This Post Will Give You Some Major Anti-Behavior Goals

A conversation between friends..

Girl 1: "Shahid-Mira ki photo dekhi kya.. ab toh baap bhi banega woh"

Girl 2: "Yes yes so fast na, but so cute he is. Kaash Shahid ki shaadi mere saath hoti, me toh Mira se ek saal badhi bhi hu!" 

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The Internet generation they call us. We are infested more, informed less with the mass of information accessible to us. The youth has become an easy target to load with cool things. So much so that the horrible jargon has entered our daily usage and may be halfway there to be included in the dictionary. Oh wait, there’s the Urban Dictionary for that! Yo, Ssup, Swag, Tee-Hee, Bae are all so cleverly designed to fit into the minds. The latest over abused word is Goals and I have Major Issues with it. It may be just because of the way I am, but no, really think of it..

A highly edited picture (or may be not), a picturesque background, superbly styled outfits or horribly ripped jeans are turning into Goals of the generation.

In a minute of scroll down on my Timeline, I find these content-oriented websites doing stories like

‘XYZ’s Wedding Photoshoot Will Make You Want To Get Married’

‘This Actress’s Vacationing Pictures Will Give You Some Holiday Goals’

‘8 Times This Actress Gave You Fashion Goals’

‘This Couple’s Story Will Give You Relationship Goals’

But Hey, The Fuck They Don’t! I can figure out my own goals.

Since when did we start obsessing our goals to the glamour craving world of the hypocrites. They get paid per month how much you struggle to make in a year. They’ve fashion stylists waiting to work on them, while you wait for the next season sale. They’ve their flight tickets being paid for, while you’ve subscribed to ‘inform me when the prices go down’ in your mails. They’ve marriage at their convenience while you’re still figuring out what is love. And all of them giving you Goals? Well, that escalates way too quickly.

I work in the same entertainment industry, have had some brush up in the glam town but no it is not in my Goals to fake a smile, wear flashy clothes, make people jealous.

What is more disappointing is how we have succumbed to our dreams to someone else’s realities. I haven’t met a single soul who does not want a break, who does not like to travel to exotic places, who will never want to explore the world. All of us make plans in heads or on paper to the destinations we want to step in, but I hope it is not by looking at someone’s bikini pictures on that sea, or snow selfie on a mountain.

How can we be considered as an audience too lethargic to decide our major goals based on these highly superficial pictures? No one thinks about the monetary wastage gone behind? Are we so out of the simple world that glamour defines our goals? Do I really need Parineeti Chopra’s weight loss to get into shape or Divyanka Tripathi’s lehenga to get married?

It is so bloody annoying to have our, yours and mine goals to be defined by others. And then there are people agreeing, sharing, commenting with a caps lock, GOALS (heart-eye emoji) I feel pity for you. Aren’t you’ll also the ones who share Word Porn’s posts of ‘be your own kind of sunshine’ types.

Fuck their set Goals, find your own and not in a manner that people eventually say to you ‘You Give Me Relationship/ Travel/ Fashion Goals.’ 

Whatever happened to affording your own happiness.