THIS is where I WANT to be.

This is the visceral desire I have

at this very moment,

as my Mind has been trying to suggest the topic I should write on.

But does writing always need a topic?

Most will say yes.

While something deep inside of me, says no.

It says no because if I assign a topic first,

and then write against that topic,

I will have given myself a target or a goal.

And in doing so, I will have played right into the game the Mind likes playing.

What game?

The game of setting goals,

achieving or failing to achieve said goals,

and rinse and repeat.

I do not know when the first inception of the idea of goals was.

But I will say, that it is yet another way,

a human gets imprisoned by his majesty.

I often get asked by those who read this for the first time,

or those who are yet stuck in the vicious cycle of goals -

"What is wrong with setting goals?"

Now I before I answer this question.

I will ask you to ponder on this first -

"How would you live life, if you did not know such a thing as a goal or a target?"

Please do.

...

The most common reaction I get from people is one of ...

"How else would you do anything if you do not give yourself a target ?"

I am not astonished to also notice an element of panic on their faces,

and on a few, also a very, very slight tint of curiosity.

Now let us go back to the first question - "what is wrong with setting goals?"

I will answer it saying that something of much, much greater concern to me,

is your absolute necessity for them!

Because the question "What is wrong with setting goals" is merely from the "very top" of your mind.

And the panic of pondering on a living without goals,

was a reflection of not your mind,

but of YOU and your reliance and thus, a deeper imprisoning.

Yes, my friend.

There is nothing wrong with setting goals.

But if you need them to do anything - however worthwhile or mundane,

then you are not Free.

So if at work, you need to set milestones and other agendas to get stuff done,

you are not Free.

Or if at home, you need to have to-do-lists for your chores,

you are not Free.

You are simply imprisoned by your need for goals.

Before you scoff at the statement above,

or file it as "whatever" and have already moved on to this line,

I will warn you that you completely missed the weight of the statement.

Why?

Because what I have stated, is not a mere observation.

It is a disease.

It is a disease that has symptoms scattered all around your consciousness.

The symptoms that make you sacrifice so much of your life,

that to me, a life like that is mere survival,

a daily "responsibility" to inhale and exhale.

What symptoms do I mean?

Unfortunately, it will not be of much use talking about the symptoms,

when you do not accept that you have a disease, will it?

Because you will either deny those symptoms,

or will again miss the weight of the symptoms,

just like you did earlier.

Yes.

Such is the side-effect of living with a mind,

in a society that is basically a much more massive, powerful and ubiquitous, Mind.

The deep-rooted, hyper-conditioned, not second-thought-of need to assign goals,

to anything and everything,

is one of the many tethers that tie you to "you".

But it could have been a far simpler of a predicament,

if such tethers were a few or not growing in number.

But the societal conglomerate of others, supercharged by the latest and greatest tech,

is not just creating new tethers every now and then,

but causing existing ones to mutate into something else not understandable.

And as I watch from a distance,

this mutation is only becoming more and more unnatural,

more and more death-like,

more and more likely to take humanity with it,

and plunge into darkness,

forever.

Thank you.