This is going to be one of the worst analogies you will ever come across. Imagine yourself travelling on the Delhi Metro. 253 stations represent a long list of things you can do in your life, and the list keeps on increasing after every few years. Of course, you are just a traveller and have no control over when new stations are added. It is the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation that takes care of that. They add new stations whenever they think there is a need. Or in our case, a new list of things that can be done in life.
We only have finite time and resources, so we cannot travel to all the stations (except if you are Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe, lots of love for them). We need to carefully choose which station is our destination, which possible route to it, which stations we would have to go through, whether we would stop at any, and which stations we would need to change lines at.
But life is not like this. Even if we choose our destination, it would always mostly change over time. So the whole plan we laid out to get there has to change, too. We were expecting to go to station X, but now we do not need to go there; we can just move on to station Y.
I feel confused by this analogy, so let me just say what I wanted to in the first place. I change what I want to do nearly every other week. I do not mean I am changing the little things along the path of a final goal. I am changing what I do every week without a purpose. I have never done a single thing in my life for more than 3 months. I barely made it to 3 months. I do get back and try something I have already done, but mostly I just keep trying new things and leave them behind. And the time I have is limited, and resources are even scarcer.
I know it does not need to be set in stone what I want to do in my life. It does not need to be like that. But having a goal helps. Having something to look up to and then finally getting there helps. Staying on the yellow line, stopping at a station just to catch the next metro back to the last station and then again getting down at the station to change tracks, it really does not help to reach anywhere. At least not to me.
I do take one day at a time as they come, but I would really appreciate having a goal in my life, even if it is pretty vague. I just want to get up every morning and know that I have something to keep me going.
