Girls, Be Ambitious

Just how ambitious can you be? How ambitious do you let yourself be? And how ambitious do the people around let you be? I think people should dream for themselves and dare to dream for themselves. A dream will never become reality if one never tries to realize that dream. Granted, some dreams are downright impossible.

However, impossible is something that cannot be empirically proven. How do you know that something is impossible unless you have tried every single possibility that should lead to the desired conclusion? It is likely impossible to try every single possibility within a human lifetime to prove conclusively that something is impossible.

Hence, it should be such that everyone at least tries to make a push towards what they envision themselves to be. The pressure is great to conform to the norms of society, to become what the average person does, get married, have kids, fade peacefully into suburbia. However, the means by which one achieves that goal may differ from person to person. More importantly, what if that is not the goal for the individual in question?

Perhaps it is time that we set ambitions for ourselves instead of letting others dictate what our ambitions should be. It may sound selfish, but an ambition for oneself need not exclude those we care for and those we feel obligated towards. However, it would likely be as selfish of them to expect that one live one's life entirely in accordance to what they expect. Girls, be ambitious. Things become impossible only when one stops trying.

I am older now, and there is a cricket playing its song at my place.