Passively Goal Oriented.

People often ask me why I have no goals which are set in stone. I tell them the truth... that I feel no need to have goals. I am looking for happiness in life, and that is all. That's it. Whatever else comes is a by-product which will happen regardless.

Sure, I have things I would like to occur, but I do not set my mind to them. I passively pursue them with as much awareness that they may never occur, as awareness that they will.

Many people have goals they pursue. I am saying that's bad? Not at all! Good on you for having goals set in stone! I just find more pleasure in mulling over the future indifferently and passively then ever saying I'm going to do one certain thing later in life. I live to live, not to search for success, and it is by living to live that I succeed in all of my ventures, and will succeed in all of my ventures to come, regardless of whether I fail or not.

"Our life is like a journey on which, as we advance, the landscape takes a different view from that which it presented at first, and changes again, as we come nearer. This is just what happens--especially with our wishes. We often find something else, nay, something better than what we were looking for; and what we look for, we often find on a very different path from that on which we began a vain search. Instead of finding, as we expected, pleasure, happiness, joy, we get experience, insight, knowledge--a real and permanent blessing, instead of a fleeting and illusory one." -Arthur Schopenhauer.

This quote holds that very truth I have found to be inexpressible when others have been dumbfounded by my lack of conviction to my future. Why does my future need conviction? My present needs conviction. My future will gain that same attention and conviction when it becomes my present, but for now, it is worthless and non-existent. My one and only goal is to live, and live happily. What happens will happen, and what won't, will not. My wishes, my beliefs, my goals, will all come and go over time, and all quite passively and without any fuss or resistance from me. I will do what I want, when I want to do it. That is really all there is too it.

I know that, if I put passion and presence into the present, I will gain passion and presence in my future. I prefer living the process, in which everyday is the first day of the rest of my life.