In yesterdays blog I wrote about goals. If you don’t set them, you will never accomplish them. An opposite philosophy would be, wherever you are going, that’s where you’ll be. You may drift through life. You may have a purpose driven life. I’m not passing judgment, I’m not saying one is morally superior to the other, because in the end we’re all dust.
But I am setting some goals. There are professional goals. We’re now trying to negotiate a partnership with another school. I think we can give them an infusion of life and I think they can help us get back in the game. So, that’s one goal.
But writing is as important to me as teaching, and my goals are pretty clearly stated on the front page. A blog a day, a book a month and poetry on the side. But what are the reasons for those goals, and what are the goals of those goals.
The reason is straightforward enough. I want to be a writer and hope that if I churn out enough words, in a rigid enough format, eventually the seed will take root and then sprout, reaching through the dirt at the interface of earth and sky, extending a te nuous tentacle, you’ve all seen the bean sprouts in time lapse photography on the Discovery channel, reaching into the sky and converting the energy of the sun into stalk, branches, leaves, flowers before casting a new seed aloft on the wind to begin the cycle again. I want to change the world and I want to be famous and rich. Also, I truly feel that I have things to say which no one else will say, certainly which no one else is saying, and whether they are worthwhile, original thoughts or just random mental doodling, I want them to see the light of day.
Which brings me to the goal of the goals.
A book a month sounds like a hell of a lot and it is and so far I’ve been getting away with a lot of padding, with some good stuff in the middle. The goal of the goal is to write something great, something which explains the universe, which sheds light on the meaning of human existence, which improves humanity or something like that.
But, I’d be happy with amusing people tremendously.
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good goals. I would like to read a book telling the differences and similarities between the US and other countries, like the Czech Republic, etc. Something other than propaganda. I think understanding between the people, not the governments, of all countries is what is needed, a global ‘coffee shop’ or ‘pub’ where no politicians are allowed. I would buy that book.