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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI want to live my life in such a way as to not just be another useless asshole...
Anybody feel where I'm coming from?
nolabear
(41,987 posts)I do know what it means to want to do something that has a sense of importance and meaning, to feel as if it matters that you were here. And I'm fairly okay with my life so far. I've done some good and I still hope to do some more. And I have a couple of sons, which is remarkably like having another chance.
Anything in particular you want to do?
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Came across this recently and it became my mantra: Find where you matter.
JVS
(61,935 posts)LumosMaxima
(585 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)It is your life and you can do whatever you choose to do with it.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Happy or contented at least, and comfortable in my own skin.
Not sure I'll ever reach this goal.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)But either one is pretty subjective, so...
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)When you're happy, you enrich other's lives, as well. You have no idea what a simple smile can do for someone that needs it...even a stranger you pass on the street.
Being kind, compassionate and happy are gifts to the world.
So, get out there and be special.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)I don't want to exploit, coerce or consume one ounce more than I need to survive. I try to be as mindful as possible.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)For some of us that comes naturally.
rug
(82,333 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Would that be acceptable?
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)unless you're a repuke.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)Trying to be a blessing/bright spot in life is a righteous/worthy goal. You never know how just one kind word from you can change a person's day or life.
A spring in your step, smile on your face, a kind word, and a song in your heart.
It's not always easy.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)I can manage the third, and maybe the second. Better than nothing.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)Even just a kind word and addressing someone by their name on their name tag... it really is the little things on most days. You just never know. It's as easy to make someone's day as it is to break it.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Walking along the road to Ch'i, the master carpenter Shih stopped beside an old oak, spreading its branches everywhere
Shih looked at it and thought, What a useless tree! The branches are too gnarled for rafters; the grain is coarse and would split wherever touched by a tool; one can't build with it because the trunk is full of knots. Nothing good can be done with it!
Chi fell asleep in the shade there, and the tree appeared in his dream: Had I been a fruit tree, I would have been torn apart every spring, with my limbs broken off. Had I grown straight and tall, I would have been hacked into boards long ago. But for a long time now, I have been striving to be useless. And since I am not useful to others, no one makes my life miserable: birds come sing in my branches; meeting the clouds and rain, I can enjoy whatever years are given to me