Goals

Through our life our goals and intentions change probably a thousand times.

It has to do with age, at different ages your mind processes differently, therefor it makes different goals for it self. Even the amount of our goals change through our ages. 

For example when we were younger we would set goals that were much bigger. We would look at the world as our playground and think what ever we set our minds on could be ours just like that. “I want to travel to the moon” “I’m gonna become the president.” “I want to live in Narnia.” However, as you may already know, growing up we realized that getting towards those bigger goals actually requires working for them. So our goals have become smaller, and more realistic. “I need to pass this test.” “I’m going to apply for jobs” “I’ll go on a diet.”

Although, it is not all dependent to our age. Our goals for the future may change drastically through out the same year, and I believe the reasoning behind that is the influences we follow and familiarize our self with. Through that year we may change friend groups, start watching a new TV series, read an inspiring book, that changes our perspective on life entirely. In result of that we could find different interests and realize our old interests were in fact not at all interesting or something that we wanted to pursue… It could have been by the pressure of others, that being society, family and or friends. At every moment we continue on living we feel that we have come further from the past, we understand, see, and think clearer than what we did before and feel as thought there is no more to it. When the truth is that even though you had that feeling when you were eight, you have probably learned more about the world since then, and you will learn more about the world in the future. And our knowledge is another thing that influences the change of our goals and ambitions. As we learn new things constantly we decide that there is so much more to do in the world that we forget about our old intentions and set new lists for our selves constantly.

We always have these things in the back of our heads, however today I received this letter from my younger self as a time capsule from grade 8 to grade 12. I had written my goals for the future, my favourite items of the present ( which is now the past) and also what my thoughts were. Reading that made me realize how much I have changed and remember how I thought I knew everything in the world back then and could possibly never end up doing anything else than what was my normal routine back then. However my goals, outlook on life, and activities back then have remarkably changed, and I believe that is because of the three reasons I listed above : Age, Influences and Knowledge. Reading that letter made me wonder where age, influence and knowledge will take me to in the future and how different I will be, which I guess I will see in a couple of years…

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