For me, this past
week's theme has been a
lofty one. It's been, in some way, all about goals, and
I didn't realize that was the concept which tied
everything together. I've talked about Life Goals,
Common Goals in relationships, Mothering Goals, my own
Psychological Goals, and the sharing of common goals
with those around you.
What even IS a
Goal? For some of us, getting a hot cup of coffee in the
morning is a goal in itself. For others, we won't stop
until we see the face of God or whichever divinity we
bow to.
Do our goals change? And, are we even aware when they
change? Do marriages with shared goals really last
longest? Do long term married people discuss their
shared goals and their progress along the way? Do they
build checks and balances to ensure they are still on
the same path? Is ignoring a small difference in goals a
certain cause for potential failure, or does nature
build in a system of corrections, like poorly copied
nucleotides in the DNA repair process? Did you even know
such a system exists? It indeed does, our own DNA can
repair errors while encoding proteins for our survival.
Is there a reason we have to keep re-learning things?
It's like we keep re-learning
things new a new lens.
My Goal is now to ensure that she does not have
to be RE-learning at 51, things she learned this week at
14.
There's got to be more.
