On Goals

During a deep conversation I had with one of my friends a couple of weeks ago, he mentioned ideas that I related to and agreed with. He said that "his true goal (at the moment) is doing his best in every endeavor". Up to this point I already had a lot of respect for him as he is studying chemical engineering, kept his grades up, successfully ran a marathon, and amidst all his other extra-curricular commitments he is capable of having a good time. His other goals included "having better communication skills and becoming an effective leader". He also mentioned that he "enjoyed the pursuit of reaching a goal." I can relate to these previous statement because setting a goal and genuinely attempting to reach it has always been what my life was about. Whether it is a goal to improve my basketball skills, working out to obtain a more fit body, compete to reach the state level in Academic Decathlon, or to achieve the highest GPA possible.

This reminded me of the notion of fighting for what you believe in or the fact that nothing in life worth fighting for is easy. Life will throw large, hard rocks your way and you face a decision whether or not to fight through them. I firmly believe in working hard towards something and getting something worth it in return--that is related to the inputted work.

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People like to do things the easy way. Daily choices are made with ease in mind (given that they have given thought on which way is easier than the others). Maybe people are this way because people are goal-oriented and they want to finish their current goal in order to begin the next goal or task. People like me are goal-oriented and see some daily decisions as goals. Whether it is to improve my academic life or my athletic life. However, some people may not be as goal-oriented as I am and their daily decisions do not include an underlying goal in mind. Some people are like this because they do not live their daily lives with specific, small goals in mind. Or they do not know what they want and what their goals are. They simply life their lives in such a way where anything they do does not have to have a higher purpose (e.g. playing video games or watching television are for entertainment and relaxation purposes).