Why should goals and deadlines be abolished.

They taught us in school that we always have to have a goal, which is usually followed by a deadline.
For me, it culminated in a graduate school when professors kept suggesting, kindly but forcefully, that I identify my Research Goals and Objectives ASAP. They asked with high-pitched urgency what was it that I wanted to find out in my research paper? And when was that paper going to be submitted??

I didn't have any particular goal for my paper, other than to get the required credits & get out of that not-so-funny institution, but that was not the goal they wanted to hear,  so I had to make up something remotely plausible and write 100 pages about it (but the fieldwork was fun) and was lucky to get away with it. I was discharged and lived happily ever after.

But I developed allergic reaction to Goals, and to Deadlines. If I'm exposed to them too much, I can die. If I ever want to commit suicide, I will do it by deadline exposure.

Honestly, goals are overrated and deadlines are plainly flawed. This spider hanging on the wall in front of me, has he any goal, or a deadline? No. Is he terribly unhappy about not having a goal, or a deadline? As far as I can say, no. He looks pretty happy. (I spend a lot of time in spiders' company so I know.)

It's time someone tells the truth. Deadlines make you crappy and unhappy. They never work.
Deadlines are just wishful thinking that is never fulfilled. This is how a REAL timeline with a deadline looks like.

Do you instinctively hate deadlines? Trust your instincts. There is a reason why deadlines are called "dead" - because they are dead and they kill. They are virtually zombies.

The same with goals. When I wake up in the morning, there is no goal lying on the floor, waiting for me to pick it up and do something about it. The initial state of a day is goal-less. If I really want, I can make up a goal and get busy achieving it, so that I can say "Hey man, I'm so busy," and feel important, but even that self-imposed goal is not real, it's made up! Goals are optional.

The tyranny of goals and deadlines must end!
To help end it, I started this Goals and Deadlines Abolishment Movement. You can support it by buying a cool T-shirt with the campaign logo, either featuring a Zombie Deadline or the Anti-Goal Guy. Both designs are printed on the back of the T-shirt, so you don't discredit yourself too fast.

Your purchase of a T-shirt will help me devote more time to deadline-free and goal-free activities, like lying in the grass and drinking beer while a chicken is perching on my ass and a goat is eating my hat. This will be an enormous step for mankind on its way toward deadline-free world.

※　Correction:  Actually you don't have to buy a T-shirt to support this movement. All you need to do is devote more of your time to a goal-free, deadline-free activity of your choice. That'll be the best support ever.