where are you headed?

I remember asking this question one time to a person in our youth group. He got up as we were having a discussion at a restaurant. At that moment in time the question came to my mind about his future, so I blurted out, "where are you headed?". He looked at me kind of funny and said, "I am going to the bathroom, is that OK?".
You see the question I asked what not where he was headed right now, but where he was headed to? In the whole scheme of things, where are you headed?
Too many times when we are asked that question we respond like my friend did with the destination that we have in our sights right now. The short term destination. But I have found that the really successful people in life don't think in terms of short term destinations, but in long term destinations. Short sighted people look at short term solutions, short term destinations and short term dreams. But long term thinkers dream better solutions, better destinations and better dreams, because they are usually bigger, take longer to get there, and solve problems to an even greater degree.
So I will ask you, where are you headed? And don't say to the bathroom...