Ambition

ASSALAMU`ALAIKUM WARAHMATULLAH

Rise and shine; hello fellow readers! How's today; is it great? Ah, with blazing sunshine and cold air, this benign day can't get any better. Seriously. No joke. 

*clearing throat*

After a satiating breakfast, bet you're excited to know today's topic, no? I'm going to be a bit psychoanalytic today, trying to discuss something of a psychology. More or less. Today, we're going to talk about who we really are and how does ambition is defined and how does it reflect you. Sounds incoherent, wait until you read the rest. If you're not interested, I'm sorry for you. You may pack your stuff and get moving.

You are your ambition and your ambition is a reaction

The definition of 'me' varies across cultures, religions, preferences, motivations and inspirations. It also is different if we are to look from the purest sense of self-esteem and egocentricity. Believe it or not, all things that are revolving around us do affect our 'me' definition. Let me help you with this, with a simple analogy:

"There's this boy. He lives in a bad neighbourhood, where snatch-theft, robbery, and drug abuse are norm. Where rapists and burglars are stars and prostitution is-for God sake-a matter of divinely erotic achievement methodology (well, I'm quite good in describing 'bad' thing. If you know what I mean). This boy hates all these moral defects and is dreaming to be a cop. He wants to end all these moral ills."

There you have it. By looking at things (which, in children psychology coined as stimuli) around him, he submits himself into some kind of a reaction towards the said stimuli. If in Physics we learned Newton's Second Law of Action and Reaction; if the conditions are right and efficient (no, it's not a misnomer. Efficient is the word, not sufficient), then this boy will grow up as someone who will purify the neighbourhood. You can imagine asking him the question: "What are you if you're a grown up?". Quite definitively and undoubtedly, he'd say: "Police!". Therefore, he's defined himself as police. His 'me' is cop.

Such strong-willed one is, he's still a failee (it's a made up word) when it comes to determining ambition. Ambition is not genetically inherent, nor does it exist selectively (though we couldn't argue talent is a result of genetic chaos). We can choose to be dreamless. We can choose to be whatever we want to be. And "what we can be" is vastly influenced by our world view, per se, reaction towards things that revolve over us.   Ambition is nonetheless our reaction towards the world.

P/S: BTW, what a coincidence, this post is. I was (and am) trying to finish my assignment: 'Factors affecting children's development', and am still trying to find points. Then, came this.