I read it somewhere that 'what we think and do today will reflect tomorrow'. This is so true yet we don't keep this in mind.
It's true that we can't always choose how life would be. But many of the things we can decide. Like how we will feel about anything, we can define our perspective and emotions. So, you see it's possible to redefine our lives.
You may think that you can do random things, do whatever you like at a certain age and after a while, you will create order in life or work on reaching your goals. The thing is, you are not alone thinking this. Many of us do think this way and to be honest they end up making their life complex.
Whatever we choose to do today will affect our future for sure. There are two things that affect our future, our work, and our thoughts. If we only work on redefining one thing and ignore the other then you will probably get a different life you never expected.
So, we should broaden our prospects as well as work on improving ourselves. Life doesn't work like we can reshape it wherever we can, the way we want it. It's like a journey where we learn things that reshape our thoughts, we do things that reflect in our future.
Choose wisely what you want to do in life. Focus on your goal. But this doesn't mean you need to stop enjoying life. But remember we should never be driven away by our impulse.
Many of our positive works can go away unnoticed but believe me, they end up adding positive value in life one way or another. So never stop growing and choosing to do the best for you and others!