Chinese young people's life goals become diversified

A recent survey shows that in today's society, Chinese young people's life goals have become more diversified than before. When young people are asked what they will struggle for, all the 16 possible choices listed in the survey are picked up by someone. Of these 16 choices, 53.5% of the people say their life goal is “to earn money to buy a house and a car for themselves”. In addition to this practical goal, some people pick up their life goal as “working towards the creation of fairness among people and towards the construction of a harmonious society” or “helping the needy”, the China Youth Daily reported.

“I don't want to idle away my life. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to Beijing,” said Wang, one of my friends, who gained his master degree 2 years ago from Wuhan University.

Before he went to Beijing, Wang worked in a medium size hospital as a doctor in Wuhan. The job was stable and the hospital was not far away from his home. He didn't have to work for extra hours and when festivals came, he could even get some extra money. However, he felt the life was boring.

The work was not exciting at all. Everyday in the hospital, Wang had nothing to do except checking on his patients. In February, this year, Wang quitted his job without consulting his parents beforehand. He went to Beijing with all the savings he made during his sixteen months' work. When he arrived in Beijing, he set his new goal as finding a good job. And now he is working as a sales manager, which has nothing to do with his major. But he is satisfied with the challenge, and of course the pay.

I think everybody has his/her own life goals, which will be surely different from people to people. When one doesn't have something, one will work hard to try to get it and that will become one's life goal. If one is poor, one's life goal will be to earn more money; if one doesn't have a diploma, studying hard to get a diploma will become one's life goal; and if one doesn't have love, one's life goal will be to look for it. If one has everything one needs, one will complain that one has no goals to strive for in one's life.

But in fact, everybody will surely find something that is interesting to him/her. Today, some young people who were born in the 1980s have already made a fortune in their life. In addition, there are some other young people have started to manage their own business on the strength of the wealth inherited from their parents. Their stories of success have prompted more young people to work hard in life. These young people who have achieved success in life have set a good example for other young people and prompted them to realize their own values.

The fact that more and more people want to live a better life shows that the society is making progress and people's life goals have become more practical. Let’s just wait and see what would happen to Chinese young generation. After all, they are the hope of our nation’s future.