Ambition

What is your Ambition?

This was the common question in my school. Starting of every academic year or when ever a new teacher takes over the class.

This question followed me since I did not know what is the meaning of Ambition, till I got to know what is an Ambition.

I do not remember what was my answer to those questions. But I believe they were changing year on year. Time to time. Sometimes Doctor, sometimes police, sometimes army man, sometimes engineer. And really for a while wanted to be an actor(should be on my adolescent age, to do romance with heroines :)). 

Later I found that, All of them was because of the craze. My external environment's impact on me.
It was easy for them to ask what was my Ambition, but they did not taught me, how to set one.


Not just me, it was a common feeling among my classmates. Few had their family run business so they used to stick to that when they answer (though today they are not into that business)


When we step back and think about it, apart from education there needs to be an outside thought to set an ambition. Usually, this is not an easy task. Parents have their vision and mission for their heirs. Which happened in my case too... Engineering was their decision, computers were my liking, hence I did Computer Science & Eng (thank god I completed it ;))


Setting an ambition could be of many type, fantasy oriented, passion oriented, adventure oriented, and very common money oriented. We all target this last type, since we learned that from our parents. We strongly trust that education and earning degrees is the only way reach there.[which do not teach me what is an ambition]

Very few consider the other types. How many of  you have thought of becoming a swimming champion? how many of you thought of becoming a table tennis champion? (most of us believe that cricket is the only game in the world) A professional photographer? An economist? A social activist?


You can ask me, we have lot of people in that field even now. But were they, their original ambitions? We all travel in the river of LIFE like a LOG of wood. No Control!


All of a sudden why this thought?


At least our next generations should know what is their ambition. Today's young parents, YOU - teach them what is it and how to set it. [even now if you do not have an ambition. Sorry I cant help ;)]


Let them set their own ambition, create small, reachable goals. Teach them to have a plan B always, towards the goal (confined to legal and ethics)