Ambition
It is not difficult to imagine a world short of ambition. It would probably
be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments
. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not
be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter
in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The
stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling
, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased
, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous
endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with
ambition long departed from the human heart. Ah, how unrelieved boring
life would be! There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth
, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really
exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and
women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events
now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth
cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough
learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success
exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth
is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise
is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in
its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment
, and regard for posterity. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose
our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our
birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most
of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death
. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall
live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose
or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We
decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we
refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our
choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We
decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed
. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
be a kinder world: with out demands, without abrasions, without disappointments
. People would have time for reflection. Such work as they did would not
be for themselves but for the collectivity. Competition would never enter
in. conflict would be eliminated, tension become a thing of the past. The
stress of creation would be at an end. Art would no longer be troubling
, but purely celebratory in its functions. Longevity would be increased
, for fewer people would die of heart attack or stroke caused by tumultuous
endeavor. Anxiety would be extinct. Time would stretch on and on, with
ambition long departed from the human heart. Ah, how unrelieved boring
life would be! There is a strong view that holds that success is a myth
, and ambition therefore a sham. Does this mean that success does not really
exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and
women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events
now not all success, obviously, is worth esteeming, nor all ambition worth
cultivating. Which are and which are not is something one soon enough
learns on one’s own. But even the most cynical secretly admit that success
exists; that achievement counts for a great deal; and that the true myth
is that the actions of men and women are useless. To believe otherwise
is to take on a point of view that is likely to be deranging. It is, in
its implications, to remove all motives for competence, interest in attainment
, and regard for posterity. We do not choose to be born. We do not choose
our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our
birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most
of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time or conditions of our death
. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall
live: courageously or in cowardice, honorably or dishonorably, with purpose
or in drift. We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We
decide that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we
refuse to do. But no matter how indifferent the universe may be to our
choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. We
decide. We choose. And as we decide and choose, so are our lives formed
. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.
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