ASPIRATIONS
Let them lead you to design a life for an upward connotation.
Nestled away in Sunshine are always one’s highest aspiration.
To reach them, look up with belief and determination and follow where they lead.
Let the Sunlight Glimmer through the dense forest of clouds.
Let the Sunshine embellish the magnificent sky and make everything shine — the Lake and the Trees.
Stretch your Heart, Mind, and Soul and enjoy the Sunshine as you build your kingdom with beauty and love.
What are Aspirations?
Our aspirations are the clean air we breathe on a heavily polluted day. With a whiff of freshness, they need to be our reflection, showing us what we need and are capable of. We should always know when to balance real aspirations and unlikely ones as those which were unmet were unrealistic at the start. These take a toll on our well-being and thus many people after either their own bitter experience or hearing about someone’s skip aspiring altogether. The reason they do so is that they feel that the risk weighs more than the success to achieve what they aspire.
However, they need to know that to move on in an upward positive stride in life it is best to chase one’s aspirations after naming them rather than following them hastily.
Because when the aspirations have a dedicated place, and the aspirer their understanding, the aspirations act as a lifeguard saving the swimmer from drowning in despair.
Are aspirations different from ambitions and goals?
By now we know that aspiration is a strong hope, dream, or goal but have we ever thought if there is a difference between aspiration, goals, and ambitions despite them being so similar. If we look up their meanings in a thesaurus or do a google search, it will show them as synonyms. When we even use a #goal or #ambition or #aspiration on a social media platform, all will pop up. It’s because the main common idea behind each is the same–the yearning.
How do Aspirations, Goals, And Ambitions compare keeping in mind their similarities and differences?
- Aspirations and Goals have similarities and differences. Do you know that mostly Goals spring up from aspirations, making them similar? The difference comes up when we consider goals as the stepping stones to reach our aspirations. For example, I wish to have a beach body by next summer and for that, I shall start a wellness plan. Here my wish is my aspiration — a long-termed one, whereas my wellness plan is the goal which I need to reach my aspiration.
- Aspirations and Ambitions again walk on the same route, with that being their similarity, but there is a logical difference as aspirations move in a direction whereas ambitions are mostly directionless. For example, I aspire to be a best-selling writer one day and that’s my direction. Now coming to my ambition, it’s a task I have taken up and wish to fulfill, but how?… that’s where the direction lacks. Here being the ambitious person I am, I decide at the drop of a hat to do tough things. So here again the ambition is like the vehicle we ride in to reach our destination–our aspiration.
- Goals are actions, Aspirations actionless, and Ambitions action-packed and on the go always. So all the three go hand in hand very well, but can they function by themselves? The only one who can exist with no action or effort is Aspiration because it’s an onetime hope and that stays till we work on achieving. it. To achieve it all we need is ambition and which because of its active nature can make us reach the aspiration if wished. And moving on when we have an aspiration, a little weak one and then the goal that gave birth to this aspiration, will be like a fairy tale. Just something we wish for to happen but doesn’t because we are missing the action–the ambition for that push. So if we aspire to reach a goal with no Ambition, we will lose our way because here the ambitions act as the navigator for that route.
I hope you all enjoyed this read and if it makes a difference to even one person, I will consider myself blessed because my aspiration at Medium is to Inspire the readers with my words.
In “Aspirations”, the first few metaphorical lines I wrote quite some time ago. So going through them today, I thought, why don’t I write on this subject and that’s how it all started …
Well, this isn’t the end as I have another one in continuity coming up soon next week where I shall talk about the varied meanings of Aspirations, its necessity and the effects -positive or negative, talk about your aspiration and lastly how to find aspiration in our life in case you lose the way.
©️ Geetika Sethi June 2020
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