I don’t have goals generally, but I find I tend to pursue wherever my impetus takes me. As I am goalless but I _am_ project oriented, the goals usually present themselves upon completion, and then the “why?” answer retrofits backwards in time, as if everything happened exactly the way it ought to have.
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I’m not goal oriented. I never was. I’m more of an avoider.
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Oh that. Perpetual? Eh, I expect to die. Exponential? I prefer a gentler slope. Eternal? Only in a “whatever pieces of me I leave behind with others as I travel” sense. “My” capabilities? Yeah. Pleasant? Somewhat, although I find unleasantries pleasant sometimes – the experience ‘n all.
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I am 44 now. I expect death between 84-88 yrs, give or take a few years. So, 40-44 years. But consider:
I know everything now.
I know everything I know. I’m already complete now. I’m a different complete now than I was before, and I will be a different complete later.
But I’m not deficient, nor am I incomplete and neither are you.
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I’m done at every moment that has gone before me. I could die now. I’m glad I’m still here.
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At death. When you are done. Unless you get others to pursue it for you as substitutes for you, then your goal is superior to you.
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My current project for self understanding is utilizing the metadata I provided while making Vine for 2.5 yrs. I uploaded 10,000 of them to the Internet archive, and just today improved the subjects by adding their meronyms to find hidden patterns. I found a few. This conversation here is a bit of yarn away from that but I appreciate this distraction here on Facebook smile emoticon
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I’m working on knowing myself better, applying what I know as I go along in whatever situations I find myself in.
So, I suppose my overriding goal is “know thyself”. So in that sense, you are correct. I am goal oriented. Same goal I had at 8, at 11, at 24, at 44. Same goal.
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tongue emoticon Well, anyway, carry on. I wasn’t intending to be mean at all. like emoticon I’m glad you’re on your infinite journey and it was nice meeting up with you at this point in spacetime, on this forum, on this Facebook, and this Internet, from our respective computers.
Its a moment that came and went and won’t come again and I appreciate each exchange I have with others. like emoticon
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“can’t step in the same river twice” and all that.
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