If you are not going toward specific goals, then you are wandering around. And if you are wandering around purposelessly, you are prone to be directed by external factors around you.

 Instead of putting your resources such as energy, time, and money in making progress toward your goals, you are forced to create unauthentic and fake goals based on your momentary emotions such as jealousy, envy, arrogance, and pride. And instead of making your own way in life, you keep copying everything from others and the result will be a messed up life filled with so many incongruent parts.