Essays

That formidable force that makes one believe that one needs what one usually only desires; that mind-set that is really more of an entity that sits on ones shoulder, and relentlessly  screams 'further, further', that asset that makes those who are not zealous, jealous... That is ambition. Ambition has been the backbone of every army! Through. those great ancient Egyptian wars, through Persia, through Hastings, through Waterloo, through the native American/greedy colonist battles, through the world-wars, through the Balkans, and through every other great conflict that has ever existed, each party was blessed by pure and passionate ambition...ambition to win at whatever cost necessary. Surely only the collective force of ambition found in a battle is liable to cause as much suffering and damage as has been caused by all battles that have ever been lost or won? Even the weakest, most injured warrior who persevered has been lunched not by insanity, but by raw ambition, and even the most perturbed and exasperated warlord is supported not by Ills schemes, but by the ambition to realize them.

Ambition is the ultimate wonder of the world! From the conception to the design to the construction to the completion, ambition was the proverbial foreman, as once again in we  see that collective zeal create a phenomenon...thus...

Ambition is the source of all that is good and all that is evil It makes the wonders and it makes the wars. Ambition is the winner and loser of every game! Every footballer, every chess player, every marathon runner, every duck-legged Olympic walker smells of fervour, which seeps from the pores of their ambition.

When years of dedication pass the baton to ambition, there is a sage to be reckoned with. One only wonders, why in spite of the eternal paradoxical query 'what would happen if an irresistible force met with an irresistible force?, someone always has to lose?

Ambition makes you healthy, wealthy and wise! The truth it conveys is that we are the scribes of our own destiny. It is ambition that makes us think we can be successful, and lack of ambition that makes us think we cannot. Ambition and Luck are both archenemies and best of friends.

Ambition is a pain in the neck! It is the finger that sets the alarm for 8 am, the fingers that turn the cold key of the cold car on a cold, cold morning. It compels us to do what we'd really rather put off until tomorrow, it slaps the wrist

of apathy.

Ambition is the sole witness at the sepulchre of the 'unsuccessful at everything'. You see, ambitious tears only fall from a fountain of youth- so they'll kiss the piled soil make it wet, and whisper with complacence, 'I made you successful at being unsuccessful'. Because ambition never likes to give in.

Ambition is the final book of every author, the final page of every book, the final word of the final page and the final letter in the final word.