GOALS

 

What are goals for? The easiest answer would be to have a reason to wake up in the morning, to see at least some sense in the repetition of processes in the daily time consuming machinery of civilisation. The inclination to be lazy overcomes the human being in times he has nothing serious to worry about. It became too simple to forget about all the “carpe diém” stickers and your ”Ché Guevara” shirt. All the substantial quotes on the calendar epigraphs on the overloaded working desks are a nice read but far away to inspire somebody longer than a minute. All the comfort to postpone something is an insidious sickness which needs time to stay alive. Like in Michael Endes book ‘Momo’, the people lose their abilities of taking risks, to enjoy the moment, to ignore doubts and fill the heart with experiences; in short, to achieve goals and stop dreaming. Instead of pursuing ideas immediately the First-World inhabitant devoted himself to be a consumer. The tradegy got a new chapter, another level of consuming infiltrated the lifes; people watch other people fullfilling their goals. Even the most simple things like cooking or gym became entertainment. A separeted version of how your life could be. If to cook something becomes a fiction the society is in serious trouble. To cover your joy with fiction is one of the perverted views to achieve goals. Another tactic became the long-term plan. Neither the constructed lie which somebody repeats on every occasion nore the real long term sufferings to achieve something far in the future can make you happy in this very moment. While telling your brother, your friends, your colleagues or some strangers in a bar about the new house you will buy or the marathon you will train for after ending the timeconsuming project you are working on right now, you miss the fun of actual doing something. Something worth taking sufferings of established dependencies. Something your brother and colleague really soak up.
A goal does not always have to be hard to achieve as climbing the Himalaya or building your own house in the secluded woods of Canada. A goal just has to be more than an idea, it has to be developed with courage unless it becomes a normal process for you to follow your dreams even if it causes to take some risks. If you step out of the bed and feel this stream into the uncertainty you will feel free, you will feel alive. A goal has not even to be achieved, it is the spirit which makes you enjoy the challenge, it is the spirit which crows out the consumer in you and gives you back your time.