The line is “One of my main goals in life is to make my parents proud”.
I am interested to know my parents’ opinion on my life, and consider their general advice as an input, but I think if anyone told me it was their primary goal, then I’d anticipate they were shortsighted and needed to get out of their bubble. The people I’ve met who are most likely to say that I think are people who will never move out of the town they were born in, and don’t have any truly ambitious goals.
For instance, if the question was a proxy for “Tick yes if you’ve not found many meanings or purposes that are worth devoting your life to beyond the immediate relationships you were born into, and may never leave your home town” then it would seem drastically too high to me, by around 10x.
In contrast the question I’d like to see be high is something more like “I have a loving relationship with my parents”. That seems healthy to me.
The line is “One of my main goals in life is to make my parents proud”.
I am interested to know my parents’ opinion on my life, and consider their general advice as an input, but I think if anyone told me it was their primary goal, then I’d anticipate they were shortsighted and needed to get out of their bubble. The people I’ve met who are most likely to say that I think are people who will never move out of the town they were born in, and don’t have any truly ambitious goals.
For instance, if the question was a proxy for “Tick yes if you’ve not found many meanings or purposes that are worth devoting your life to beyond the immediate relationships you were born into, and may never leave your home town” then it would seem drastically too high to me, by around 10x.
In contrast the question I’d like to see be high is something more like “I have a loving relationship with my parents”. That seems healthy to me.