by lil

I was preparing a workshop about goalsetting (the dark side) and how difficult and confusing it can be for women in particular, but probably for everybody, when wrenauld wrote me disparagingly about goals or paths, saying this:

"People frame life in terms of "being on a path" in order to establish order where there probably isn't much - and to maintain focus and discipline when their lives, insecurities, and emotions, beckon them towards other pursuits."

I responded with,

"Yes, perhaps they do - but it sounds like a good idea, eh?"

I'd like to know what the Hubskiverse demographic thinks about that. Do you see yourself as being on a path, or do you see the "path" as a distraction from the immediacy and spontaneity of life itself? That is, you might be in school right now or in a job, but it's not a path so much as what you are doing: the journey being the important thing - the destination simply makes a journey possible.