What Do You Want To Do With Your Life?
When I was young and ignorant, I wanted to do many grand things with my life; such as, walking on the moon, or emancipating all the oppressed proletariats in America.
A couple of decades later, I’m still walking on the earth. And I’d abandoned my revolution thought quite a while ago (as disappointed as I was, it’s clear no American was waiting for me to set free). Life went on, however, and I just kept coming up with the new goals, only less and less grand, like losing some weights; it’s clear I’m getting older.
I’m not alone. I found out from a cool website called 43 Things, that setting goals is almost a human nature next to worrying about future. At the time of this writing, 660,082 people in 9,844 cities listed 723,436 in the sites of the things they want to do with their lives.
Not surprisingly, a lot of people share many the same goals. By the count of the site, the top three most popular things people want to do are: lose weight, stop procrastinating, and write a book. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are three least likely achieved goals too; I’ve failed on all three more times than I care to count.
Going through the rest of list, I found that learn Spanish, French or Japanese, respectively, is among the top 30 popular goals. Learn English, I believe, would be in the top ten if not for the fact of a majority of 43 Things users being native English speakers already.
Apparently, for many people, study a second language is as much desirable as fall in love, get married, or travel the world. I’m glad I’d at least achieved a few goals that shared by many others.
Next, should I join 7,930 other people to want to get a tattoo? Life is short, as they say.
A couple of decades later, I’m still walking on the earth. And I’d abandoned my revolution thought quite a while ago (as disappointed as I was, it’s clear no American was waiting for me to set free). Life went on, however, and I just kept coming up with the new goals, only less and less grand, like losing some weights; it’s clear I’m getting older.
I’m not alone. I found out from a cool website called 43 Things, that setting goals is almost a human nature next to worrying about future. At the time of this writing, 660,082 people in 9,844 cities listed 723,436 in the sites of the things they want to do with their lives.
Not surprisingly, a lot of people share many the same goals. By the count of the site, the top three most popular things people want to do are: lose weight, stop procrastinating, and write a book. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are three least likely achieved goals too; I’ve failed on all three more times than I care to count.
Going through the rest of list, I found that learn Spanish, French or Japanese, respectively, is among the top 30 popular goals. Learn English, I believe, would be in the top ten if not for the fact of a majority of 43 Things users being native English speakers already.
Apparently, for many people, study a second language is as much desirable as fall in love, get married, or travel the world. I’m glad I’d at least achieved a few goals that shared by many others.
Next, should I join 7,930 other people to want to get a tattoo? Life is short, as they say.
posted by Lingual Bee at 4:11 AM
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