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Your aspirations
Sep. 11th, 2010 11:37 pm( The list )
This is the last one of these. I've liked these prompts--this meme has made me think about a few things I haven't paid attention to in a while. A couple of you guys have been doing it too, and I've been enjoying your responses.
My aspirations... well, my biggest aspiration is to learn about brains. I want to keep getting more knowledgeable on the subject for as long as I'm alive. I don't necessarily aspire to having a Ph.D. or getting a job in neuroscience; I want those things, but they're just tools that will help me learn. The learning is the point.
I aspire to be a better writer, and to be able to write more often. I seem to have writing moods once every couple of weeks, lasting a few hours. If I try to write when I don't feel the urge to, I simply can't produce anything at all. I don't know why these moods happen, and I don't know how to induce them.
I want to produce something of value that will outlast me. A scientific discovery, or an invention, or anything that people hundreds of years from now will know about or maybe use. They don't need to know about me. I don't particularly want to be famous in terms of people knowing my name or my face. But I want to do good things, and I want the results of my actions to be known, or rather to be worth knowing.
I aspire to being better socially connected. Right now, I have a few close friends scattered around the country, and a ton of acquaintances scattered around the world. There are a lot of places I can go and call someone for dinner with my visit as an excuse, but not too many places where I have a substantial number of people I can just hang out with for no reason.
I guess these are mostly things I want to get vaguely better at, rather than solid goals. I don't have a whole lot of concrete goals at this point, really. I'm reasonably happy where I am, and I have a reasonably good idea of where I'm headed from here. I'm okay with that, for now.
This is the last one of these. I've liked these prompts--this meme has made me think about a few things I haven't paid attention to in a while. A couple of you guys have been doing it too, and I've been enjoying your responses.
My aspirations... well, my biggest aspiration is to learn about brains. I want to keep getting more knowledgeable on the subject for as long as I'm alive. I don't necessarily aspire to having a Ph.D. or getting a job in neuroscience; I want those things, but they're just tools that will help me learn. The learning is the point.
I aspire to be a better writer, and to be able to write more often. I seem to have writing moods once every couple of weeks, lasting a few hours. If I try to write when I don't feel the urge to, I simply can't produce anything at all. I don't know why these moods happen, and I don't know how to induce them.
I want to produce something of value that will outlast me. A scientific discovery, or an invention, or anything that people hundreds of years from now will know about or maybe use. They don't need to know about me. I don't particularly want to be famous in terms of people knowing my name or my face. But I want to do good things, and I want the results of my actions to be known, or rather to be worth knowing.
I aspire to being better socially connected. Right now, I have a few close friends scattered around the country, and a ton of acquaintances scattered around the world. There are a lot of places I can go and call someone for dinner with my visit as an excuse, but not too many places where I have a substantial number of people I can just hang out with for no reason.
I guess these are mostly things I want to get vaguely better at, rather than solid goals. I don't have a whole lot of concrete goals at this point, really. I'm reasonably happy where I am, and I have a reasonably good idea of where I'm headed from here. I'm okay with that, for now.
