Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz
Personally I think ideals and moral kick ass!
Of course you change a lot in life and you have to keep things like that dynamic, but you can always maintain a clear path and chose integrity over douchy behaviour. People who live according to certain ideals and believe in some higher things than getting up in the morning in order to watch a certain TV show tend to live quite awesome lives.
Think about it: Do you have ideals? If the answer is “No” or a hestitation: Sit down and write some fucking NICE things down. Make these things your ideals! Why? Why not? Believe me, it will work out!
/phil