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As always, the answer is: it depends.
It’s one thing to to want to improve your standing in life when you’re average or mired in mediocrity.
It’s entirely another thing when ambition becomes greed. When we stop cherishing and valuing what we do have now, only to focus on what we don’t have or want to have.
Like anything in life, there must be moderation.
“We must have enough money.”
“We must have enough love.”
So what if our significant others don’t look like movie stars or don’t have perfect personalities?
They’re human!
Just like us.
And if they love us and care for us all the same, isn’t that enough?
Is it okay to settle and be happy with what you have?
On the big road of life, we should relax sometimes and stop to smell the roses. To appreciate everything around you.
Because who knows? Your life could end before you achieve your goals. Doesn’t it make sense to have had a good journey along the way?
What do you think? Am I rambling again? Or preaching to the choir?
Ambition does not equal greed.
Greed is greed, and ambition is ambition.
Having ambition does not mean you can't also have the other things you've mentioned.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Having ambition is not evil. Declaring your ambition is not evil. Ambition is nothing more than a desire to achieve a goal that will help you create the life you want.
Regardless of what that life is.
It's your ambition, it's your goal, it's your life.
Creating the life you want is not any more evil, than having the ambition to achieve it.
It's usually people with a lack of ambition, a goal in life, or a life they want that poo-poo ambition and call it evil.
Conversely, people with all three ambition/goal/life usually applaud others who have the same. They are inspired by the success of others, grateful that they have paved a road they wish to also travel along, and excited by knowing that what they want is indeed, a possibility.
Would you want to join a company with no ambition? Would you want to work with people who have so little ambition that they have joined a company with no ambition?
What do you think that would do to your career?
Ambition is not evil.
The lack of ambition is boring.
~ heidi
my viewpoint is ambition is that which you wanna achieve at any cost but some people take wrong way to achieve it whereas in real way they never get anything at last !!!
@Heidi:
I believe there is a fine line that separates ambition and greed. It's important for us to recognize when enough is enough.
Example: I have a 20 inch TV. I would LIKE a 50 inch TV. But to purchase one would be wasteful since it's purely a luxury. I could take the cost of said new TV and use it to purchase a gift for my parents or donate it to a worthy charity.
@Amy:
That's right. Ambition is okay when you're not hurting others, but even then there are times when it's just excessive like I just mentioned.
That is the same line as recognizing the difference between a "need" and a "want".
I am quick to correct people (especially young people) when they say they "need" a 50" TV.
I remind them that they want one, not need one.
Also important for people to "own" what they want, and not tell themselves they need it as justification for the desire.
~ heidi
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