Hello and welcome in this story, I am going to talk about the topic which is about to define who you are, who you want to be and which describe you and the reason of your life as having some dreams, goals and aims to achieve are necessary to live your life because it describes and defines you and your personality and without these important factors the life is just incomplete and life can never be lived without any meaning or reason. In this story I am going to talk about it as I also face this thing in my life and that time period when I was just totally out of mind that, I don’t know what to do and what not to do. Life become very much easy when I found out about my dreams, goals and aims which I need to achieve.
Telling about myself is never be an easy thing for me in my earlier life and talking about yourself is not only about telling your name and your hobbies but to describe yourself and telling who you are and what do you want to do in your life. But my earlier life was simply meaningless for me because at that time I just don’t know what I wanted to do in my life and what were my dreams, my goals and aims and I used to feel very insecure because of that and always thought how would I am going to live my life as I knew that I was growing that is why I need to find the meaning of my life. I am glad that now I know what are my dreams, my goals and aims are and who I am.
Some of us often confused when anyone asks us about ourselves that who we are and what do we do? As these types of questions are very difficult for some people including me but If we don’t know our weaknesses and our strengths, how can we described ourselves and how can we know that what is the meaning of our lives which proves that we are living meaninglessly without any aim, any goal and without having in our dreams in our eyes to see come true.
Not having any dreams or not having any goals and aims in your life feels like that walking in a lost way where we don’t know our way would lead us. This is the reason that everyone should live for some reason. “To see dreams with ‘EYES WIDE OPEN’ does not mean that those dreams would always be dreams in fact those should become reality and converting those dreams to reality is your meaning of life and the reason you are living and is the reason you are breathing.” The vision and mission of your life should be defined by you through which you can find the reason and meaning of your life.
Life is not given to anyone just for roaming and walking here and there actually life is a gift for which you need to define your dreams, goals and aims to and life is given because of certain reasons and all of us need to find the true meaning of our lives. I, you and we all have some dreams which we want to achieve and we also have some reasons to live and in order to find what can we do and what we want to could help us found the meaning of our life.
We can define ourselves by telling what we think, our personality is described by our thoughts and by our dreams. The vision and mission which lead us to our career and described our goals and aims. We are defined by what the challenges and difficulties we go through and the fears which we overcome all of these struggles which we suffer help us to fulfil our dreams. We know our dreams and we will fulfil our dreams with our effort and hard work.
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Why We Imagine the Worst-Case Scenario
It started with a text message that never came. My boyfriend had said he'd call me after his interview. It was 6 p.m., then 7 p.m., then 8 p.m. By 9 p.m., I'd convinced myself he was dead. Not just hurt—dead. Car accident. Mugging gone wrong. Sudden brain aneurysm. I'd already mentally planned his funeral, imagined telling his parents, and pictured myself in black at the cemetery when my phone finally buzzed. "Sorry babe! Interview ran long, then grabbed drinks with the team. How was your day?" I stared at the message, my heart still hammering, hands still shaking. Three hours I'd spent in hell. Three hours of vivid, terrible scenarios playing on loop in my mind. And for what? He'd been fine. Happy, even. That's when I realized: my brain wasn't protecting me. It was torturing me. The Catastrophe Factory I've been a catastrophic thinker for as long as I can remember. Show me any situation, and I'll show you seventeen ways it could end in disaster. A friend doesn't text back? They've decided they hate me and are ghosting me forever. A slight headache? Definitely a brain tumor. My boss wants to "chat"? I'm getting fired, losing my apartment, and will end up homeless. Turbulence on a plane? We're going down, and I've already written my last words to my family in my head. It's exhausting. Every day is a mental obstacle course of imagined tragedies that never materialize. And yet, I can't stop. My brain insists on preparing for the worst, as if anticipating disaster will somehow prevent it. The Genetics of Worry My therapist once asked me, "Where did you learn to think this way?" The answer came immediately: my mother. Growing up, every minor inconvenience was treated like a catastrophe. If my dad was ten minutes late coming home, my mother would pace the kitchen, convinced he'd been in an accident. If I had a cough, she'd keep me home from school, certain it would turn into pneumonia. If the phone rang after 9 p.m., she'd answer it with a trembling voice, already bracing for bad news. I absorbed her anxiety like a sponge. I learned that the world was dangerous, that disaster lurked around every corner, and that the best way to protect yourself was to imagine every terrible possibility before it happened. The logic was twisted but compelling: if I could predict the worst, maybe I could prevent it. Or at least, I wouldn't be blindsided by it. But all I really learned was how to suffer twice—once in my imagination and once if it actually happened. The Illusion of Control Here's what I've come to understand about catastrophic thinking: it's not really about the future. It's about control. When life feels uncertain or chaotic, our brains scramble for a sense of agency. We can't control whether bad things happen, but we can control our mental preparation for them. Catastrophizing becomes a security blanket—uncomfortable, but familiar. I noticed this pattern clearly during the pandemic. While the world was genuinely scary, my catastrophic thinking went into overdrive. I wasn't just worried about getting sick; I was planning for economic collapse, societal breakdown, and the end of civilization as we knew it. My therapist pointed out something crucial: "You're so busy preparing for the worst that you're missing the present moment entirely. And ironically, all this mental preparation doesn't actually help you handle real problems when they arise." She was right. When actual challenges came—losing my job, my grandmother's death, a real health scare—all my catastrophic preparation was useless. The scenarios I'd imagined were never quite right, and the energy I'd spent worrying could have been spent living. The Brain's Ancient Wiring There's a reason catastrophic thinking is so common: evolution. Our ancestors who imagined the worst—who saw every rustling bush as a potential predator—were more likely to survive than the optimists who assumed everything was fine. Anxiety kept them alive. Vigilance was rewarded. But here's the problem: our brains haven't caught up to modern life. We're still operating with software designed for life-or-death situations, applying it to emails, traffic, and social media. That rustling bush is now an unanswered text. That potential predator is now a cryptic comment from our boss. Our amygdala—the brain's alarm system—can't tell the difference between actual danger and imagined threats. So it treats everything like an emergency.
By Ameer Moavia7 days ago in Psyche
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