A Simple Realization
By Daniel Miessler on May 31st, 2007: Tagged as Musings | Personal | Philosophy
I figured something out just now. When I experience something that provokes my interest or pulls at my emotions, all I can think of is calling a friend to talk about it. I want to appreciate these things with someone. From that I realized that my overall goal was simple:
All I want in life is to have amazing experiences with great people.
All that remains is to define “amazing experiences”. The short answer, I suppose, is that of exploring the world and discovering things. That’s on the intellectual side. On the primal side I suppose it equates to tapping into as many rewarding emotions as possible without being dangerous to others.If you only had two paragraphs, what would your life’s goal be?
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Do no harm. Leave the world better than the way you found it. Respect others. Do an honest day’s work for a day’s wages. Learn and help others learn.
Of course each of these could be fleshed out into far more than two paragraphs — each could be fleshed out into a series of books. Heading in the other direction, each of them is subsumed by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you (though the golden rule doesn’t work so well for those with little or no concern for their own comfort and well-being).
Comment by Carl M — 5/31/2007 @ 12:50 pm
“Change the way other perceive and engage with reality. Improve upon and ultimately expand my mental horizons.”
Comment by Sebastiaan de WIth — 5/31/2007 @ 1:20 pm
“To experience all things possible within the realms of human capabilities”
“To exceed that which is human without sacrificing that which individual”
Comment by Michael S Black — 6/1/2007 @ 9:24 am