I don't have goals generally, but I find I tend to pursue
wherever my impetus takes me. As I am goalless but I _am_
project oriented, the goals usually present themselves upon
completion, and then the "why?" answer retrofits backwards in
time, as if everything happened exactly the way it ought to
have. == I'm not goal oriented. I never was. I'm more of an
avoider. == Oh that. Perpetual? Eh, I expect to die.
Exponential? I prefer a gentler slope. Eternal? Only in a
"whatever pieces of me I leave behind with others as I travel"
sense. "My" capabilities? Yeah. Pleasant? Somewhat, although I
find unleasantries pleasant sometimes - the experience 'n all.
== I am 44 now. I expect death between 84-88 yrs, give or take a
few years. So, 40-44 years. But consider: I know everything now.
I know everything I know. I'm already complete now. I'm a
different complete now than I was before, and I will be a
different complete later. But I'm not deficient, nor am I
incomplete and neither are you. == I'm done at every moment that
has gone before me. I could die now. I'm glad I'm still here. ==
At death. When you are done. Unless you get others to pursue it
for you as substitutes for you, then your goal is superior to
you. == My current project for self understanding is utilizing
the metadata I provided while making Vine for 2.5 yrs. I
uploaded 10,000 of them to the Internet archive, and just today
improved the subjects by adding their meronyms to find hidden
patterns. I found a few. This conversation here is a bit of yarn
away from that but I appreciate this distraction here on
Facebook smile emoticon == I'm working on knowing myself better,
applying what I know as I go along in whatever situations I find
myself in. So, I suppose my overriding goal is "know thyself".
So in that sense, you are correct. I am goal oriented. Same goal
I had at 8, at 11, at 24, at 44. Same goal. == tongue emoticon
Well, anyway, carry on. I wasn't intending to be mean at all.
like emoticon I'm glad you're on your infinite journey and it
was nice meeting up with you at this point in spacetime, on this
forum, on this Facebook, and this Internet, from our respective
computers. Its a moment that came and went and won't come again
and I appreciate each exchange I have with others. like emoticon
== "can't step in the same river twice" and all that. ==
