It's always a good idea to have plans. Taking things one day at a time doesn't mean have no plan. It means take your time working up to your goals. Not just leaving things to chance.
My problem is that when my goals become unattainable, I become crushed, devastated, and hopeless even. I'll feel like a failure typically. This is why I gave up on planning for the future. It's easier for me to just make daily goals, or to focus on the inevitable, than some grand future hope that is not necessarily for my livelihood. It prevents disappointment.
This could be an extension of my nihilism and/or depression of course. I've read that depression is the inability to devise a future for oneself. I dunno if this is objectively true or if it's been proven, but it's the case for me. My solution thus far has been to just leave things to chance and only focus on the readily apparent, thought that may be naive or mistaken. I'm open to a counter perspective if you have one.
Many of us here mourn for the lives we had or the good old days where we weren't how we are now but time stops for no one. Those times were never meant to last. It's a fools path to only seek happiness in life. It leads to complacency and stagnation and no advancement.
Well said. What is it we should seek- oh wise one- to avoid a fools path?
Sometimes I think it might be better to be a clueless air head fumbling through existence. Knowledge and thought feel like a curse. but it's also scary to not have understanding. Idk.
I agree. What's helped me is to accept that we don't know much, and to see that as a sort of spiritual thing. It leads to wonder and for me, a profound respect of the universe, because it's so much grander than us, which means there's so much within it we've yet to discover. Our lack of knowledge leads to much possibility.
Focus on getting money. More options start to appear as you gain more. Freedom is not free as they say.
Money doesn't buy happiness, so they say. To the contrary, studies suggest that people are happier at higher income brackets as income makes health and well-being more accessible and affordable.
Even then, money still has its limitations. There was an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog about an unhappy scientist who was rewarded billions for his unhappy canonball project. When the money failed to make him happy, he refused to agree upon the deal he negotiated with the government and contributed to release his unhappy canons onto the entire town. As he said, "If I can't be happy, no one will!"
Sure, it's a silly cartoon for children. I still find it interesting. However, I was eight when I saw it. That's probably why. Lol
