how do I find my goal or dream? everyone seems to have a plan for the future. I too want something to achieve in the long term. Not something that is forced on to me, that is expected of me or that i would do for someone important to me, but something that is completely what i want to do or become. How do i find what that is?

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Anonymous Practitioner · Accepted Answer

I think you are not alone in that question at all and it is something lots of people struggle with. But I think it is a question that is impossible to answer from an armchair. You can only go out into the world and try things and from that empirical experience you realize that you enjoy something, or maybe you meet someone or something happens that shapes your perspective on what's important to you. But you can't find that by analysis alone in a vacuum, it's only the real world that has texture.