Setting Goals Is A Dangerous Business
Setting goals is a common action among most people in the world today. Some of our goals could be short like paying this bill or making it through this time period today. Others still could be loftier ones such as reading so many books or watching so many movies within, again, a certain time period. Some goals though are abandoned. They aren’t placed on the back-burner for any particular reason sometimes, though there are definitely moments when certainly they must be abandoned for a number of reasons. No, the goals I’ve thinking about are the ones we abandon because we lacked the courage to carry them out a certain moment in our lives and then are paralyzed in fear to ever act in the way we should to meet our goal for fear of the unknown. Eventually time wears on and for a time the memory of our goal dulls in our mind; yet there are moments when something small, an insignificant thing, causes it to come back singularly to the forefront.
And we stand there and think to ourselves, ‘Hello goal. My… I thought I had forgotten about you.’ And we turn the goal once again over in our minds, picking it back up, weighing out the possibility of possibly taking it up once again. Yet there’s hesitation. The doubts you left around that goal are still there, just as vivid. The questions start once again; only now—now there’s more to think about. You have a sense of stability now. Do you want to throw that away? Your position is known now and you’ve worked so long to get where you’re at, do you really want to start over? You’ve established yourself within a certain area, near family and friends. Do you want to move away from that? Slowly the goal loses its luster within a cloud of “what-if’s”, hesitations and fears that lurk ever around this thought.
Still though, you consider your goal and you wonder what your life would be like if you finally went after this one goal you had all along? You realize that maybe all your searching for purpose within the various activities you do might just be an underlying desire to do that which you wanted to do from the beginning, but were afraid of doing. What should you do?
What will you do?
This entry was posted on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 8:04pm. It has been filed under News, Thoughts, Personal, Events, Writers, Joshua.
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