It's a very interesting existential question that I always ask myself every day. I've always thought that there's no point in living if you don't have a goal to reach, whatever the scale, because it allows you to become a more fulfilled person than you were before. Obviously, this is just my point of view, but I'd love to hear yours too if you have any.


For example, I have a lot of goals I'd like to achieve in almost every possible field like music, artistic, video games, job, relationships, etc., but what I would like most is to definitively move to an English-speaking country (like Australia or Canada) while remaining financially comfortable to be able to stay there. It's something that I thought when I started learning English because it's such an easy language to learn, and also because I really enjoy discovering new horizons! It may happen one day, or never, but it's something I would like to accomplish.



Feel free to discuss your worries if you feel like you have nothing to accomplish.

Main goal, of course, is to be happy.
The path doesnt really matter. Well, there's a small problem, I have no idea what could make me happy.
But goal for today is to be better than yesterday, at least a bit.
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And question for you, what will change from moving? Same life, but different place

Realistically : Finish University, find ACTUAL internship (not unpaid or worse, you're paying for the exchange of their 'training'), find a secure and well-paid job, and accumulate wealth so I don't live paycheck-to-paycheck, perhaps emigrate someday

Ideally : I live to create and design something. I enjoy drawing, painting, writing stuff, making design, anything about art and design. I want to travel and experience many culture around the world until my end of time

Dying.

finish the job

Everyone main goal in life is to stay alive, of course.

Honestly? Stability. My life feels like a stock market graph. There are days when I feel on top of the world and then the next day I'm depressed. I wouldn't even mind if my life was more or less bad, as long as it STAYED that way. Every time something good happens to me I can't help but think "How long will this last?" and I'm sick of it. I always get false hope that things are improving, just to be back to sulking next week. It's been driving me nuts.

Some sense of financial freedom. If I could retire super early and focus on enjoying life and taking on challenges I'd actually care about I think I'd be on some sort of perma-contentness

make a banger family

Make happy memories and have meaningful conexions with people

Being able to get a full day of sleep.

Living. I realized that fantasizing about finding happiness or satisfaction in goals way off in the future isn't making me happy or satisfied in the present. I used to keep thinking to myself that "If I reliably earn $X, I'll finally be happy" and that made me not appreciate the things that I currently have.

Sure, it's good to have goals since it is a powerful way to motivate yourself to achieve success, but if you make it your priority in life, then that's just setting yourself up for failure. What happens if you don't manage to reach your goals? Would that mean you're just gonna be miserable for the rest of your life? And even if you did reach them, you'll likely continue to set the goalpost further and further until your happiness is out of reach.

That's why instead of thinking about goals as goals, I think about them as wants. I want to work on my grades for college; I want to continue going to the gym; I want to improve my social skills. That way you won't feel as obligated to do them or be as bummed out when they fail. It's purely your desire and willpower that enables you to do something great.

Stomiks wrote:

Living. I realized that fantasizing about finding happiness or satisfaction in goals way off in the future isn't making me happy or satisfied in the present. I used to keep thinking to myself that "If I reliably earn $X, I'll finally be happy" and that made me not appreciate the things that I currently have.

Sure, it's good to have goals since it is a powerful way to motivate yourself to achieve success, but if you make it your priority in life, then that's just setting yourself up for failure. What happens if you don't manage to reach your goals? Would that mean you're just gonna be miserable for the rest of your life? And even if you did reach them, you'll likely continue to set the goalpost further and further until your happiness is out of reach.

That's why instead of thinking about goals as goals, I think about them as wants. I want to work on my grades for college; I want to continue going to the gym; I want to improve my social skills. That way you won't feel as obligated to do them or be as bummed out when they fail. It's purely your desire and willpower that enables you to do something great.

Yoo Stomiks back, w

As for my goal in life, it is to die. But not in any way, I want to die knowing that I had a positive impact on this world (hopefully) and that's about it

After all every person's goal (i think) is to die with some sort of an impact on the world, the footprints of their life being remembered after they had been long gone

Oh, and also get a hell lot of money

To be content with my life and to make as many memories with my friends and family as I can.

To get back to a semi normal life where I work at least part time, have a place my wife and I can call our own, am not in pain every day from my fibromyalgia, have an arcade machine, and I'm more mentally stable.

Three goals actually
1. To create something that would impress me
2. Share that marvel with someone who I care about
3. Never stop learning

#1 is very hard because I see all things I do as mundane. Even things that others would find impressive. There are things I do now the younger me would find impressive that I don't find impressive now. I'm sure there things in the future I would do that I'd find impressive now but not then.

#2 Would basically need to be my soulmate. Maybe they are there somewhere, whoever they are. Maybe they are not. I like to hope the future will have a way of solving this problem.

#3 The moment I stop doing this I am practically dead, so yea.

(vaguely) great success

Beat mrekk

having good work-life balance in the future tbh

To blow up and act like i don know nobodyyyy

I just want to feel like I can take care of myself without giving up on the things I want to do.

some stuff that has to do with climbing (hard stuff to explain)

and I guess I want to be loved (idc that it sounds stupid)

more sleep

4 choice

Option A: Became A President

Option B: Became a Businessman

Option C: Became a Artist

Option D: Became a Band Vocalist/Singer, Metal/Rock

Or

I failed all 4 ( Thats an alternate universe )

AxisPraxisMDS wrote:

4 choice

Option A: Became A President

Option B: Became a Businessman

Option C: Became a Artist

Option D: Became a Band Vocalist/Singer, Metal/Rock

Or

I failed all 4 ( Thats an alternate universe )

very ambitious I see

there are things I want to do/achieve/create and I would say they are all realistic in that I could actually make it happen with some effort. but "in life" I have no long term plans and everything is very aimless, I'm not a critical part of anything really, there's nobody that depends on me in any kind of serious way. I feel like I'm just here and trying my best to make myself comfortable in lieu of having any real purpose or goal, most of the time this is fine, sometimes it's depressing. kind of embarrassing to write out but the only time I was really excited for my future was with my last partner, and the way that relationship fell apart still has a big impact on me even though it's been like 3 years now...

stay alive?(?)

Polyspora wrote:

stay alive?(?)

Ah Ah Ah Ah...

a: get a Mitsubishi EVO IX and build it to make it over 700hp
b: be a cool ass grafitti vandal cus i like comiting crimes and street art :3
c: meeting the online homies because theyre the realest homies on gang
d: getting a ULTRAKILL WR
e: MEETING JESUS

Noreu wrote:

a: get a Mitsubishi EVO IX and build it to make it over 700hp
b: be a cool ass grafitti vandal cus i like comiting crimes and street art :3
c: meeting the online homies because theyre the realest homies on gang
d: getting a ULTRAKILL WR
e: MEETING JESUS

This is your ticket to OT, welcome.

Karmine wrote:

Noreu wrote:

a: get a Mitsubishi EVO IX and build it to make it over 700hp
b: be a cool ass grafitti vandal cus i like comiting crimes and street art :3
c: meeting the online homies because theyre the realest homies on gang
d: getting a ULTRAKILL WR
e: MEETING JESUS

This is your ticket to OT, welcome.

tf was OT- i forgor-

not to take life too seriously ... though i understand the philosophy that every minute lived has to be worthy and to the fullest sometimes you just gotta lay in bed comfy knowing you're not gonna fall back asleep for the heck of it
it can be stressful thinking about when and how i'm gonna die and what i absolutely have to do before then so i guess my goal is to have no long term goals xd

world domination

realize, on a visceral level beyond intellectual knowledge, that no second of the infinite boon of life is owed to me, and that neither the atoms which comprise my body or the breath breathed into my soul is mine.

get good at osu

Rezq Gokou wrote:

world domination

TETO FOR WORLD PRESIDENT

Rezq Gokou wrote:

world domination

DIDNT KNEW TETO WAS COOL LIKE THAT TFFFFFFF

Having a top play that is 200+ pp

b4ris_old wrote:

Having a top play that is 200+ pp

That's sad.
Also wtf account from 2020 with _old!

My main goal it's become someone who I can be proud of, and that's, for me, it's being the king of all man. Hyper-ambitious because that means to reach MAX. stadistics in all areas, but I've time and space to do it, little by little. What do u think?

And about the "Being happy" goal, I think maybe that's a non-much-thinked goal, in life we need other feelings negative-kind, like sadness or boredom, if we wanna a healthy lifestyle and learn to appreciate various aspects of it.

Thanks in advance for reading me, it's my first post in forums, and I'm practicing my english heheheh

My main goal in life is becoming the best brazilian osu! player

Not really a goal -- and am not good at expressing in correct language usage --, but i'm trying to find a few ones who i can feel closely related to and have very closely similar interests and someone where i can feel like i fit in. that's what made me interest about spending time on internet (visiting silly sites and watching cute and amazing artworks/music (some music on osu! is amazing)) and thinking about making works like art and stuff to share with other and express myself.

some rambling:
my other goal is to not destablize my life and being able to sustain myself throughout life.

clayton wrote:

there are things I want to do/achieve/create and I would say they are all realistic in that I could actually make it happen with some effort. but "in life" I have no long term plans and everything is very aimless, I'm not a critical part of anything really, there's nobody that depends on me in any kind of serious way. I feel like I'm just here and trying my best to make myself comfortable in lieu of having any real purpose or goal, most of the time this is fine, sometimes it's depressing. kind of embarrassing to write out but the only time I was really excited for my future was with my last partner, and the way that relationship fell apart still has a big impact on me even though it's been like 3 years now...

i agree life is unpredictable and i feel about the doing/achieving/creating too! sorry to hear about what happened with the relation ...

i dont know yet... i dont know if i really want anything anymore if im not "me"

i love art/music and human creativity so much, or... a least i think i do

i always wanted to make a very particular project, but... its entirely imaginary, and i dont even know what exactly its supposed to be... i just "know" and "see" a world there where "i" would be

but thats not me, i made those characters as other people, but i cant help but make the protagonist some mixture of me and not-me... a life i couldnt live when ive already been born as someone else

none of my characters feel real enough

my imaginary world isnt real enough, i dont even know whats in it

and everything else, everywhere else, its all so empty

why cant i let go...? why wont i let that dream die when it could never have been real, when that reality exists entirely in my own imagination...?

i dont know how to live real life, i dont know how to want to live as this person i already was born with and grown to be, i dont know how to want anything like this...

i realize once again that this was a particular dilemma i had for almost half of my life. i narrativize my selfhood through fiction and imagination because i cant seem to will myself through a real life i didnt want and cant see a destination for

what is my goal, when i cant see how there could ever be a destination to go to? that destination is totally imaginary for a fictional self i could never be, with feelings i cant feel with this brain/body, with sensations i cant sense, thoughts i cant organically think, memories that arent my real ones, dreams that i cant pursue because theyre from someone i cant have been from the very beginning, parents and relatives and friends i never could have

the life i want is found in fiction itself, a fiction i want to cultivate

and in that way, my goal in real life is to serve my fictional life, like planting trees i will never live to see, like creating a reality i will never be able to experience

an exercise in futility

and the interesting thing is, im lying, im not actually describing the details of what i want, and i seem to refuse to, because why would it matter if it was never possible and if describing it would only hurt me and make me paranoid and increasingly deluded

what havent i heard from people when they interrogate and question each other? whats something i dont already internalize and fear and loathe? its not even directed at me but i absorb it like im there

i dont want to tell anyone anything, i dont want to be asked questions, but i do, but i dont. i want to be vulnerable, but i dont want to be vulnerable to you or anyone else that isnt already like me. the more i say, the more i sabotage myself, the more i fear...

but i dont have anywhere else

...

ultimately,

my goal in life is to watch

thats all

if i cant be me, then i will watch people be themselves or watch them die trying

i will watch them live, i will live vicariously through them, i will "see" what they see and "feel" what they feel, even though i dont see or feel the real thing

if i cant make the imaginary become real, i will watch reality through the images you take from your perspecitves, even when i dont actually see anything at all, even when im not at all accurate about what i think im seeing

i drink you in

and drown in the empty deluge of imagination

b4ris_old wrote:

Having a top play that is 200+ pp

Keep it up. From what I remember, you seem to be improving a lot faster than I did. Aim for improving your consistency (profile acc around 96-97%), should help you achieve this

My goal is honestly social acceptance. Making friends can be tricky when you have the ‘tism :/

Another goal is to probably get good at piano!

catzlucky wrote:

some rambling:

i know it's a difficult task to find someone with closely similar interests. hopefully this is a happy way to find a really good friend cuz me can't seem to find ones irl, finding is even more difficult.. feeling i can't fully relate fit in either online or irl, like humor and stuff

re: cat lucky:

I AM VERY SMART wrote:

It's a very interesting existential question that I always ask myself every day. I've always thought that there's no point in living if you don't have a goal to reach, whatever the scale, because it allows you to become a more fulfilled person than you were before. Obviously, this is just my point of view, but I'd love to hear yours too if you have any.


For example, I have a lot of goals I'd like to achieve in almost every possible field like music, artistic, video games, job, relationships, etc., but what I would like most is to definitively move to an English-speaking country (like Australia or Canada) while remaining financially comfortable to be able to stay there. It's something that I thought when I started learning English because it's such an easy language to learn, and also because I really enjoy discovering new horizons! It may happen one day, or never, but it's something I would like to accomplish.



Feel free to discuss your worries if you feel like you have nothing to accomplish.

I see most of the replies which talk about a physical gain in this world (job, being artist, being popular, or finishing the universe or anything related to this life specefically) can be translated as "goal of living".

but as a more deep answer we have to go to the religion, because life ends so whatever your goal is, your journey will end and there is no point in a sense so I will say my goals in my religion which includes the life with the hereafter:
We are human-beings created to be an authority in this earth, and have a mind to use it for choosing between good and bad (align with the law of God), having abilities in this world from plants and animals and materials etc, worshiping the God, and spreading justice, and having reproduction, and at the end we have the reward or the punishment.

would like to stay "alive" but clicking circles isn't that bad either.

be able to live comfortably while doing what i like to do sounds nice

Guess survive and find a purpose still

[-Omni-] wrote:

be able to live comfortably while doing what i like to do sounds nice

this <3

My main goal is to make something people enjoy, like music, maybe animations, and possibly even apps/programs.

lostsilver wrote:

[-Omni-] wrote:

be able to live comfortably while doing what i like to do sounds nice

this <3

oh and dont forget the doing something good for thr world part :3c

sametdze wrote:

finish the job

i still need to finish the job..

feel alive

[-Omni-] wrote:

lostsilver wrote:

[-Omni-] wrote:

be able to live comfortably while doing what i like to do sounds nice

this <3

oh and dont forget the doing something good for thr world part :3c

yes!!! :3