Only Fools Rush Things

Disclaimer: This column article was originally made for the company I was supposed to be spending my summer internship. This was the shorter version of my previous article which is the "Existential Crisis"

I always laugh at myself every time I remember how I dealt my depression last year. And if you ask me where the culprit came-I am, the only one who causes pressure to myself.

Long before I get to know these two types of goals, I planned on getting a US Visa. Yes, at the age of 19. You know getting this visa isn’t a joke, right?

I don't know if it's just me or the queue of people outside the embassy but the All-time Filipino dream had brainwashed me. I really wanted to be an OFW in the land of the free and brave.

Since I'm a goal-getter person, it itches me not to achieve that goal soon. So then I became the instrument of my own destruction.

Thankfully, I had a chance to talk with my sociology professor in which he had given me answers to my black parade. He introduced me to two types of goals which are the Long and the Short-term goal. 

Short-Term Goals refers to everyday agenda we are doing. It can be as simple as going home safely from work up to planning that reunion with your friends. While Long-Term Goals requires big decisions and tedious brainstorming. It can be that trip abroad or applying a loan for a car. Planning your Long-Term goals also requires patience since the name itself is self-explanatory, Long.

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For now, my short term goal is to finish my studies and to graduate from college. About my long term one, I'll just let my fate do it for me.