Who Knows?
Q: What’s your goal for 2011?
A: Who knows?
I’ve been an Industrial Engineering student since 2006, and I believe it’s one of the factors that made me develop the habit of being organized. Planning has been in my system for a long time, and I know how frustrating it feels when plans get messed up and no backup plans have been prepared. My point? I’m going to let things flow this year — maybe hold back from too much planning. 
I know, it sounds silly. Planning is inevitable. But then again, so are frustrations. I’ve had enough of that. I can still take a little, but not too much. For now, I just have one specific goal, and that is to graduate this coming March (with flying colors, if fate permits 
). After that, I actually don’t know what will happen. It’s not like the past years that I had always known I’d still be a student the following year. Everything’s gonna change after I get my diploma. What’s next? Work? CIE? Master’s degree? Well, who knows? 
I’ve got a career plan set up when we were asked to make one in our Human Resource Management class last semester. But no one’s really certain about the future, right? It’s good to have a goal, yes, when you always want your actions to be directed. It all just gets foul when action plans get pushed back or side-tracked one after the other. I’ve tried setting goals for myself before. I wanna try setting no goals this time (except when my being an Industrial Engineer — by heart or by profession — calls for it). That’s how I’m pressing my life’s reset button. But it doesn’t really mean I’m just gonna sit back and do nothing. I’m just allowing myself to explore and enjoy the present, leaving the past behind, and the future to God’s hands. 
I wanna share a post from one of my favorite blogs/websites. I’ve read this around midyear 2010, and it’s one article I can’t seem to forget. It’s entitled The Best Goal is No Goal. That post explains what I’m trying to say here better. Hehe. 
The year is too long to speak of in a short while. Might as well take it one day at a time. I might or might not even change my view about this matter. Who knows, really?
I’m ending this post with a quote worthy to live by (also found in the post I shared):
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Made me realize I must have a career plan. Mga laag ra man akong gihuna-huna after grad. hahaha
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Haha lingaw pud btaw ang laag. Pero it’s okay pud if career plans are not followed. Adventure nuon. Hehe.
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perhaps that will change after YMA, hopefully
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THE BEST GOAL IS NO GOAL!, read sad sa BE STILL….go w/ the flow lang…I am an Industrial Engineer by HEART pud=))
GOGOGOGOGO!
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Hahaha pareho utok mga IE.
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I’m looking forward to your graduation Miks. Can’t waiiiit!
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I-ampo ko Bry ha! Hahaha.
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I’m not very organized at all. Time, money, school – messy.
So being a teacher should fit me well. 
I never follow through with goals, so I don’t usually set any major ones. I just think about them…dream…I’m lazy like that.
You’re graduating college and I’m graduating high school. Lulz.
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Let’s do our best to graduate! Hahaha.
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Cool~ Some people’s resolutions this year is to get better at planning stuff. Yours is different. I think it makes sense though
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Yep, I can sense people are still into planning. That’s still good, though. On my side, I just want to know what it’s like to be spontaneous. Hahaha.
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[...] Nobody really knew what was gonna happen in 2011. I told myself before not to make plans to avoid frustrations. But I guess that habit has been nailed to my bones and the more I tell myself not to plan, the deeper I drive the nail. Of course, not everything was planned. In fact, most of them happened on their own. And guess what? Those unplanned things were the ones that made my 2011 worthwhile. [...]