DN wrote:

> > Isn't this a situation, though, in which the
> > goalposts constantly move correspondingly
> farther
> > away as you move towards them?


Sawfish Wrote:


> We are miles apart on this one, maybe...
> > For me, it's not how it works. It would work if
> you had a concrete life goal or goals, but if the
> overall goal is something like "...and I want
> everything in my life that's arguably under my
> control to some significant degree to be *better*,
> by my own evaluation, than it is today," you never
> expect to complete your final goal.
>
> You have interim, finite, more precise goals that
> you adopt as you recognize opportunities as they
> arise.
>
> So in a sense, you intentionally move all of your
> goalpost, except for the vague, overriding one,
> which is open-ended.

It had sounded to me like you were saying you were preoccupied with preparing for the future; and, I suppose if one is preoccupied with "control," a word you used, then one would indeed be thinking about the possible exigencies of tomorrow, the possible pleasures of tomorrow, and so on.

Of course "tomorrow" never comes. It's 24 hours away at midnight of a new day, fewer hours at other times, but it's always yet to be. And I don't really know what lies ahead for me. I could have a stroke or get hit by a car or whatever.

Of course I'm not saying "La la la la la la, live for today, and don't worry 'bout tomorrow, hey," like the Sixties song. Prudence is one of the virtues -- as is the courage that may help us if our future turns into a painful present...

Probably we aren't so far apart on this.