Pursue Your Goals Relentlessly

I always say, “Life is great.” Recently a friend of mine asked me, “Why is life so great to you?” It made me question myself. Am I somehow ignoring the dark reality of my life? Am I hiding my true emotions behind a superficial wall that I have created mentally? I thought about it and this is what I have to say.

Life can be pretty hard. We face setbacks every single day. I face situations where I can easily give up and nobody would ever give a fuck to whether I did persevere or not. I can easily settle down with an insane annual pay cheque in my pocket. Why the hell am I, then, talking about goals? To make it worse, about super-ambitious and unrealistic goals?

I think it is the dreams and goals that make me say, “O boy! Life is great.”

People often consider their routine life to be boring. They whine about how shitty their life has become and what not. Married people have a great excuse of blaming their partner for whatever they started many years back. I sometimes wonder, “How did they end up here? What really went wrong? Am I going to face something similar? Is it approaching me as well?”

Hell NO!

People will advise you to have goals and dreams to move you towards success. I am really good at ignoring such advice.

I like to use goals as an excuse towards ignoring the possibility of getting to the point where I get bored with a routine life with monotonous work being bent on my neck which has no relevance in real world.
Did I just use the word “goals”?

Rather, I believe more in super-ambitious and unrealistic goals. It helps me in much better ways.

Super-ambitious and unrealistic goals have a great power within. They can enable you to push through certain situations and acquire certain habits which you wouldn’t have otherwise acquired or learnt in your entire lifetime. I am saying this from personal experience. I have a super-ambitious and somewhat unrealistic goal according to my current situation. This goal has enabled me to try certain things which I wouldn’t have otherwise even thought of starting. This very thought of having that goal in my head pushes me to persevere to an extent which I wouldn’t have otherwise.

During the past one year, I have had many thoughts against having unrealistic goals. I thought it will make me happy for no real reason. Then I started looking at people around me and I knew one thing, it’s better to pursue my own unrealistic goals and see where I end up at? I am not talking about earning a specific salary or getting into Google. I am talking about something that you care about, something that defines you, but your current situation might not be allowing you to pursue that “something.” I am talking about something that’s bigger than yourself. Something that you value the most.

One beautiful thing about pursuing unrealistic goals is that in the pursuit of such goals, you will end up learning in such tremendous ways that actually reaching that end goal would have a little relevance in a true sense.

Go bears! Have a super-ambitious and unrealistic goal. It works.

Allow it to make you suffer until the time you have learnt.
Give it more power than your excuses.
Let your heart shine brighter than the Sun.

My father always says, “Don’t you ever give up on a goal just because of the time it would take to accomplish. That time will pass anyway. Why not spend it pursuing something that’s worthwhile?”