
I wanna go skydiving (even though it sounds terrifying).
At this point I'm just listing my bucket list which is practically never ending lol so I'm think I'm gonna leave it there!
Finding happiness.
Meeting a lot of nice and caring people who are willing to do all sort of dumb things with me.
Have a ton of cool pets.
Treat my entire family to something nice and take care of them as these are things I am unfortunately unable to do now.
Find some way to help people who are struggling (being a psychologist is a really nice one @Xee )
These are the main ones I can think of for now.
What about you @Mike?
Mine are pretty low key.
I grew up around a lot of financial insecurity so one of my big ones is being financially stable - just enough that it's not a big source of stress in my life.
I've always liked feeling helpful to people so being able to do that means a lot to me. At the end of my life I'd like to say I worked to make the world better in some way.
Didn't have many examples of healthy and meaningful relationships in my early life so it means a lot to me that I have those now, and maintaining them is important to me.
To echo what you guys have said already - being happy. I suppose all of the above goals amount to a kind of happiness for me, but day-to-day that means being able to (within reason) do whatever I'd like to do and spend my time how I'd like to spend it.
I want to be a polyglot one day! I already know English, Japanese and a bit of Tagalog and French, but one day I want to learn Korean, Mandarin, Italian and Greek
I want to travel the world, either alone or with friends.
I want to maintain the healthy relationships I already have with others, emotional trauma from secondary school led me to believe that I was boring and incapable of making friends, but right now I'm super grateful that I have people who I call close friends.
I want to get better at drawing (learning digital art right now which has been so fun!), playing the piano, and singing.
I want to become the idealised version of myself - to be confident, stand up for myself and say 'no' in situations I don't like, appreciate life's beauty and have patience. I know it will take some time, but I'm working on it, slowly but surely!
Thank you for making this thread @Mike
My dream is to be a psychologist just like @Xee !!
I really want to help people to feel as heard and understood as possible and hopefully teach others how to do it too. I reckon a lot of kids would be happier if their parents had some more useful tools on how to support their children through painful situations and mental health struggles and if I can help to make this possible I'd be very happy
(I hope this doesn't sound too bigheaded lmao).
My hope is to live abroad at some point, just for a little bit, to experience a different culture. (No plans to move anytime soon, though).
My hope is that I can do as much good in the world as possible in my time. And to live a happy life and look after my family & friends
I'd like to travel to every continent if possible... would love to go to Antarctica!
@Xee, skydiving is also on my bucket list, alongside a bungee jump and some other random things.
My parents did a parachute jump and my mum always tells the story of how she landed exactly on the X and how everyone rushed over to congratulate her whilst my dad landed in a nearby corn field and had to climb over a fence with his parachute
Exactly - it would definitely feel safer with the instructor in charge!! Have you heard about/tried indoor skydiving? I got a voucher for my birthday and it was fabby
I'd say one of my goals would be to actually learn the guitar, I bought it in the lockdown but haven't learnt to play a thing haha 😅
But also got to agree with being happy with myself and knowing that I'm enough.
I realised I didn't say that I want to properly learn to play the piano one day! Well, I can play it, but I'm horrible lol.
I too have quite a few but I think the main ones are:
- Do something to do with creative writing and mental health, explore writing for therapeutic purposes
- Make my own 140bpm music taking influences from the middle east
- Give up smoking and sugar
- Learn British Sign Language
- Start a fashion brand of gender inclusive body positive kink wear
- Bring out a self help book on heartbreak and a book of short stories of all my nightmares
- Run wellbeing workshops at primary schools and creative writing workshops at festivals