Posted by: Violet7 September 17, 2011
What do you want out of life, really?
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Great answers. Now I will ask even more questions. :-)

@Busenitz. How do you define happinese and do you think you are a happy person? I don't think I am a happy person every single day of my life. For me, most of my happiness are those fleeting moments that are just there for a while. I don't think I am a satisfied person either because I never live in the moment, I always think about either the past or worry the future. I think I should starting learning how to be content with what I have in life.

@Grgdai. When you wrote "Mental satisfaction is achieved when you don't want anything and accept what comes to you.", it remined me of something I learnt in literature about Buddhism. It said that we shouldn't have desires and we should be as detached as possible because the universe is just an illusion and nothing is real. But grgdai, if you don't have any desires and if you don't want anything, how do you go about doing the things you do in life, like how did you decide the career that you are in. What I am trying to say is what motivates you if you don't want anything in life?

@Free_nirvana. So how do you make the best out of your life and did you become the person that you wanted to be when you were in 5th grade? I don't remember what I wanted to be in 5th grade. I didn't really have real ambitions back then because I didn't know what they actually did. Right now, I study accounting. Am I passionate about it? Oh hell no but I know it is gonna pay the bills. Well, to be honest, I am at a point now where I don't wanna a career in accounting. Let's just say my life usually doesn't go as planned. LOL

@thapar20. Yap, we do work to feed our stomach. From your other postings, I know that you are a future nurse. A nurse was what my parents wanted me to be but I drifted. It is a great field but just not for me. Hope you get a job soon.

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