There are three things I want to do with my life is to live it to the fullest, live as morally as possible and make sure that my life isn't typical. I either want to join a Buddhist Sangha or monastery as a nun or be a permaculturist hermit. As a nun I would like to travel to Africa to care for those dying of AIDS and of course attain Nirvana. As a hermit I would be isolated but I would be living in tune with nature and leave the least environmental impact. Which of these would you recommend, the life of influence and humanitarian idealism or escaping and pretending never to have existed? Should I try to combine them? Also, do you think I will regret not having a family?
2006-07-27 20:56:28 · 12 answers · asked by heathen 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Your physical location on this earth and your daily activities will not change the fact that this world is an integral part of you, but may affect your understanding of how you are related to your environment. Your quest will be completed no matter where you are or what you do. It is so easy to build walls around our eyes, but takes a lifetime to tear them down and become a happy small child again.
2006-07-27 22:26:31 · answer #1 · answered by OB 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You will not achieve balance doing what you plan. Believe it or not that will make your life typical, moral, but, typical. This is my advice, search for yourself in others and when you recognize who you are go that direction. One day you may find a person a lot like yourself and that is a good thing. As far as work is concerned, it is a means to an end. If you see yourself in a job do it. It is less likely that you will find that but it happens from time to time. When all is said and done, you will be happy, truly happy, which is a rare life in deed. What's more those around you will probably be better off for having known you. That is rare too.
2006-07-28 04:10:07 · answer #2 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Living in tune with the nature is the true life.
Being at the place where you are - you can do a lot of things.
You need not run away from your present place to do good for others.
Look around there are a lot place where they need your help.
With the right partner - family life is real heavenly one.
But few only find it. You can be that one among the few....
2006-07-28 04:14:28 · answer #3 · answered by latterviews 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were you, I will choose to be a nun, go to Africa (or anywhere) to give a helping hand to life. If possible, someday the world will be brighter, then I could think of my own escaping.
2006-07-28 04:07:40 · answer #4 · answered by buckinfedro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you truly want to be happy, become a Jehovahs Witness, they are great people, they live their lives to the full, are just about as moral as you can get and each one has a very un-typical lifestyle- exactly what you're looking for.
2006-07-28 04:04:55 · answer #5 · answered by hotpinkchik 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh the idealism of youth
my sincere suggestion is--that you take a screen shot of this post and preserve it in a digital file
One day when your fifteen year old son starts talking about going off to Australia to become an implanted aboriginal rapper you can pull this post out on an Adobe 26 and show him on your 12 foot wide screen monitor --what you were going to do at this age
2006-07-28 04:12:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you should do is try a bit of each activity and decide what's best for you. Or, you can try and dedicate yourself to more than one project, that way you get the most of each that you're participating in. Just make sure you show happiness to others and are happy yourself, all while helping them and yourself.
2006-07-28 04:00:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem to rush over the options. There are no deadline, are there? So, take it easy, explore each choices carefully, and may there be guiding lights shine upon you, to pick what's right for yourself.
2006-07-28 07:54:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh - You are a just good soul wished to become more good...
Well - if u reject someting to complete other, then you miss a part of your completion...
Well - it's up to you - o find which woud be beter to yourself.
anyway - i realy appreciate that you wish to spend your life in helping other - but ask yourself - "When shall become time to help yourself ?" and "What did i miss ?"
"Can i do a part of one and part of other thing simultaneusly, without destroying one of them?"
2006-07-28 04:10:56 · answer #9 · answered by Sun Sonic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-07-28 04:11:49 · answer #10 · answered by Bhaari sawaal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋