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Ideal vs. Aspiration | Ideal Says: I Dare to Think, Aspiration Says: You Are Just Daydreaming, I Am the Direction

Confusion is a problem that everyone encounters, especially during the best years of youth, when everyone faces too many life choices. However, because of lack of knowledge and experience, we are discarded at crossroads due to life's cruelty.

Life can be re-chosen at any time

For young people, this is a very cruel thing.

Some say that in a person's life, 20-30 years are the choice period, and the rest of life is to pay for these 10 years of choices. Whether good or bad, it's just a choice, and there's nothing to do about it.



Carefully consider this statement, and you will find some problems. For example, Grandma Mo Shi was only 80 years old before she decided to start painting; Qi Baishi first did carpentry and then painted, and also studied seal cutting; Wang Dejun switched from acting to 'living sculpture' and then to film acting, constantly making choices.

I tell you, life can be re-done at any time, you don't need to use the rest of your life to regret your young choicesPaying the bill

It's not scary to know what you want, and it's not scary to re-make choices halfway through.


It's scary that you don't know what you want, and you don't even know what you like. We are always searching for what we want to do in life, and when we find the way out, we waste half our lives, and everything seems to be too late.


It's not scary to re-make choices, it's scary that you don't know what you want, and you don't even know what you like.After graduating from university, Zhou Zhou chose a stable job as an accountant. In fact, she didn't like this job.But because she had no skills, she didn't know what to do, so she just took a job first.

In terms of career, as long as you master a skill, you can get into an accounting firm—for a woman, this is already considered a success; in terms of marriage, she found a husband with a house and a car, and her life seemed to be approaching happiness.

Zhou Zhou's parents didn't have high expectations for her, they just hoped she would continue her accounting work and get married and have children. But Zhou Zhou didn't feel satisfied with their arrangements, she felt that she was still young and wanted to do something different, she couldn't waste her youth. As for marriage and having children, she thought that when she felt lonely, she would find a man to marry and have children.

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But what counts as something different? Zhou Zhou consulted her surroundings and asked again and again, but she couldn't get a definitive answer. Everyone just told her: 'Ask your heart, your heart knows what you want.'


If everyone knew what they really wanted, there would be no 'confusion' at all. So, when you don't know what you want, asking your heart won't work.


Who doesn't have confusion in their life? Only those who don't know what they want.

Because only when you have no skillsWhen you don't know what you want, there's another answer:

Keep trying until you find what you like to do.

In fact, this seemingly correct answer doesn't bring you the results you want.

Any skill has layers, only those with high levels can engage in deep 'dialogue' with it, and only then can they experience the joy of it. Because when we first taste the 'flavor' of a thing, it's often bitter.

Little Ya liked to write, when she first tried writing, she was happy, but her work was not published, so she gave up decisively. She learned street dance, but when an action needed to be practiced hundreds of times, she found dancing boring and gave up. She liked to paint, but after taking a class and conducting systematic training, the monotonous training made her nearly collapse...

'Didn't I do what I liked? Or didn't I think about what I liked to do?' Little Ya asked herself.Finally, Little Ya confirmed her path—no matter what she did, she would do it with a hobby or playfulness, and she firmly refused to make it a professional one, because she was afraid of hardship. So, when people ask me what I want, I'll say:


Keep persisting, keep improving the level of things, experience the joy of high-level things.


Keep persisting, find your heart's direction, then find a skill to train

Keep our momentumWriting, painting, dancing, accounting—they're all essentially different skills, and the process of learning all skills is the same. Everyone starts with rules, and then trains these skills...

As long as you can persevere in one thing, other skills will also be easier to break through. This is why some people have become 'multi-faceted young people'—the important reason they succeeded is that even if their lives have many choices, they can still succeed. However, we only saw their talent in writing, painting, seal cutting, and performing, we ignored the momentum behind them.

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Many say that if you choose a thing, you must stick with it for a lifetime, only persistence can succeed.So, only by recognizing the momentum behind a thing can we promote it steadily and quietly.

Remember:We should persist in momentum, find your heart's direction


We should persist in momentum


As long as you don't have a sense of security, people will always wobble.

As long as you don't have a sense of security, people will always wobble.

A goal is a cure for lack of security

To cure the 'disease' of lack of security, or to find what you really want to do, you need to have a goal.

A goal is not necessarily the 'ideal' we often say. The difference between the two is that a goal is born from the heart, it's the direction your heart wants to go; an ideal is also born from the heart, but it's just 'thought about'.

Parents and teachers tell us to set goals when we're young, they want us to find the place we yearn for.

Because with a goal, even if you don't work in this industry for your whole life, it will still indirectly influence your life.

Writers like Three Mo's childhood goal was to be a scavenger, teachers thought her goal was not ambitious enough, so they denied it. This is what Three Mo wanted, so later no matter where she went and encountered interesting small items, she would collect them home.

For Three Mo, scavenging wasn't picking up garbage, it was an artistic processing of nature. She wasn't a professional scavenger, but scavenging accompanied her throughout her life.


A goal will indirectly influence your life


Some people may not have worked in this industry for their whole life, but they could still influence their lives indirectly.

If you don't have a sense of security, you will always wobble.

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