pinkweasel

decide what to do with my life (read all 5 entries…)
Not a very specific goal 3 years ago

I think I should only have very specific goals that I can messure my progress in. This one isn’t, so I’m going to lament on it alittle bit. By saying I want to decide what I want to do with my life I think I mean as far as where I’ll go to college (after mjc), what I’m going to major in, who I’m going to marry, what kind of person I’m going to be, what my hobbies will be, and most of all, what career I will choose. Wow, that’s alot of stuff. I think I’ll make one entry for each one to keep it as simple as possible.

Jan 11, 2006, 09:28PM PST


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Niel is figuring out if he likes what he's doing.

Detours and delays

Man, I’m amazed at how people try to plan the unplannable. Your life is something you live. It comes to you, you can’t go fetch it. Go to any decent college, study the hardest thing that you enjoy. Meet boys, go out with them. Get a job that will give you some experience. This is the foundation of life.

I’m not saying there won’t be hard decisions to make. But making the decisions is what life is, as much as what you do once you’ve made the decision. There are so many things that can derail the most logical plans. Get to know yourself, and find your strengths and weaknesses. Then you will know what you can do, and what you can’t, and many decisions will be simple.

Have faith. God will be with you every step of the way.

Jan 11, 2006, 09:52PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

pinkweasel

planning

But if you don’t have plans and goals then aren’t you just blindly stumbling through life? I don’t have a clue what I’m going to do with the rest of my life. I’m only 15, these are just goals, just things I want to do. I want to decide where to go to college, what job to get, who to marry, etc- but not right now! Not this month, not this year, probably not even in 5 years. I just like to have things written down, to see my progress. I think life’s really interesting because you never know what’s going to happen. I could look back at this list (not likely) in 10 years, and say, “Oh hey, cool! I’ve done 20 of these things. It’s funny to think that I didn’t know where I was going to go to college then, and I’ve already done it.” You know? I dunno, maybe I think about things too much.

Jan 11, 2006, 11:05PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

Niel is figuring out if he likes what he's doing.

I’m sorry if I was rude. People tell me I don’t think what other people will feel when I write.

A plan is an schedule of action to achieve a goal. This is good.

A goal is a thing that you want to achieve. This is good.

Your planning and goals should be inside yourself. The world changes, and it changes much faster than one thinks. It does not help making blueprints, because they will be outdate by the time you need them.

Going to college, for instance, is a process of finding what you’re good at and enjoy, and then go studying something in that direction. It would be wrong to say “I’m going to college to get a degree in computer science and become a programmer that will work for Microsoft.” By the time you get out of college Microsoft might be bust. They might not be hiring people at the time.

Jan 12, 2006, 03:59PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

pinkweasel

That’s ok. I respect people who say what they think, even if I don’t agree with it. I don’t like sheeple who go along with everyone else. I don’t think I really agree totally with what you’re saying, because I think it’s different for each individual person. For some people over-planning their lives like you talked about would be ridiculous, but for others it might end up working out great.
For me, I plan to go to college to explore some different options to see what my passion really is. Anyway, enough with the philisophical discusion.

Jan 14, 2006, 04:33PM PST | Respond to this


 

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