What Keeps Me Genuinely Sane?

April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Thoughts

This just popped in my head while listening to someone I really trust and admire talking about his life story. What makes someone really sane in their life? The one thing that I seem to have is that I have huge idealistic goals that would take me a whole lifetime or several lifetimes to accomplish.

So a question I have is that is it necessary for me to have such huge and massive goals to keep me sane?

The reason I am bothered is that many people have smaller goals and aspirations in life. The ones who really seem to get messed up mentally are the ones who reach their goals, but don’t have anything else past that. This seems like a small group too. It is a group that does NOT believe in God or religion, so they don’t have anything to comfort no matter what happens.

This means me wonder. What if I didn’t have such enormous goals? What if my only goal was to become free from a 9 to 5 which I have already done? What would I feel then?

Unfortunately, I think I’d feel quite lost and confused.

So I wonder, is religion or spiritual beliefs necessary to keep the sanity of humanity. I’m really not sure, but this is an amazing concept to me. It could explain why many people are so screwed up despite having everything. Celebrities are one group that come to mind.

Maybe I have replaced meaning with goals?