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Making Goals
Published: 2011-10-24 16:30:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 22459; Favourites: 1383; Downloads: 462
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Hey friends, this is a comics essay I wrote for a blog I do called Doodle Alley. Wherever you are on your journey as a creator, I hope these comics encourage you! If you like this and want to see more, please favorite this!This comic ends a bit abruptly, but that's because there's a part two! Click here to read it:
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Here's a link to the Doodle Alley blog:
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This is a motivating comic, and very true, great work!
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I needed this today, thank you.
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Great work, dude. Knowing what ur goals really are, is indeed half of the battle win, but its a hell of a good start in what u're doing. It gives u motivation and strenght to follow this long road of become someone and something. And no matter how bad things get, this knowledge , forced you to keep on going.
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This is fantastic! I'm gonna share this with my team @ work! Thank you!
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having goals in life will only restrict you, let life take you where it wants
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you say that like not having any goals is freedom. I think the opposite is true. Knowledge and experience is freedom. It solidifies your identity. not that you necessarily need an identity to be happy. but waiting for life to take you where it wants creates in own set of restrictions. you might find yourself with too many options and regretting the path you choose, or regretting the path not chosen, or you may not take any path and sit idly (which can also be regrettable). And thats assuming any opportunity presents itself at all. And then you are never really certain want you really want or who you really are. If no opportunities ever really present themselves, then it seems kinda sad to me that one would simply accept what life has handed them. and its not a matter of humility, its a matter of either passively letting life go by or embracing life, becoming good friends with life and exchanging benefits. They call that a mature relationship.
its subjective.
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You've taken the wrong thing out of what I said, I never want to just sit at home my whole life and wait for something to happen, I want to go and do things but I don't care what. I don't want to sit and plan things, like, I'm going to live in this city for five more years and save up enough money to move into a house in the city next to this and live in this boring place my whole life
I want to just work where I can and not decide to be anywhere, to just keep moving without a plan. I don't want a boring, horrible life, I want to go and do something and I really don't care enough about what it is to plan it. Say, maybe next year I will move back to england, maybe I'll go to art school. If I go to england, maybe i'll live with family there, maybe I'll get my own place and a job wherever I can. If I pick one out and follow it I'm only going to be limited by it, and not be able to do whatever I want.
Of course I'm not saying to sit at home and do nothing forever, it makes me sick to think of people who die in the same house they are born in. I just think making big goals to do with life is silly, when it would be much nicer to drift along wherever I feel like going and not be tied down by goals.
I guess my only goal is to get as far away from this town as possible, but that's as far as I go, I'm not going to plan where I end up.
I don't want to find myself, no, I don't care who I am, why should I have to? I have no idea who I am, and I don't ever want to be boxed into a societal stereotype.
Please ask me what I mean before making an assumption like that, I may have phrased it in a hard to understand way but that was nothing like what I meant
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It wasn't that I was making assumptions. It was late, I was sleep deprived, and had just gotten back from a study watching Lolita. I was feeling eccentric, philosophical and quite conversational. That's why people post their opinions, yes? To spark conversation?
Knowing who you are isn't about following a societal stereotype. I agree that becoming a societal stereotype is the ultimate form a limiting yourself. "My identity is based out of shallow material things and consumerism because its so important to me to believe something, I'll take the fist thing that appeals to my aesthetic and moral values." Challenge your aesthetic and moral values!
So, like i said, no assumptions, just conversation. OPINIONS!
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Wow, what a... useless advice! Lol!
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well telling you to set goals and force yourself into them is useless to me, so you go do that and live your life in a straight line, have fun
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well, literally you say that you should not have goals in life, which would equate to staying at home being breastfed all your life, and that's what I found so hilarious. Believe me, I would love to take life as it comes, but sadly that does not pay my bill
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well i don't remember having to make a goal to stop being breastfed
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Just remember to take vitamin D, since human milk does not contain it
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maybe not entirely useless. State of mind kind of thing. though i believe waiting for life to take you places can also be restricting, what if opportunities never present themselves? Sometimes you have to create your own opportunities.
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This is so true lol^^ I know how he feels o.o I want the same thing^^'
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I was afraid to read this thinking it would make me feel like a lazy piece of shit but it DIDN'T!! 8D
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A comic-strip that has a very good message. Simple, yet to the point!!!
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The icecream castle on the right-hand side.. looks like a man with a mustache :T mhm...
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well, I sure can't eat ice cream without getting my mustache in it, so it's not all that far-fetched!
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OMG THIS IS REALLY INSPIRE ME 
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wonderful work, stephen. so glad to see you doing this!
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I want an ice cream castle!!!!11 
Very true... Very, very true...
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these are awesome, thanks for doing them!!
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This is great advice! I shall implement it now! *implements*
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I showed this to my art teacher and it made her smile. Keep up the great stuff!
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Will do! Thanks Chibi!
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