i don't really have the habit of writing down new year's resolutions or even making them because 1. it seems like i forget about them quickly, 2. i probably never get around to trying to consciously achieving them, 3. i don't know when a goal is 'reasonable' and when it is 'too easy', 4. my goals seem to change every now and then and 5. i usually don't feel like confining myself to doing certain things for the rest of the year. I think I just make do with a nebulous idea of approximately what would be nice to accomplish this year and don't bother writing it down.
Any how, today was a no-ubc day and went out to get some stuff done that somehow all had some relations to my ambiguous webs of goals now that I think about it. Firstly, I went 'gym-shopping' (Fitness World turns out to be too expensive so I think I will go to the Port Moody Rec Centre...). I also dropped by the travel centre to find out if there's any where I can go for olympic break and picked up some information on Europe. I also went to TD and applied for my very first visa card (believe it or not). I've always postponed this because 1. just too lazy to drop by the bank for longer than 5 minutes and 2. i don't trust myself with plastic methods of payment. But i think I am now 'old enough' to be trusted with this mechanism and hopefully, when I do find a career (fingers crossed) this would not be too big of a problem.
I think that just about sums up a few of my goals this year.
Couple days ago, I was reading 明報 and read an article by 王貽興 about writing and composition. He says that writing and composition is not so much just about conveying information to others, but also about getting to know oneself more. He gave the example of 我的志願: writing about our future ambitions might not be able to help us figure out what we really want to do in the future because we always tend to stick with the cliches (doctors, teachers, lawyers...). He said that maybe if we went the reverse (i.e. write about what you don't what to do), we might be able to find out more about what we do what to do.
I thought that was a great idea, so from now on, I will try to include a small paragraph, whenever I can, of a job that i don't want to do and see if I can get a clearer picture of what I do want to be.
What I Don't Want To Be: Accountant.
I found this out when I was in grade 11 actually when I worked a student-work term at an accounting firm. I don't think I will be very excited about a job where I deal with numbers from 9-5 on a daily basis especially when it is so detail orientated. And I think, for me, I need to do something where I feel that it contributes to something...something that is important to humanity or at least to the general wellbeing of society. I need to feel accomplished and receive some sort of recognition about the contribution that I am making other than monetary reward (which I think accountants get a lot of). Accountants are important people no doubt but not in the sense where they are making tangible improvements to people's lives. Accounting is absolutely not the job for me.
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