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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

What Is Your Ambition?

I was conversing with my students yesterday and I asked them the above qn. I was pleasantly surprised to hear that they already have something in mind. Most people their age do not know what they want to become in future. I was and am still one of them.

I have never been able to answer questions like "what is your ambition?", "what do you want to study in future?" or "what do you like to study?". The truth is I don't know.

First of all, I do not in particularly like studying. I do not like any particular subject. There is only preference. I prefer to study Math over Geography because Math is easier for me. However, it being easier does not mean that I like it.

Second, work. To me, work is simply an avenue to achieve work satisfaction and of course, income. Work satisfaction can be derived from saving a life, counselling a person, winning a case for your client, attaining a high managerial post in a company or even make a small leap in technology during research. Reality have shown me that it doesn't matter in what form your work satisfaction comes in, it is the bread that it brings in that matters. I have seen people working 10 over years of their lives working as something, only to give up the job later to look for others. The reasons being "don't like the job but needed the money then", "grew sick of it, no prospects"....

I feel that all thise crap about your dreams and ambitions are just part of a major propaganda exercise since the old ages. Firstly, our ancestors worked together to set up the societies and systems. Everybody is given a part to fulfill. There were no demands back then, so people just do their part, get fed and get protected. At this point, the systems are already set up and in process. People start to grow a little bit cleverer and maybe more selfish. They ask, "Why must I do this while he/she does that?" So some smart asses came up with the solution! "Give them choices! Everybody can choose their own professions! You just have to acquire the skills needed for that profession and you can do the job you want!" So everybody chose "what they like" and everybody is happy working.

Later, some people became cleverer and questioned, "Why are those smart asses telling us what to do?" Those smart asses thought of another solution! "You can vote who to govern you! Democracy prevails!" blah blah blah....

haha.. ok... i'm just being pragmatic & crappy at the same time... Sigh.. Suddenly my world is so dark and gloomy.....(Another crap)

The Origin. 5/17/2006 09:22:00 am

quotes

"You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true." - Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy

'How happy is the little Stone
That rambles in the Road alone,
And doesn't care about Careers
And Exigencies never fears-
Whose Coat of elemental Brown
A passing Universe put on,
And independent as the Sun
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute Decree
In casual simplicity-' - How happy is the little Stone by Emily Dickinson

'This is your last chance.
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.' - Morpheus, The Matrix

'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it if you do.' - Unknown

'There are plenty of people with good intentions who take the wrong actions in the end' - Gundam Seed Destiny

'Life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith,
a door will open for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good for us.' - A.J.Cronin

"Every life has one true-love snapshot
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know
No life is a waste.
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"

"A man can endure alot if he still has hope." - Clyde T. Ellis

" 'Appreciate It.' 2 simple words. A life span of gratitude." - Cinderella Man

"A boxer enters the ring alone. If knocked down, he alone could pick himself up and keep the fight going." - Cinderella Man

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Jame J. Braddock: I know this isn't what you wanted. But I can't win if you're not behind me.
Mae: I'm always behind you."

"People die in fairy tales all the time." - Max Baer, Cinderella Man

"Maybe sometimes people need to see someone do it so they can do it." - Father Rorick, Cinderella Man

"You always got ot figure you're not the best man in the world, there might be somebody better. That's the way it was. That's the way boxing is. The champion don't always stand up. There's always somebody coming up to take him. That's a part of life." - Jame J. Braddock

"If either man falls through weakness or otherwise, he must get up unassisted" - The Queensbury Rules, No. 4

"All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" - Motto of the King's Guard in Ancient Greece

"With each passing day in a good marriage, the love for your spouse grow stronger than the day before" - Cinderella Man

"I take responsibility" - President George W. Bush

"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you sow a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny." - Samuel Smiles

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt - Shakespeare in Measure of Measure

"What does your heart tell you?" - Aragorn, LOTR

"To an outstretched hand we shall respond with an olive branch, but we shall fight fire with the harshest fire ever." - Israeli PM Ariel Sharon

"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. " - The Matrix

"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath." - Balian of Ibelin, Kingdom of Heaven

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices." - Dumbledore, Harry Potter

"Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, LOTR

"Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten." - Lilo & Stitch

"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." - Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart

"Every man dies, not every man really lives." - William Wallace, Braveheart

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