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What's your goal?



Life goals, something not many people really think about.
I, on the other hand, have a sort of obsession when it comes to thinking about the future and life in general, what are we doing? Where are we going? What is it all for? At the end of the day we are just mere pawns, answering to bishops who answer to the knights and the rooks who answer to the king and the queen, not literally of course, but you get what I mean, just pieces in a game we call life.

Ask yourselves right now what are your life goals? What do you want to get out of life? Health, money, love, friendship, travel... so many things people aspire to. I have no clue when it comes to what I want. We study to work, work to pay bills, pay bills to live 'comfortably', live 'comfortably' to be happy, be happy to enjoy life and enjoy life to eventually die.
How many of us are really enjoying life or doing what we want?  When is it too late to go after your life goals?

At this very moment, 18:04 on Tuesday the 27th of October 2015 there are more than 7 billion people,
7376798530 to be precise. Even though people are dying every minute, more people are being born every minute, this means that the world population is constantly growing, There is only a limited amount of space for all of us, and with places being flooded, bombed and other catastrophes occurring, Where are we all going to fit in a hundred years time? 
All of these people, and only 1% percent of them have more money than all the rest combined. Gives you something to think about.  

I ask myself what do each of us do for someone else? How many of us help an old lady on the bus with her shopping, or make a homeless person smile? How many of us are out there who want to be heard but don't have a voice? How many of us go on with our day to day lives without thinking about how some people in the world live? How many of you are not even slightly bothered?
It's a big world out there where power and money have become 7 billion times more important than the well being of the planet, of the planets inhabitants and of the more simple things in life.
It's scary to think how most of you will read this of your smartphone while sitting around family or friends, or even in a coffee shop somewhere where you have entered because of the free wifi, letting life pass you by as you slowly become more and more introvert and dependent on these little devices that do everything for us, that are even thinking for us. And someone is worrying about what color to paint her nails or what pair of socks they are going to wear.

Going forward is just taking us back.

18:13 - 7376800097 people.

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