I love your well-considered and thought-provoking response. It feels like a personal email reply rather than a public forum response. And what are the odds that I will encounter another Stacker who has some experience with Thai culture? I feel like maybe you are one of the few who would understand my fascination with Thai culture (and pull me back so that I don’t get embroiled into the rabbit hole 555)

I like how you equate goals with self-mastery (alongside a defiance to stop living according to societal norms and expectations). I will continue to formulate my idiosyncratic goals that make sense to me and relevance to my circumstances. Hell ya!

Will check out GOALS! Sounds like a wonderful book.

Edited: Can’t find GOALS! in my nation’s electronic library database. So I borrowed “Make more money” instead. Cheers!