Outlook

How we see life affects the way we live it. Some are content with a commute to the dead-end office job and back just to earn the infrequent holiday. Some, although increasingly less and less in the UK, gain their satisfaction from farming a yield suitable to sustain only their family.

If you don't come into either of these categories, here is a possible reason why not:

am·bi·tion (Noun)

/æmˈbɪʃən/ Show Spelled[am-bish-uhn]

an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment:

Ambition is one of a few traits that I feel is essential to being a human being. Without it life would have no meaning. And meaning is vital to happiness. But where do we go from there?

It can't just be - Fine, well done, you have ambition. What's for dinner?

That just does not cut the mustard.

Elaboration is needed. So we've got that ambition = meaning.

But surely it's ambition + fulfilment of said ambition = meaning.

No?

Where do we draw the line then?

In having ambition and with the help of Hollywood, we set ourselves up for big goals, which end up in disappointment in the event that we don't succeed. With most ambitions, this is quite often. But this must be better than no ambition.

I find it happens mostly when listening to music. But people may experience it through other means. I find that music opens up that part of your mind that 'thinks' further than your immediate surroundings. But, like film and other media, these thoughts could just be a means of escape, that only the very fortunate or lucky achieve. As the definition said, ambition is directly related to acheivement. Serious ambition must result in equally serious achievement for the ambition to be satisfied.

The next question is, do we live for it? Is what we actually live for, to achieve? Or is that just a bonus to life?

These things just make me wonder, that's all...