A Justifiable Goal

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Good day people, trust we are having a great day? My apology if I didn't visit your article yesterday. Like I said in my previous post, there are a lot on my desks this week. Seriously, yesterday was more tedious that I don't pray for the rest to be like that. Can you imagine writing a post for 7 hours? 😬 I have been compiling my article for the challenge on Hive since 10am and I finally posted at 5pm. Ask me what I have been doing? Even after making research the day before, I still ended up using that amount of hours. It really drained my energy that I couldn't even read an article to the end, I closed my tab and rested for a while. I managed to reply comments on my previous posts too. Thank you for understanding 😔

Today will be different and I will be talking about something controversial. Yes! You heard me. We all desire to be successful but only few are working towards paying the price.

If any goal is worthy, then any means taken to achieve it are justifiable? Who said it? Even if it means costing your brother's life?

As an individual, we understand that to move ahead and faster in life, we need to plan. By planning, we have several goals to hit on a daily basis that moves us closer to a bigger goal in the end. According to this prompt, "if any goal is worthy, then any means taken to achieve it are justifiable" which I oppose. I will be explaining some points below.

When a goal is set, there are so many ways which can be taken to achieve such a goal including the positive and negative ways. As a student, our top priority in college is to do excellently well, but how we do that is very important. Why do I say it is important? A student’s goal can be having an A in a particular course and we know that for a student to get an A grade or a B grade, it takes a lot of effort from such a student most especially when we are talking about a tough course. Having sleepless nights, going to the library to concentrate, researching and covering all pages of the course are ways for the student to get what he or she desires. When such student gets an A or B as he or she wanted, has he or her goal been achieved? Yes and it is most justifiable and reasonable.

In some part of the world, we have heard "sex for grades" in numerous colleges. This means, a student can have sex with a lecturer in an exchange for grade according to what they agree on. After this has happened, such a student doesn’t bother about reading or studying hard, in the end the student makes an A or a B grade. Has the student succeeded in achieving the goal? Yes, she has! Which the same happens for sex for money. You pay a particular amount of money to get a grade that you want. The goal is worthy, the means taken are not worthy and thereby not justifiable.

To be justifiable means one needs to be reasonable in attaining a goal. Another example is setting a goal to buy a house or a car in few months from the set date. This would have been achievable if you own your money and say you have been working hard and saving up. There is so much news lately of internet fraudsters duping different men and women on the internet. Some men go as far as positioning themselves online for a lady to deceive various people. If they are successful, they hit it big depending on what they can get from their respective clients. After this, they buy what they have set as a goal which is a car or a house, it could be both and they are happy. Are the goals worthy? Yes, they are! It is a beautiful feeling to own a car and a house and a great feeling to own both at the same time but the means taken to achieve the goal is not reasonable.

Let me make another example which is also visible and understanding to us here. @JRamona20 sets a goal at the beginning of October to reach a certain amount of bch after posting and visiting other articles. She really worked towards it by sacrificing most of her time at nights in order to achieve such goal. Then when the month ends, she calculated all her earnings and found out that she had succeeded in getting beyond her goals. Do you think she deserves it? Yes! Why? Because she did it in a legal and pure way. She could have plagiarized or even gone through other means but she did not because she knows whatever she does to get such goal achieved isn't justifiable and reasonable.

I am sorry for using you as an example 🙈🙈

In conclusion, while we set various goals, we should have it at the back of our minds that there isn’t one way to crush such goals, we should endeavor to look for reasonable means to achieve those goals instead of thinking any means taken would be justifiable. It is very important to pass through the process when achieving a goal instead of cutting corners. 

Thanks for reading

|October 26, 2021|