Pursuing your goal is good but........
If you browse the
Internet, you will find endless materials that emphasize on the
importance of having goals and striving to achieve them. But on a
number of occasions, you may have certainly wondered if you are doing
a great disservice to yourself by focusing too much on achieving
your goal. Precisely put, you are wasting your life by imagining
about the alluring promise of an undefinable land called "future."
Unfortunately, such promised lands may not exist at all, not to talk
of reaching them.
In his essay entitled "The Station," Robert J. Hastings metaphorically describes that everyone of us is traveling by a mystical train called life. We will be continuing our journey with the anticipation and belief that we will be arriving at a station when the train takes the next bend. We keep imagining that the station will be beautiful and will provide a panacea that may solve all the problems of our life. We may also imagine that when we arrive at the station, a big cr…
In his essay entitled "The Station," Robert J. Hastings metaphorically describes that everyone of us is traveling by a mystical train called life. We will be continuing our journey with the anticipation and belief that we will be arriving at a station when the train takes the next bend. We keep imagining that the station will be beautiful and will provide a panacea that may solve all the problems of our life. We may also imagine that when we arrive at the station, a big cr…