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When Not Reaching Your Goals is Ok
An idea about staying true to your present you, instead of your past you.
When I was a child, I dreamed to become a journalist. I admired them. Everybody did. They got to write (love it), be on the TV screen, appear well dressed and overall, be the smartest looking people I had ever seen.
Life turned out differently. When I went to college I didn’t study Journalism, as I thought I wanted since second grade. Reasons included my mother insisting I go with the crowd for business studies and me lacking self confidence that, indeed, I would turn journalism into a better option for the future.
At that point, I was disappointed at myself for not standing out, but relieved that I didn’t yet have to make a firm decision for my life.
After all, if business studies didn’t turned out lucrative, a part of me was ok, because if I failed, I could always blame mom for not supporting me to follow my calling, right?
Guess what? My BA is in International Business and Economics, and I loved it! Out of 25 different courses, I found most of them interesting and eye opening.
My favorite topics were international marketing and commercial international negotiations. To the 20 year old me back then, which was brought up in a rural, agrarian region, my courses seemed close to UFO…
