What should our goals in life be? Ali Reza Panahian

Parents should be careful not to ruin their children by talking like this.
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About our goals in life, whether it is choosing a job, a lifestyle, or a field to study, what should our goals be?
If we choose our goal correctly, it will give us energy, enjoyment, excitement, strength and increase our speed. These are the spiritual effects. Its effects on our thinking are the same. It helps a person to focus, be attentive, and brings understanding. It sharpens a person’s mind to be able to find the way, and he will find it. The worst way to choose a goal – and most goals are chosen like this - is for people to just think that they don’t want to be miserable! This is the most passive goal one can choose! This is a disaster.
Mothers use this way of talking in many cases. “Study so that you won’t be miserable.” They ruin the child. Sometimes fathers say, “Study so that you won’t be miserable and poor.” This is a passive way of choosing a goal. In fact, this is not choosing a goal. This is escaping. This is not a goal. It is escaping from a series of bad goals. Sometimes choosing big goals is not being unrealistic or unwise. Actually, it’s a very wise thing to do.
For example, a nation that only wants to save itself is wretched. Your goal should be to help for the issue of Hijab in France. If this is your goal [and not just for your own nation], you’ll be successful here too. As long as we are just thinking about making a car for our own country, we will definitely not become a [good] carmaker. But if we wish to make a car that can compete with international carmakers, that is when we may be able to make a motorcycle or a bike!
Honorable filmmakers, do not make films or TV serials for just Iranians anymore. I plead you. If you want to do something for religion, the Revolution and humanity, only make movies for international audiences. Make a film in their language that they can understand. We’ll watch it too. If you tell a student, “Read and learn these things well so that you can act upon them,” you have made him wretched. You should say, “Read and learn these things well since you have to change all of them. Be creative!” From the beginning, say for being creative. Not imitation, not obedience, not repetition. Down with repetition! Down with stopping!
This is a very bad custom to only talk against evils. We should also call out against being satisfied with a little goodness too. You chose a small goal. Now you’ve chosen a bigger goal. That’s better. Are you willing to help prepare for the reappearance of the Savior? Get up!