Goals For Today?

 We keep waxing eloquent about having goals for 5 years (an HR interview favourite that has no clear answers). 

But what about goals for today? Let me list out a few-

1. To stay alive

2. To have 2-3 cups of good tea

3. To meet a friend. If not, a nice colleague

4. To put my feet up for a while

5. To sip some Single Malt, slowly, after dark.

Ok, the last is to avoid meetings.

Relevance of Gandhiji

We often miss the woods for the trees, and get caught up in what Gandhi did instead of what he could do for us today.

Even if 20% of us in India (or anywhere, actually) could think about issues like he did, got set in our beliefs after trying things out, and stuck to them in the face of tough odds, we might be a different people. Instead, what we focus on is whether he married (or abstained), whether he was a vegetarian, and what he wore.

These are irrelevant, and contextual. He may have done several things, and wisdom is not in imitating them, but discovering the truth for ourselves.

I urge everybody to do so. I know I am not Gandhiji, and I don't have a zillion followers, but maybe half a dozen may pay heed. If not, well, I have made my case anyway.