What Goal Are You Really Striving For?
Following on from our examination of what hero do you most admire and what makes a hero we’ll look at what our choice of Hero tells us something about ourselves.
There’s a deeper point underlying who we admire.
Because really our life is all about us. Our experience of life depends upon the story we make to make sense out of the stuff that happens around us. And so we judge others according to our own biases. The people that we admire are a reflection of the beliefs that we hold, as to what qualities are admirable and which are not.
Now the next step is to look at the person or people that you most admire and figure out what qualities and values they encapsulate that you aspire to. What do you see in them that so resonates with you?
Now you’ve warmed your thinking up to prime the flow, we can get more direct.
What is it that you are striving for, or towards, in your life?
What is the end goal that you are reaching for?
What is your path to becoming a Hero?
What will be your heroic achievement?
Here’s some examples;
Einstein wanted ‘to know God’s thoughts’
Joseph Campbell believed it was summed up in the statement of ‘follow your bliss’.
Buddha’s was enlightenment
Martin Luther King strove for equality.
Jesus’s was to save the world from suffering.
Mother Theresa’s was to help people die with dignity.
So what is your life about?
What is it that you really want?
Do you want to achieve something?
Live according to a certain code?
Or something else? Share below.
I don't know if I can answer your newest questions but what I came to about those whom I admire did make me realize that the similar quality in all was honesty. This isn't the kind of honesty that is the opposite of lying but more of an ability to be straight and forthright in the moment (mostly), but also to quit being politically or spiritually correct, to quit having that certain kind of worry that is about people's feelings — not wanting to be mean or even blunt, but just plain truthful. I feel that I'm an honest writer in the main, but I continue to experience a struggle to speak as frankly as I'd like…and of course, that leads to other problems. I'm glad to have discovered this. Thanks.
I go with Mary, but with some other words.
I have strong feelings and admiration for people who handle fair and balanced. 'Fair' is maybe a weak word, but for me it means that you are capable on an 'enlightened way' to handle, advise, talk together and with others.
Fair means that you are able to consider your smallest handling or activity on rightness to others.
Fair means that you are able to weigh all your words, even the 'small ones', in order to tell always the truth. But also in that way that words are no swords.
Fair means that in all you do and think are capable to understand that you are one out of many.
And of course, I have admiration for this as I am far away of this level.
So would you say what we admire in others could be summed up with the idea of being yourself without being swayed by external factors?
Not over-aggressively, pushing yourself out there or shrinking from what needs to be said and done?
It is difficult to express what you feel. And looking up to a hero or admire a person is, of course, a matter of the heart and only later one we can try to explain by mind. Probably, that is the reason for my poor expression-power in this.
So, it is not that we adimre balance only from within. On the contrary: we admire people that can handle the storm within ourself ánd the storm around us. We admire people that keep their focus and their human thinking on difficult circumstances; and difficult circumstances are matters of our own thinking and handling, mostly combined with difficult cirmcustances in the environment.
Do we not all admire the mother, who protects her child, even with danger for her own life, but does this in a silent and almost 'normal and natural' way? We admire because we know she is doing this conscient and awake and knowing all consequences.
Do we not admire the man, who expresses his opinion against all others but does this in a argumented and respectfull way without hurting others but also without loosing ground?
But again, words are words and not feelings …
To answer the first question …..To born and then to die and sometimes in between smile. making others smile is just a bonus. Should we all live like this or ?