What Is Doing Something With Your Life?

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  1. MainerMikeBrown

    MainerMikeBrown Regular Member

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    In my family, you're not doing anything with your life unless you have some great career.

    However, I don't quite see it that way. To me, you are doing something with your life if you are doing the best you can with what you have.

    For example, some people have disabilities in which they can't work at a paying job. So instead, maybe they do volunteer work and charity work.

    All a person can do is to do the best they can. And if he or she is doing all they can, then they're doing something with their lives.
     
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    "Success is the progressive realization of some worthy ideal or goal"

    So if you are doing your best then you are successful.
     
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    As long as you can mange find personal fulfillment and joy, you are spending your life wisely. :)
     
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    If you're happy with yourself and enjoying life, you are doing something. Never listen to anyone else about your life. Your life is YOURS and only you can make life choices for yourself.
     
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    I would love to do something with my life but I have a major disability, so I just enjoy life the best that I can.

    Greg
     
  6. PhoenixDown

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    In broad generic terms, most parents will care more about your physical and financial well being than your overall happiness.

    Are you safe? Are you healthy? Can you support yourself financially? Do you have a safe place to sleep at night? Can you care for your family? Are you married yet? When are you having kids? are at the top of list... "is he happy?" usually falls near the bottom.

    And in some ways, many of our parents grew up in tough times. They grew up with parents who went through the great depression or were on one side of WW2 or the other and faced difficult life choices. When you see it from there perspectives, you understand why the happiness question isn't something most parents think about.
     

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