Personal Goals Of Life

Growing up, we do our best to be like those we spend most of our time around. Whether it be your grandma that always knows just how to spoil you right or the constant check up on Kylie Jenner’s most recent tweet updates; there’s always someone out there we aspire to be like or that we try to one up. Well, no matter who it might be, or what goals people set for themselves, the journey we create to get there is the life we solely choose to live. Some people choose to idolize and excessively focus on the bigger picture and are happy only when they’ve maxed out each checkpoint to reach their goal. While others are content with the comfort of knowing that they have a place to be and one day they’ll get there, but, for now, they can just back away …show more content…
That would be the saddening situations essential to life, such as the missed opportunities for achievements, deaths, and wrong doings. People “[make the same mistakes despite religion, written language, philosophy, and science,” (Dillard). Dillard observes how we all deal with similar questions of life, but should not overlook these parts of life just because we’re stressing. It’s important to observe stress and all other unhappy portions of life without avoiding them due to the false assumption of ruining a happy life. Besides it seems wasteful to constantly stress over being unhappy when”[in the same way that our eye adapts to different levels of illumination, we 're designed to kind of go back to the happiness set point. Our brains are not trying to be happy. Our brains are trying to regulate us. ' ' So, in a way here, it is reminding people to stop suffocating our ideas of a happy life with every slight chance we get to distract us from the bigger