Apakah cita cita anda? What is your ambition?
This seems to be a perennial essay question favourite among our BM and English teachers when we were younger. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if teachers today still set the same question.
If memory serves me, I think I wrote that I wanted to be a teacher. Of course, all that changed when I discovered computers. My dad, on the other hand, was hoping I would be a lawyer. Considering that I can get quite emotional sometimes when getting into arguments, I don't think I would have made a very good lawyer.
I also thought I could be an electronics engineer, but a lot of the stuff about it wasn't intuitively obvious to me. Software and computer architecture, on the other hand, I could get my head around.
The other day, as I was running in a 10km race, I thought to myself that I wanted to achieve a certain timing for 10km before I hit 40. Then suddenly, I thought about my life and whether I am happy with what I have achieved so far.
Then I realized that life is a bit like the race I was running in. Does it mean that if I fail to get 1st position, I am a miserable failure? As I looked around, I realized that a lot of the people in the race are just happy to be running. They are running for the sheer joy of it, and to compete against themselves, trying to become better each time.
And I suppose life is also like that. As long as we're happy with what we're doing and what we have, it doesn't really matter that we're not number 1. No one should judge us, and neither should we ourselves against others. As long as we are happy with our own lives, what other people think do not really matter.
Of course, our cita cita should spur us on, but it should never push us to the point where we become miserable with our lives.
4 comments:
HI ,Pat. I am totaly agree with your statement. We should always satisfy with what we have and value everything in our surronding. If we have to compare with others, life will always looks miserable. Cheers. Eng Soon
Pat, as with Eng Soon, I totally agree with you. As the saying goes ~ "Success is a journey, not a destination" ~
It really doesn't matter how differently we all define the word "success" if we understand that in the journey to success, who we become is so much more important then what we achieve.
It is always easy when we are only to ourself as our dreams may be within ourself. When you are in a pair, then both must be satisfied with the set goals. Then, when you are in the team, you will need to have the consensus of the team's goal...so, it get tougher and harder as the group grow bigger.
Will everyone satisfy with their own dreams ? Theoretically we should, as we are always answerable to ourself. In reality, it is difficult to just be answerable to oneself when you have the rest wanting something from you...
This is not comparison on other's achievement but a need to be certain of what we need to share with others so that we could lead stronger and better, hopefully lasting forever.
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