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== Daily Aspiration ==
Sims can fill the bar by fulfilling [[Wants and Fears|wants]], but fulfilling fears decreases the aspiration bar. In addition, a Sim's daily aspiration bar will decrease gradually over time, unless he or she is sleeping, meditating, or at [[Career|work]] or [[school]]. Also, the aspiration bar does not appear to decrease while the Sim is in [[Class performance#Class|class]]{{vgversion|TS2:U}}. In general, the higher a Sim's aspiration level is, the more quickly it will decay. Learning the [[Life skills#The Sims 2: Apartment Life|Lifelong Happiness]]{{vgversion|TS2:AL}} life skill will reduce the rate at which the aspiration bar decays.
Learning the [[Life skills#The Sims 2: Apartment Life|Lifelong Happiness]]{{vgversion|TS2:AL}} life skill will reduce the rate at which the aspiration bar decays.
The aspiration bar has a finite capacity, which increases as the Sim ages.
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When the daily aspiration bar stays too low for too long, the Sim will perform [[Aspiration failure#Desperations|desperate actions]]. If it hits bottom, the [[Therapist|Sim Shrink]] will come to heal the Sim, and the aspiration bar will rise a little bit. Until ''[[FreeTime]]'', accomplishing a Lifetime Want gives a Sim [[Perma-platinum]] status, in which the Sim's bar will remain at platinummaximum until he or she [[death|dies]]. With ''FreeTime'', fulfilling a Lifetime Want boostswould reportedly boost the bar to platinum, and causescause it to decay very slowly.<ref>The Ashigh longaspiration asvalue (25,000) of Lifetime Wants ensures that they will fill the Simaspiration occasionallybar fulfillsregardless someof wantsits andlevel.</ref> avoidsIn majorpractice, many Lifetime fearsWants, heeven orthose shefor may[[Career betracks#FreeTime ablecareers|''FreeTime'' careers]], still refer to maintainthe Sim receiving perma-platinum, aspirationand indefinitelyit appears that fulfilling Lifetime Wants still grants it.
When viewing a Sim in [[SimPE]]'s Sim Browser, the level of his or her aspiration bar is shown by two scales. One, labeled "Blized", shows the current level of the aspiration bar, and runs from 0 to 1200. For toddlers, children, teens, and adults, it shows one-tenth of the Sim's current aspiration score. The other, labeled "Current", appears to reflect how long the bar will remain at its current level, and runs from 0 to 100. AIt Simwill whobe hasat attained100 [[Perma-platinum]]if willthe havebar scoresis ofat 1200maximum, and 100drops as the bar drops, but does not appear to be a percentage. ThisBeing able to view these scores is useful because a Sim's aspiration bar will occasionally be reset to a low green level when he or she is moved into a new lot, even if he or she had attained Perma-platinum. If this happens, the player can use SimPE to reset the Sim's aspiration level.
== Lifetime Aspiration ==
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