Just a Spineless Walking Jelly-Fish
What is it that you are looking for in life?
Happiness. And all that comes with that, or actually what comes before that. Being on the path to what I want, but also enjoying that path. That's happiness.
To be going where I want, but also to enjoy the going, even love the going. Now, that makes it seem as if the goal is actually to have a goal. Which might be true. Never attaining my goal, or always outwardly readjusting that goal. Consistent and tantalizing frustration seeming to be the obvious result, but actually fulfillment and incremental joy.
Maybe I'm missing the question because the question is what is "it," which seems to refer to something tangible. But then again, my answer does seem suitable because it's not what I "want in life," but what I'm "looking for." To seek without finding seems almost reassuring. I am perhaps too much for the questing. It is again that Groucho joke -- never being a member of a club that would have me.
But I would argue, no, it's not that I do not wish to attain, but in fact that everything is unattainable, there is no having. So you can only grasp for it, and ultimately you must be satisfied in the grasping. A grip implies a release. A life -- a death. We forever approach infinity and yet and yet. It is still infinity. The very definitions of these traditional noble goals set them away and apart from human capability. We are therefore free from them, if only we'll recognize that.
I am looking in life for love of life.
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Happiness. And all that comes with that, or actually what comes before that. Being on the path to what I want, but also enjoying that path. That's happiness.
To be going where I want, but also to enjoy the going, even love the going. Now, that makes it seem as if the goal is actually to have a goal. Which might be true. Never attaining my goal, or always outwardly readjusting that goal. Consistent and tantalizing frustration seeming to be the obvious result, but actually fulfillment and incremental joy.
Maybe I'm missing the question because the question is what is "it," which seems to refer to something tangible. But then again, my answer does seem suitable because it's not what I "want in life," but what I'm "looking for." To seek without finding seems almost reassuring. I am perhaps too much for the questing. It is again that Groucho joke -- never being a member of a club that would have me.
But I would argue, no, it's not that I do not wish to attain, but in fact that everything is unattainable, there is no having. So you can only grasp for it, and ultimately you must be satisfied in the grasping. A grip implies a release. A life -- a death. We forever approach infinity and yet and yet. It is still infinity. The very definitions of these traditional noble goals set them away and apart from human capability. We are therefore free from them, if only we'll recognize that.
I am looking in life for love of life.
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