Life and its goals

• There are things to chase and achieve, but you also need to find exuberance in little things.
• Every child’s wish is to experience adulthood. Waiting for the time when you can buy your own stuff with your money, travel alone etc.
• Until then you accomplish your short-term goal, do well in the examinations in school or college. You had to do what you had to do. 
• Then starts real life, the real thing you earned, after all these years of hard work and lassitude... freedom!
• Then you find a job, get settled. Not so easy, not about settling down. You earn your own money, shop whenever you feel like, eat whatever you want, pay your own bills, live your own life, the way you wanted it. You’re now independent, you’ve become an adult now.
• Is that all you wanted, to grow old? 
• A human being’s needs change impulsively and is all ephemeral. If you have a bicycle, you'll want a bike; have a bike, want a car; have a car, want an apartment! So it’s time to find your next big goal, higher studies or highly paid jobs or extravagant marriages. The choice is yours. 
• And then the new struggle begins. Finding your new goal changes everything. Either you relent and start leading the so-called machine life, or as most people wish, miracle happens! Does it?
• Your life is perfect like a ceiling fan: as it keeps running everything is fine, the moment you stop it you'll know the mess you made all these years of running. Running behind money, fame, beauty, until you start realising that you are losing yourself in this. You always have the choice of stopping the fan and cleaning it, as and when you feel like its dusty, or in other words to keep it clean.
• Resilience of exasperation, finding exuberance in little things, let it be playing with a kid, helping the poor, shopping, meeting an old friend, a simple phone call to your dearest, going on a vacation, reading a book of your choice, eating your comfort food, a power nap, etc. Self-pampering. That is all it takes to enjoy the adulthood. Find your passion and keep working on it till you master it.
• It's not easy achieving goals in life. To achieve any goal in life set them the right way, plan and execute their actions in accordance with achieving those dreams over time. 
• Plan your next action carefully and that will plan your life trajectory.
• Wealth should never be the goal in life. Words may be eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart. 
• When money becomes the purpose, stress and depression becomes the path.

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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, 

but in finding something to live for ... Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Be grateful for what you already have 
while you pursue your goals ... Roy Bennett