Do You Have "Normal" Goals Now?

by compound complex 23 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Quirky1
    Quirky1
    just picking up where you left off before you became a Witness

    This is me...just trying to piece my life back together.

  • hillbilly
    hillbilly

    good topic... I am striving for a higher level of mediocrity

    Hill

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Quirky1:

    This is me...just trying to piece my life back together.

    That describes so many of us. Let's stay with it and not get discouraged (I say to myself).

    Thanks for your thought.

    CoCo

  • no more kool aid
    no more kool aid

    My husband and I went back to school while we were still in. We spend a lot of time helping the kids set goals like allowing them to pursue higher academic goals and more sports activities. We are saving for their college. I notice we have so much in common with our new normal friends, they too attend kid's sporting events, save for college, just normal stuff. I find I have less and less in common with the few JW friends we have left. They really don't have goals even though they go to meetings, they really live rather selfish lives with materialistic pursuits ( you would think it would be just the opposite). Even with little goals like cleaning the basement or painting a room, I have time to do it and do it right for the first time in my life.

  • yknot
    yknot

    Hmmm seeing how when I saw this thread I thought to myself .... what "worldly" goals do I have ?....I guess I am a work in progress....

    What exactly are 'normal' goals anyways?

    So far all I can think of is .....

    Expensive memory making family vacation in two years

    Commit the full amount to IRAs and kids college funds within two years

    New bigger house and property in three years.

  • mavie
    mavie

    Finish my B.S. now that the A.S. is complete.

    Love my wife and do not harm.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thanks, Friends, for sharing some memorable thoughts:

    I am striving for a higher level of mediocrity.

    Hill

    I have time to do it and do it right for the first time in my life.

    nmka

    I guess I am a work in progress....

    yknot

    Love my wife and do not harm.

    mavie

    Gratefully,

    CoCo

  • Witness 007
    Witness 007

    I got a few certificates got a better job filling my house with "meterial things"......now I need an "Orginisation" to join.

  • chickpea
    chickpea

    happily engaged in an academic pursuit...

    although i had my BA prior to assimilation
    i am now in an AAS degree program in
    CAM (complementary/alternative medicine)
    with a focus in aromatherapy .....
    a stepping stone to the masters degree program

    fits and starts with the rosetta stone french language program
    as part of a long term goal to join the peace corps

    i feel soooo normal!!!

  • BurnTheShips
    BurnTheShips
    Have you developed new interests and goals now that you're no longer a Kingdom-oriented JW?

    Going back to U next year, working on investments, thinking of start a business, another child...a normal life!

    Or just picking up where you left off before you became a Witness?

    Not possible for me, I was born in!

    BTS

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