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Goethe Uni Journal

 

That’s what our students think about life and goals….

 

Many students, who I know spent lots of  time on their studies with the goal to get a certificate and establish oneself in working life. Everyone has his own aims and if an aim is reached, the next aim isn’t so far away. It’s like on a ladder, as soon as you reach one step you feel a need to get higher, to wherever that is.

All my friends have certain plans. One friend always asks me, when will you get married.

You see, everyone has different plans for life, which he wants to reach. But remember there are some people, who became politicians…. And I just want to say….the higher you climb, the deeper you can fall. Think about Wulff (Germanys last president) or the one who plagiarized his Phd Thesis.

Sometimes in order to keep the balance on the ladder you have to step back, or go one step down…

when you get sick, I think your health is more important than your career.

I also ask myself if the homeless-man outside of the Juridicum still has or even ever had aims in his life, which he wants or wanted to reach.

 

Lara, 24 years, studies germanistic and anglistic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I was a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

Abraham Lincoln

 

 

“If you want a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

Albert Einstein

 

 

“The secret of success is constituency of purpose.”

Benjamin Disraeli

 

 

“The journey is the reward.”

Confucius