I have a truly remarkable friend whom I ran into at lunch today. We dined together. He was talking about his and his wife's year-in-review/future forecasting that is common this time of year. He told me, "Giddyup, I'm a pretty simple guy. Here's what I told my wife... #1 I want to please the Lord #2 I want to love and support my wife #3 I want to love and provide for my kids #4 I want to do whatever I can for my friends and neighbors This truly humble man looked up and said, "I don't really know if that's much of a list but that's what my heart tells me..." I said, "Dave, are you kidding? That's an incredible list. It's probably longer than most people's list and nothing on it is about you. That is awesome." He kind of smiled sheepishly and said, "Well, I guess I never thought about it like that. Anyway, a verse has been pressed on my heart. It tells me that the new covenant is summed up by two things: loving the Lord God and loving your neighbor." What is your mission/purpose in life? For those of you tempted to be sarcastic or condescending, please notice that I placed this in The Hangout. Please just move on if you don't have something constructive to add. Thanks.
I don't really think life has a definitive purpose/mission. But I certainly understand the idea of having goals, being a responsible, effective citizen of the planet, etc. It all comes down to respect...have respect for everything in life.
M-hmm. Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. And, finally, here are some completely gratuitous pictures of penises to annoy the censors and to hopefully spark some sort of controversy, which, it seems, is the only way, these days, to get the jaded, video-sated public off their ****ing arses and back in the sodding cinema. Family entertainment? Bollocks. What they want is filth: people doing things to each other with chainsaws during tupperware parties, babysitters being stabbed with knitting needles by gay presidential candidates, vigilante groups strangling chickens, armed bands of theatre critics exterminating mutant goats. Where's the fun in pictures? Oh, well, there we are. Here's the theme music. Goodnight
I think my mission is to teach people. Not like a professor but a guide. It is not the spoon that bends...
I might be stupid but that's from a movie, right? I remember because someone used that same line to me before on this board. Was that you? I forgot.
I need more tangible results. 1. Convince everyone that if they allowed me to change the suns direction we could explore the galaxy and other solar systems in our lifetime. Then do it. 2. Prove that the matter on the other side of a blackhole is replicating. 3. Develop one formula that explains the whole universe without using additional dimensions as some excuse for it's plausibility. 4. Get death to extinguish itself. Immortality. 5. Prove that the Truth not only exists, but that it was born in Washington DC , and is guarded by a lie. 6. One Government for the whole world. One Leader. 7. Figure out why Pangea, or what came before it. 8. Prove that there is no such thing as instinct. 9. Comunicate with a cat verbally. 10. Invent a way to fly without technology. 11. Invent a new way to go underwater without scuba gear. 12. Prove that 1+1 does not equal 2.
I don't get much sleep, but since we are vulnerable to predators when we sleep, I thinks it's an evolutionary defect, and we need to find away around that before its bites us in the ass. Make that number 11.
I want to treat people the way they would want to be treated. I want to keep improving my writing and acting craft until I can produce work of lasting value. I want to make everyone who's life I touch better for having met me, or at worst leave them no worse than before I met them.
To have a life worth telling stories about. To make an impact. To do what I want to do when I want to do. And for my "wants" to be good things. To make others realize how precious the decisions in there lives are. I want to know there is a God, not just a creator. I mean...I know...but i want to know personally. And with this knowledge I want good to flow from me.
To live my life moment by moment, enjoying it for what it is instead of worrying about what it isn't. To sit down somewhere with a great cup of coffee and watch the world go by.
