A while ago, I wrote up a list of things I wanted, and then boiled it down to the core desires. So, things like, "I want an Intel Core i7-3970X" would morph into, "I want people to be impressed with what I have or can do".

After some work, I came up with four things I really want.

• I want to feel loved (or, I want to have true friends).


• I want to have work, and responsibility.


• I want things to challenge my mind.


• I want to be creative, to make things worth making, to have a positive and lasting impact on the world.

Now, for some good news and bad news. The good news is, God satisfies all of those categories.

The bad news is, I don't always go to God to satisfy those categories.

As you guys know, I've been on quite a few web forums before. This is the third one I've been an admin on, and the fifth I've had some kind of admin or moderator job. The first forum I got on, which is what got me into forums in the first place, was a little forum I don't think I'll name. The point is, it's a forum for an open source video game I like. If you combine the forum and the game, all those categories are satisfied.

You've got "friends" who play the game, a responsibility to smite spammers (I was on the spam assassinating team), tons of technical problems to overcome, and the ability to help develop addons for the game (addons which I have spent days on end designing, coding, and documenting).

Of course, I'm not on that forum anymore, it was a major waste of time and effort, and the members were pretty offensive (the admins were hardly ever on, it's an anarchy).

So, what I'm getting at is, you should know what you want. What are your goals? How are you going about achieving them?