You can't be happy with yourself if you aren't succesfull. And how can you achieve something if you don't know what do you want. Obviously you never achieved any of your goals so you can say that goals aren't a necessity.
I'm filled with joy, selfesteem and proud when i set goal and achieve it. Also i haven't found something like that in my life that will give me those feelings. Maybe you think that failure is a bad thing. If you take it as a failure than probably it is failure.
Since i was 8 my only goal was becoming pro basketball player. I was playing and training basketball every day 4-6 hours per day. My dreams were basketball games. My life was basketball. It was my only goal and i wanted it so hard. I don't know many kids who wake up at 6 am during summer break and go to practice. I didn't think about that the way i'm thinking it now but i was sure that is the only way to be great player. For 10 years i was living like that
until one day while i was on collegge i stoped. Nobody understood why i did that. I was great player, played against few of today NBA players, i was one of the best young players in my country. And then i stopped.
Two years have pasted since that decision and i still haven't found one person who would understand why i did it. But simply it is not my goal anymore. My parents think that i threw 10 years of hard work in the wind and i don't have regrets. I don't think that was a failure because i remember how bad i was when i was 8 and how good i was 10 years later. I'm proud of myself, i learned a lot about people playing with different kinds of them and i know that if i managed to learn playing b-ball i can manage anything.
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