My Aspiration

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” 
― Kahlil Gibran

.Many of us believe that Success in life depends upon the amount of time we spend shedding sweats, the amount of time we remain awake while the entire world is asleep and the number of times we rise when each time we stumble and fall down. Success, they say, is born to those who are tired but tirelessly struggle to rest only when they get what they want. However, successful people are not only those are industrious and workaholic.  Amid the billions of people existing in the world, they say, there are millions who want to write their own fate, yet mortals are not amongst those who can do this: Only the almighty can.

I come from a middle class family where the family unit has begun to split. It had multiplied in the beginning and now it is getting divided into different unit. As fate wished, gradually is subtracting. I belong to family where luck and fortune has abandoned .I live life where expectations are begging the alms of my aspirations. My aspiration, as an old adage goes, is like ‘swallowing a bone according to the size of my throat’. Unlike many who have greater ambition and aspiration I aspire for something my poor brain think is achievable. Not even in my dream can I look for something I feel big. In contrary Michelangelo Buonarroti says,’the greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” 

Mundane as my life is, I have a mundane  aspiration.Anatole France,in his introductory speech at session of the Academic Franaise in December 24, 1896 maintained, “to accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe”. I don’t know if it appears appealing to the rest of the world but this is something I aspire for. Day in day out I act on it with a belief that one day or the other I shall achieve my dream. Since the childhood to this day, I have been chasing the dream of getting a good and reliable job so that the entire hopes of my parents and the consistent efforts see justice. Mine is a society where everybody believes that getting into the government job is paying for the hard work and fulfilling the hopes of our parents. To get a job in public sector is to expect hearing people talk good of us. Fame, name and status are born out of government job. To achieve this dream is not a piece of cake. The competition is stiff. One has to get through the RCSCE(Royal Civil Service Commission Examination).To get through this I have to work extra hard.

Johann Wolfgang quoted “The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.” Though the steps are tougher, yet I never have stopped moving. No matter if I have to travel on the paved road or on the stony path, at the end of the day, I will make sure I am on track to my fulfilling my aspiration. Mike Norton in White Mountain says, “the true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.” Therefore, my efforts are relentless and aspiration still burning like candle. They say, we get luckier as we work harder but what fate has in stored for me, I don’t know. I will work as though I could alone write my fate. Thus this is what I aspire for.

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