Being a teenager is a complicated
and complex experience. Not only are there mysterious and frightening changes
in our bodies, but our thoughts and feelings are taking on a new direction.
Even self-perception is slowly changing and we start seeing ourselves in a new
(and not always positive) light.
We say and do things that we don’t
want to, or don’t mean to;
we cannot tell people around us that
we are no longer kids, but we aren’t adults either.
We don’t know how to control
ourselves and focus on the things that used to interest us; or
how to express the waves of emotion
building up inside.
And there is a constant overwhelming
feeling of being alone and not understood.
Sometimes even our best friends
cannot understand how we feel.
There is no one we can talk to, who
can reassure us that what we think and desire and normal and acceptable.
Especially when it comes to sex,
there is a deep sense of guilt, curiosity, and shame that enters our hearts and
minds.
Sex and sexual messages and
experiences are all around us, but we can never really find everything we want
to know about it.
The adults around us say that we
ought not to think about sex or feel sexual till marriage, but the truth is
that many of us are sexual from a very early stage, long before puberty and
adolescence.
We long to find spaces where we can
ask those embarrassing questions without fearing judgement, where we can be
ourselves and talk about the things that interest us, without feeling fear or
shame.
Supposing that on our road to greatness,
we discover that we are not as skilled and we do not get the results that we
expect. What happens then? Do we turn our backs on this osteopathic
stuff that we love so much? Probably not, it would be too costly.
In addition, it would be an admission of failure. In any profession,
most people end up compromising.
So the lesson of this post is
Aspiration is inversely proportional to Compromise; in non-mathematical terms,
they are diametrically opposed, they are antithetical to each other.
As you give up aspiring, you end up
compromising. As you compromise (your standards), you have really stomped
on any spark that was once aspiration.
Sims will have one of eight
aspirations at any given time. The base game does not allow a change of
aspiration after a Sim was created or became a teen.
The University expansion pack allows Sims to change aspiration once after
finishing their sophomore year.
- Babies have no aspiration.
- Grow Up: All toddlers and children have this aspiration, and it cannot be changed without the use of cheats and/or hacks. Growing up involves learning essential life skills and making friends and success at school. As soon as children grow up to become teenagers, the player can choose their aspiration.
- Family: Family Sims will want to have children, and eventually grandchildren, and for those children to excel in their own lives.
- Fortune: Fortune Sims want to earn money, gain promotions, marry a rich Sim, and put their income towards new household items.
- Knowledge: Knowledge Sims want to gain skill points, and to eventually max out skills. They may even want to experience the abnormal, such as ghosts or alien abduction. They are also the only Sims that will gain good memories from changing life state.
- Popularity: (sometimes referred to as Reputation or Fame): Popularity Sims most of all want to accumulate friends and best friends. Parties are also craved by these Sims.
- Romance: Romance Sims want to engage in casual romance, and particularly WooHoo. They are perhaps unique in that their fears are actually wants to most other Sims (marriage, babies etc.)
- Power: (hidden) This aspiration can be obtained by a cheat. It's a combination of Popularity and Fortune (though it is apparently unfinished).
- Pleasure: Pleasure Sims want to have fun, go out, meet new Sims, and engage in romance (though not nearly as much as Romance Sims).
- Grilled Cheese: The wants and fears of Sims with this aspiration mostly have to do with grilled cheese.
- Secondary aspiration: Sims are able to have a second aspiration, but are not required to have one. A Sim with a secondary aspiration will receive wants and fears from both aspirations. The Grilled Cheese aspiration can be selected as a secondary aspiration.
Defunct
With the cheat, boolprop
testingcheatsenabled true players can
find another aspiration, Power. It was apparently an abandoned thought, because it has no
icon and its wants and fears are similar to the Popularity and Fortune
aspiration wants and fears. The "Power" aspiration usually involves
making friends and gaining promotions. However, this aspiration is not possible
to get in any other way, and as such, is defunct. (Furthermore, the aspiration
bar cannot be accessed without a reset process). There was also going to be a
Craft Aspiration, but it was removed early on and cannot be accessed. Now it is
only referred to as unused in the game files, although Creativity is an
aspiration in The Sims 2
for console and The Sims 2 Pets for console.
Game
Boy Advance
Tips
& Tricks
- Most of the wants and fears mentioned apply to different aspirations as well, but less frequently. For example, Family Sims will often have a want to gain a skill point (usually Cooking, Cleaning or Mechanical), and
- Fortune Sims will often want to gain skill points needed for promotion.
- On the other hand, Knowledge Sims may occasionally want to have a baby (especially right after getting married), and often want to buy skill building objects.
- Sims with a secondary aspiration can get wants related to that aspiration.
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