In middle school the teacher assigned us a project to ask one of our parents their goals in life. I asked my father. I expected financial goals, perhaps career goals (he was a major in the USArmy at the time), travel goals (of course we had seen much more of the world than most but their was always someplace left to see), mini goals (like run a 10k or read every book in a library etc). The answer I got was a simple “I want to go to Heaven”. After trying to question him more for other areas, he simply said, “I want to go to Heaven. That is my ultimate goal in this life. All the rest are trivial comparatively”. That conversation changed my life forever.