Life is beautiful

Social goal setting

I was reading about the goals that AjayJ, one of my school pal, has set for himself. I was very happy to read his blog. I too believe in setting targets and achieving them and hence appreciate people who do it.

One interesting thing that his blog did was to provoke my thoughts about setting "Social goals". When the target setting moves from "for self" to "for society" then it takes a very different form. It's very subtle. Though, prima facie it may seem to be very similar, it indeed has dramatically different consequences. At the end of the day the process of goal setting is the same. Though it is for the society, it's again for one's own self and in the truest sense for fulfilling one's own desire and the feeding the self concept with the reasons to be reckoned with. Nevertheless, while actually trying to action it, it takes a deeper meaning which transforms a vision for oneself into a cause for the masses. I see this happening for most of us in some form or the other. Without we realizing it, we are forming opinions about the social environment, defining what we collectively want and slowly making it a reality. Yes, we are transforming our environment, our society without our knowledge. Each one of us is doing it as we want to be a part of the society. It is quite natural and there is nothing wrong in it.

What if we could collectively control the social environment to make it better? What an idea. Then the question is, what is meant by "better"? For the answer, we need to understand or even (re)define "What a good society looks like".

Interesting thoughts. These will need time and focus but I will surely try and find the answers.

posted by Mahendra @ 7:47 PM