Building.

Recently I've been challenged about the way I think about my life. Do I sail along letting life happen, responding to events and experiences, or am I more proactive than that? If so, what am I working towards? Ha ha, that reminds me of an idea we were discussing in my Holocaust class a few weeks ago, about the notion of individual members of the Nazi state being encouraged to 'work towards the Fuhrer', which people interpreted in various different ways. (See Ian Kershaw's argument)

Despite the possible right-wing, racist-fascist kill-everyone-take-over-the-world connotations, I think it's worth having a wee think about things in that way - not working towards Hitler, but thinking about what it is I'm working towards with my life, subconsciously and consciously. What are my aims? What are my ambitions? What, to slip momentarily into Christianese, is my vision? What is it that really matters to me above all else? Difficult questions, with potentially highly convicting answers (as in answers that will require me to get off my backside, stop blogging, and start doing something about them!)

I'll do some thinking, and write a fuller attempt at an answer soon. In the meantime, what are you building, or hoping to build?