Ever-changing Goals!

Life is strange enough to let one realize how it passes by. It engrosses one’s energies towards translating ever-changing personal and family objectives & dreams into reality from the early age to the last breathe. People neither come out of this vicious circle nor do they surrender. Let’s take a look at some of our most common goals and priorities under an age span of 70 years.

                

Infant

Natural goals; crying, sleeping and getting regular feeds

Kid                                         

Innocent goals; candies, chocolates, toys and getting filthy

Initial schooling     

Kindergarten goals; eating all the time, games and stiff resistance against schooling

Regular schooling

Childish goals; high-tech toys, ample junk food and; how to get rid of “homework”?

Adolescence                      

Teen goals; computer, casual clothes, hangout with friends but shy; careless in studies

College life  

Late-teen goals; jeans, music, motorbike, romantic novels/movies, cell phone, texting to girls; dad is furious over staying away till late midnight

Welcome to university     

Young goals; overcoming shyness, hangout till late, love burgers and pizzas; studying a bit harder, aiming for better grades

Farewell to university       

Serious in studies for final exams, expecting excellent results

Exciting goals; Life will be complete with a better job, a car, an apartment and the most beautiful wife

Ten years later                   

Still struggling; less salary, small & old car, just married to an ordinary looking girl – neighbours’ have always good-looking wives - paying back loans, and living in a parental home.

Grown-up goals; life free of loans, a new & bigger car, own a better house in posh area, and two children (preferably; son, daughter)

Ten more years                 

Maintaining a bigger but old car, reasonable salary but still inadequate to meet expenses, rented apartment and no respite from borrowing.

Mature-age goals; need handsome amount to fulfill children’s endless demands, a sleek new car, converting rented house into home

Ageing                                  

Good job, good salary, own a car, a house.

Ageing goals; maintain good health, top position in office, high salary, children to attend expensive & reputable universities, separate car for the children, and to find the best match for the daughter

Twilight                                

Retired from active life, living with wife, watch family videos, scan photo albums, enjoy talk shows on TV, bigger house than needed, surplus money, one car sold out, the other sparingly used - children living separately and busy accomplishing their own goals.

Twilight goals; serve the nation, seek children’s next visit, strict diet control, and take medicines regularly to live healthy & long life