GOAL V/S AIM

I find people behaving strangely when it comes to comment on what they exactly want to do. A similar question I too faced. What is aim in life? Then I pondered to find the answer to this. I asked many people the same question "whats their aim in life?" Then I got the reply.. I want to be a successful manager, Successful engineer, successful entrepreneur. Few said to be a man of values and some to be what their parents want. But then a second question striked me and I fired it on them.. “What is their goal in life?”. Many ended up saying these r invariant and pretty similar. So whats their aim, is their goal too!!
But I gave it a second thought to discover this: goal is what we “ACHIEVE” . Achieve for others sake and to fulfill ours as well as others need. But aim is solely our property, a cherished dream of our ability, will and intellect. And aim is what we “ACOMPLISH”. Aim usually not of any material significance. Goal pays us back wealth and admiration. But aim gives us satisfaction and fame. Goal is achieved working “selflessly” with a “selfish motive”. Aim is accomplished working “self concentrated” with a “selfless motive”. Don’t get foxed let me clear my point with an example.
Some one sees a coconut tree with coconuts every season. He takes it the way he want and never likes the fruits being wasted . So he decided to utilize it. The he finds two purposes: 1) To reach the height so that he can do what he wanted with the coconut. 2) To utilize the coconut. The first point becomes his goal. And the second point is his aim. He uses ladder or he climbs up the tree… or may find many other ways to reach the same place, same height. That’s what we aspire and target to achieve the “GOAL”. Then we give a bit more to it to accomplish our intention, our “AIM”. So GOAL can be defined as “ The platform we build or aspire for in life, on which we can accomplish our aim.” And aim is what we accomplish on that platform. But pity is that many never have anything called a aim.. all they remain busy for is the goal. Something like we waste the whole day deciding which train to board, when to start and how to start never knowing why we board the train and where we intend to go!!!!

Lets have an aim a purpose to add value to the society and enhance the standard of like lets start living for ourselves. Lets have an AIm.