More than the simple steps up the ladder to form habits milestones are much more significant steps. In fact, creating positive milestones are more like events with significant goals accomplished. The reason one would call a point to mark as extremely meaningful is because you know that once reached, there is no turning back from there. But here is a conundrum: is this milestone a positive one or a negative milestone in your life?
A Monument Marking A Milestone to Love and Humanity
Moving Forward
Events are also markers at certain points in time. But life moves forward regularly or typically linearly using time. These milestones mark what we have accomplished, what has happened, what we’ve lived through or perhaps a significant event at a point in history. Look at the historical records and you’ll see that there are many events and things that have happened, each with a significant meaning attached.
But then attached meanings can be positively happy events of negatively charged depending on what it meant to our psyche.
Visit the Great Wall of China or the Pyramids of the Incas and you may attach a powerful feeling of human progress to it. As a builder, you may be inspired to achieve greater heights in your search for the greatest building of our time. However, a social historian may consider the human cost of slavery and suffering these mega historical projects may have caused. He feels so bad about it that he swears never to allow such suffering ever to be plagued upon mankind again.
Those were milestones in history that can still affect the people of today, as we all move forward to our next endeavours or goals. It is a dedicated choice we all make.
Stuck on a Milestone
The above describes people who actually move on regardless of their take on the milestones of humanity. Kudos to them. There are many, in fact most, who do little or nothing. They are the ones who after creating a milestone in their lives, often sit still and refuse to move. They may remain there out of fear of what may come after. They live in a box and wait till the bull dozers come and flatten their abode and wonder what happened.
Some people have just experience a terrible disaster and simply sit and wail woe is me. While we may allow some lamenting, still they must get off their behinds and do something. In fact, after a disaster like the Japanese Tsunami, there will come many heroes in society who will come out and offer their ultimate services. They are the examples for the rest to follow. Those who continue to remain helpless after a milestone are said to be stuck for inaction.
Why Create Positive Milestones
We have a Will that can be as indomitable as one wish. Milestones can be used as a marker in our past perhaps from a happy event like a graduation. Then to build it into a far bigger positive, we expand it to the utmost that we can. The greater the happiness we generate from the growth of events, the more we will want to create positive milestones to build upon. And then it follows some more. Great things can come from that. In fact, you become the example that others will follow. Success breeds success.
Alternatively, if this same graduate found work in his field made him unhappy his subsequent course of action may have turned him to another route. It may work out, it may not. It all depends on what he is experiencing. But he has a choice to redirect his energy to create another milestone to his liking.
History is full of examples of great milestones. They may be from antiquity itself in the form of structures or personalities, written into historical tomes. There are far more unread and untold milestones in life that has been created and forgotten by human minds. However, if you believe, actually, know that the sum experience of the human thoughts and experiences are not lost, but recorded as an experience through time, then understand that the more you create, the more you will want to create.
That’s what is so interesting about creating milestones. The more positive you are the more significant will be your milestone. The more significant the milestone the greater will be your achievements. The greater those achievements, the greater will be the energy of those achievements which will power the creativity of this human existence. Ultimately, milestones become monuments.
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