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ng_moonmothInitial post on what I'm doing here.
28. In your life, what matters the most to you?
I choose to read this question by taking as a given the fundamentals: things like life itself and the various things that sustain it, along with the desire to not acquire those fundamentals by depriving others of same. Setting those aside, what comes through for me is this:
That I remain in the world, and engaged with the world, throughout my life. I do not take to confinement, physical or mental, well at all, and would find it very hard to deal with a condition that left me aware of my state but unable to communicate this awareness with the world at large. And I also hope that those who love me not need to deal with a husk of a mind inside a body that still lives, or a husk of a body containing a mind that still thinks. I have seen others try to cope with this, and the amount of stress they wind up under. Do. Not. Want.
I found evaluating things in my life for this question somewhat tricky. What I value the most in life was getting in the way. I eventually decided that I would measure "what is valued" by the emotional satisfaction from having something, and measure "what matters" by the emotional distress I sustain from not having something. Once I got that clear to myself, I was able to work out the answer.
28. In your life, what matters the most to you?
I choose to read this question by taking as a given the fundamentals: things like life itself and the various things that sustain it, along with the desire to not acquire those fundamentals by depriving others of same. Setting those aside, what comes through for me is this:
That I remain in the world, and engaged with the world, throughout my life. I do not take to confinement, physical or mental, well at all, and would find it very hard to deal with a condition that left me aware of my state but unable to communicate this awareness with the world at large. And I also hope that those who love me not need to deal with a husk of a mind inside a body that still lives, or a husk of a body containing a mind that still thinks. I have seen others try to cope with this, and the amount of stress they wind up under. Do. Not. Want.
I found evaluating things in my life for this question somewhat tricky. What I value the most in life was getting in the way. I eventually decided that I would measure "what is valued" by the emotional satisfaction from having something, and measure "what matters" by the emotional distress I sustain from not having something. Once I got that clear to myself, I was able to work out the answer.
