poverty of aspirations

What we achieve is more influenced by our aspirations than our capabilities. Though capabilities play a major role in determining our aspiration, yet it is that of defining limits and not infinitude of our aspirations. This is not only because we always, unfailingly, fail to recognize our capabilities but also because we generally succeed in undermining them and it is more so in times of lows. It is a general weakness, that when we are dejected and dismayed that we pronounce ourselves as absolutely untalented and universally lacking, only to seek comfort in the sheer impossibility of any further decadence of any form in our prevailing condition.

And when we have pronounced ourselves so, absolutely untalented and universally lacking, we cherish plucking every low lying rotten fruit in our journey, for it is all we afford to aspire for. And from that moment onwards, it is not our poverty that makes us poor but the poverty of our aspirations.