Spotify raising subscription cost again and why goals are abstractly important to me.

Tue, 7 Oct 2025

Got an email from Spotify, they raised their subscription plan cost from 17.99Eur to 21.99Eur. That's like 48Eur a year more. Considering that I highly doubt that any artist on the platform will benefit from this it's kind of shit..
Yet I will probably keep using Spotify since I use it nearly 24/7 and no alternative is looking good to me at all. I guess I will bow down to big corp one more time..
Fuck capitalism.

On another note:
This morning I thought about why having dreams, wishes, goals is so important, besides the obvious things like motivation or having a guideline through life.
I am talking specifically about these goals that seem far away, maybe still a bit hazy or unsure but are always there.
For me one of the biggest benefits seems to be to be able to think how life would be different when I would reach these goals. To think how I might change or think about other goals. And this process makes me in turn think about my current situation and the dreams and goals I have fulfilled and how they have changed me or my view on things.
I am unsure if this makes much sense to anyone reading this, but this act of self reflection feels incredibly good and rewarding. I often forget that I have indeed achieved nice and great things in life, like making it out of school, getting over a shit relationship, finding a stable job at a time where I lost hope on the world, getting into product management by sheer will and connections alone, finding my partner of now 6.5 years..
I often forget about these great things, about how I got there and how they changed me. Even the smaller achievements or dreams.
But when I remember them I also remember how I can reach other dreams as well, how I can actually improve.
I can't exactly pinpoint why but this entire process makes me feel nice, even if there is a lot of negativity associated with some goals and achievements for me.
I suck at talking about feelings, ideas, thoughts, so I doubt this makes sense to a lot of people, but I wanted to try and share it.

After all this is kind of what I envisioned a blog of mine would be like 15 years ago..

Cheers <3