JOT Day 82 - I like answering questionnaires that have questions worth answering

I like answering questionnaires that have questions worth answering.

"What would you bring with you to a deserted island?" is not a question worth answering.

You don't get to choose what you'd take if you end up on one, so why the question?

Here's one worth asking: "What accomplishments must, in your opinion, occur during your lifetime so that you will consider your life to have been satisfying and well lived--a life of few or no regrets?"

And one worth answering.

You can't do it with favorite television shows or the viral video of the week.

You have to reflect and ponder and decide and discover and realize to answer that question.

And of course all kinds of things will come up for processing, like why am I not doing those things that will sum up to my satisfying life?

I know why.

I know why, and I know how to stop not doing those things.

And I'm learning how to tell you what I know, so you can benefit from that knowledge too.

I promise I will never ask about the desert island.

But I will ask about the well-lived thing.

Because everyone deserves that kind of life.

Everyone.

Especially you.

 

Comments

[blissmonger]

It starts out with what we don't know that we don't know, the side effects of cultural conditioning and the physics of emotion. It gets better from there :-)

[Joyanddisquiet.blogspot.com]

That is an awesome question to ask! And I will most definitely be thinking that one over. Share with us more of what you come to know.