This will be viewed from my perspective of my only goal in life.
What is the goal? Is it a time frame that you set for yourself to achieve a certain expectation? You have thoughts in your mind that ask if it is attainable? Is it something that you can really do? What might happen if there are unforeseen challenges that you cannot control and that you cannot prepare for?
It becomes the new reality that you have to adapt to in a seconds notice. It is not something that you have to be discouraged by. I choose to live with the state of mind that ” If there’s a will then there’s a way “. If you choose not to give up on goals and ideals ,then you can always make a plan B. Even if it takes you through the entire Alphabet. All you need is a strong resolve.
My lifelong goal is simplistic in the sense of the phrase. However the more you look into it, it becomes a bit more of a challenge. Like a painting with a thousand meanings. I want to have a family. A wife and 2 kids. It sounds a bit generic, but through my short life that I’ve lived. I’ve seen children that can’t afford to get a proper education due to financial issues. Seen timid children on the streets that have no choice, but to beg or steal due to the poverty in the area. I know that life is not fair and not everyone can be born with a silver spoon in their mouths, but it’s a sad sight to witness when a five year old walks up to you for some change to buy snacks to eat for supper.
It has opened my eyes to the circumstances that others around me face. I know that one person can’t solve poverty. However I would not want a child to fall into a life of crime. There are children in orphanages with no where to turn to, with parents who’ve abandoned them for substances. I feel that the least that I could do is offer a child a new life in my family. To provide them with the opportunity that they never had. Something that was taken from them without notice.
The goal seems so far down the line, and even if we are in a pandemic and life becomes more unbearable. I try and do my best to continue inching everso closely to my lifelong goal. To be able to be a man of integrity, a man of financial stability and a family man.
A man isn’t made through strength, he isn’t made over a day, he isn’t made based on society’s standards. He is made by the people he surrounds himself with and the people he protects.
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