Is this an ideal life?

Question

I really want a girl in my life. I dream about her. I listen to sad love songs on YouTube. My loneliness makes me cry. I am too afraid to talk to random pretty girls, and when girls I know stop showing interest in me, I retreat.

Now I decide to stop the pursuit. I will forget about my loneliness. I will sing anima Christi to myself in my dark room and focus on my future resurrection. Jesus will fill my lonely void. If a girl happens to come along, great, but not essential.

I have turned from pursuing an animate, living object to a being neither proven nor here except in spirit. Some philosophers have said that it's the buildup to the fulfillment of a desired object rather than that object itself that generates the ideal life and greatest satisfaction. Jesus does this.

Is it rational for me to do this, let alone ideal?

Answer 1

It's your life, my ideal life will be different from yours. You are an individual who has the right and power to define that for yourself. Personally, I believe our flaws and sadness make us beautiful. You don't have to abandon the pursuit of love because you are afraid. Instead of abandoning desire why don't you try building courage? A fine and noble trait to possess.

Answer 2

When one first looks at the idea of serving a being that we can neither see or touch, it's indescribable to imagine. Yet, if you allow yourself to believe this, your life can have a meaning and depth that is unimaginable because Christ gives us joy and unconditional love that know one else can provide. I too struggle with this constant desire of love and romance, but it is not the goal of our life. We too often get lost in thought about the potential of what life may bring (romance, family, successful career, etc) rather than what we have in front of us and I urge you not to dwell on what you are waiting for, but to turn your thoughts and actions to God's mission for our life, to spread the gospel and in time, some, all, or even none may of these things may come to you. It's not God punishing you, you just may have a different path in life, and as the apostle Paul viewed it, singleness is a gift so we should use our time during singleness to its full potential.



So in response, I suppose that if I understand your question then yes, your ideal of choosing to follow Jesus is ideal since he provides the only way to a life that is fulfilled because he has taken all of our sin and cast it on his own shoulders so that we may receive forgiveness. It's the best love story ever told, so don't worry about your own personal one when he has already given us the best love we could ever have.

Answer 3

No, Resurrection of life is the ideal life so you better be saved by Jesus Christ's blood.

Answer 4

i favor to do solid and bypass to a school of my decision. Then i favor to be a piano instructor, well being practitioner, or painter, or if i might want to a hair stylist<3 i favor to marry someone who loves me for who i'm and likes a similar form of song i love. i favor to have 2-4 little ones, the grandchildren, and from there stay in Germany or Canada(: <3