Log #6

The Destination of Life

     In my opinion, life is a journey, and the destination of this journey is the fulfillment of life. Modern people can live for more seventy years. In the long lifespan, we spend twenty years for education, ten years for days after retirement, and the rest years for work. Throughout these life tasks, one thing exists no matter we are conscious or not: the fulfillment of life. What do we live for? What can we accomplish in the lifetime? What will we be regretful for in the end of our life? These questions bother humans since they are aware the fact that the life ends one day. I am no exception.

   I have been exploring the meaning of my life. What will I do in those forty years? Can I become a useful part of the society? Then, I need to figure out what's my dream and what kind of lifestyle I want in the future. When I was young, I wanted to become an extraordinary person, maybe the first female president in Taiwan. It is sad that I couldn't achieve my dream anymore. In my junior high school time, I wanted to become a successful business woman; however, I later found myself uninterested in business or finance. I realized that the dream couldn't be set up based on dreams or parents' hopes and that the dream was what I really want to fulfill in the future in my senior high school. Therefore, I start to find out what kind of life I am passionate for after entering college.

     I think I am a realistic person, and I no longer have dreams like the president dream now. I hope whatever job I do in the future, I can well finish my duty. Besides, due to the fact that there was a car accident happening on me several months ago, so I believe I won't choose any dangerous job. That's all; I don't set up any goal about occupation to achieve. My fulfillment of life doesn't lie in how much I accomplish but in how happy I can be in these decades. It is my dream that I can live safely more than seventy years without financial problems and that I can stay long beside my parents, my lover, my cats, and my children. I hope I can die with a great smile on the face.