Your aspirations

[jedusor]

Day 01 - Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Your first love
Day 03 – Your parents
Day 04 – Your music
Day 05 – Your definition of love
Day 06 – Your hobbies
Day 07 – Your best friend
Day 08 – A precious item
Day 09 – Your beliefs
Day 10 – An inspiration
Day 11 – Your siblings
Day 12 – What’s in your bag
Day 13 – Your mode of transportation
Day 14 – Where you live
Day 15 – Something you love about yourself
Day 16 – Your first kiss
Day 17 – Your favorite memory
Day 18 – Your favorite birthday
Day 19 – Something you regret
Day 20 – Your morning routine
Day 21 – Your job and/or schooling
Day 22 – Something that upsets you
Day 23 – Something that makes you feel better
Day 24 – Something that makes you cry
Day 25 – Your sleeping habits
Day 26 – Your fears
Day 27 – Your favorite place
Day 28 – Something that you miss
Day 29 – Your favorite foods/drinks
Day 30 – Your aspirations

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.

Comments

[imagines.livejournal.com]

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 like how you worded that. It's the same thing I feel. I'm resigned to, and okay with, the fact that my name and face will in all probability pass out of human memory--as is natural and normal. But I'd like to--in LNT terms--leave the world a better place than I found it.

I am happy you are happy! Contentment with Right Here, Right Now, is an exceptionally pleasant feeling.

(FIVE DAYS)

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Life is actually pretty awesome right now! Like, more awesome than it's been in... basically forever. Money is not a solved problem, but it's becoming a solvable one, and beyond that, there just isn't much going wrong.

(SOON THERE WILL BE HUGS AND SQUEE)

[devjoe.livejournal.com]

Braaaaaaains!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Aw, I've enjoyed these. :)