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If we all have heart-goal-dream-things (as outlined in Paulo Coehlo's book The Alchemist), and we need to pursue them in order to live our lives fully, because if we stray from them too long we will unlearn how to follow our hearts like compasses, what happens to those who forget, or make bad choices, or never had a knack for following directions
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Your goals and aspirations grow and change as you do. I wouldn't want to be the same person I was in high school, or even two years ago, so why should I be consider myself a failure if I didn't achieve the goals I had then?
It's like the hashtag #fuckplanB that was going around twitter last week (started by Amanda Palmer), it's all well and good to get on a high horse and say that the ideal is dropping everything and pursuing your goal, regardless of the consequences, but only people within a certain class and with certain privilege can actually do that. The rest of us need to eat and are not able to move back in with our parents if the shit hits the fan. It also does not take into account that plan A changes, and our lives are always evolving.
Goals and dreams are so important, but focusing solely on them (focusing solely on the future) means that we are blinded to the present. It took me a long time to figure that out- I stood on the shore in Vancouver and was so obsessed with figuring out how to best use the upcoming year that I didn't notice how amazing things were right then. (I gave myself a slap on the face and snapped out of it though, thankfully).
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