Set Your Goals Early

When we are young, the world seems to be ours. Nothing can stop our way. We are full of energy and enthusiasm. We have so much time to spend for everyone and everything. We have friends who seem to support us forever, a family who is always there for us. We think this is how life is going to be—everyone by our side when we need them. We spend our time with them thinking they are our world, and invest most of our energy in saving our relationships, failing to notice the time that is passing.

We get involved in various activities daily like jobs, volunteering, interning etc. Some of us spend years on these too. We realize what we have done to our time only later in life when the time has really passed.

So the point is—when we don’t set a proper aim or goal for our life, most of our time is spent in whiling away with people who matter us the least and doing the works which lead us nowhere. We become lost. Life becomes like a maze. We won’t know why we reached there and if it was our desire to be there. However, we understand that something was wrong somewhere in this long process. After much reflection over it and analyzing ourselves every now and then, we reach to a conclusion that we have taken the wrong decisions in our life. Then our eyes open widely.

Although we felt our life to be productive during our youth, as we were busy working and getting involved in various aspects of life, the later stages of our life tell us something different. We realize that we had spent our precious years in trivial matters, with unimportant people, doing nothing much productive. Our aimlessness in life makes us a wanderer. While wandering may take us to different places, it does not take us to the right one, the one we are supposed to be in. But the question is ‘what is that’? It is the place where we had always wanted to be in, which made us happy and satisfied.

So the rule is—make right decisions at the right time. Right time meaning from the early stage of our life and the right decision means deciding on the steps that take us towards the things we like to do, people we love to be with and people we love to be. This might sound difficult. How to go for it then? If we are sure about our aim, the problem is solved. If we are not sure about it, we must take all the opportunities that come in front of us and do the things we love to do. This includes experimenting, exploring, being involved in anything we can when the body is full of energy. We should not wait or procrastinate because time passes quickly.

Things are going to be different with new responsibilities that life brings for us tomorrow. It is completely different than today. We might be able to predict but are not able to see it. When we look back at our life once we become old, our dreams and wishes should not remain as they were before, undone and unfulfilled. So let’s do what we love and live a meaningful life. Let’s not delay.