Goals, Passion, Duties and Rights

We often ask young men and women, "What is your goal?"

This question conveys that, in life, there is only one goal.

Also, the statement does not reflect the fact that goals are ever changing and evolving.

Goals are time and space bound.

Oftentimes you also need to pursue different types of goals at the same time.

One should concurrently have career goals, societal goals, spiritual goals, among others.

So, simply asking "What is your goal?" is an incomplete inquiry.

Whatever is your goal, you need an engine to drive it.

"Passion" is that engine.

Goals without passion often go nowhere.

Many people go through their entire life searching for their passion.

Some people, like my wife Revathy, recognize it very early in life.

Since her childhood, Revathy knew her passion was medicine.

Setting goals to achieve it was incidental.

What is the difference between a well established business enterprise and a "start up"?

More often than not, it is the passion.

Passion is something money can not buy.

Although, big companies spend big moneys to incorporate the passion by acquiring the "start ups".

Goals and passion, by themselves however, can be self centered.

If the intended recipient of the benefits is just oneself, then these goals and passion are limited in their value. To expand the impact, a passionate goal must accompany a sense of "duty".

Duty is the centerpiece of a society.

If everyone performs his, or her "duty", the "rights" of everyone else will be guaranteed.

The vacuum in the world today is created, not by the lack of "guaranteed rights",

but by the "dereliction of duties". "

Let us hold the individuals, politicians and businesses accountable for their duties.

Rest of the world will fall in place.