Think about it. Once you reach your goal, are you done? I think so.
...done what?
The fun part of Shaw's quote is in the latter qualification:
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
I tend to think that this results-oriented *attainment* of goals is not something that you can expect to achieve. I wonder why so many rich people feel empty and depressed.
To be topical, one might rebut by saying that Olympic athletes who win a gold medal or something have 'attained their ultimate goal' but I would disagree- like a racehorse that wins the Kentucky derby...like the jockey that rode the horse, they live more to compete than to win. Those that don't are the ones who end up having mental issues.
Do you enjoy living? Then if you do then life is really meaningful. Life is filled with choices you have to decide on.
I love this poem by Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5 Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, 10 And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. 15 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and Iâ" I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. 20
I don't know about life. Every time, no matter how hard I try, I wind up getting screwed. My GF- to- be moved to texas, after two years of me not being able to pop the question, my parents hate me, my siblings hate me, I have no friends outside of school or AG. I am really thinking that life isn't meaningful
Estel, what goal do we have? For many of us, there are financial problems that get in the way of our goals.
Yes, there are always going to be obsticles, but a goal is never fun if there are no challenges. A goal like that is not worth the effort. Sometimes, a person's goal, is just to be successful. Sometimes a goal is hidden in between the lines. You have to look deep to really understand what goal you have been trying to accomplish...
Sometimes you might not even know until after you accomplish it....
Is living unmeaningful the moment you have lost your goal or have none?? what is life without a goal? can someone tell me more about this issue or what do you think?
That depends upon how you choose to look at it.
From my perspective, each person is a meaning, purpose, and goal. As long as we are alive, we are constantly reinventing ourselves. Through the very act of living, we continuously create new meanings, purposes, and goals.
