Ambition

Here are some synonyms for the word ambition: (and no, you cannot play scrabble with just these words, you ambitious person you.)

Goal
Drive
Aim
Objective
Aspiration
Dream
Hope
Desire
purpose

Here's a classical going away-to-college question that us students, at the end of our high school days, hear from time to time: how will you be ten years from now?
I sat down and calculated when that would be. 18 + 10 = 28, so I'd be 28. (No, really, I'm being sarcastic.)
But really, I sat down and thought about it. At this age in my life, us people tend to have a little of what you call ambition.
Yeah, I'm one of those ambitious people - you can just tell who the ambitous people are - and yeah, I hope I never" settle for less."
Never "settle for less" is something that many people tell themselves. To this end, most people never settle for less in life - they just compromise the dreams they once had in exchange for something "more possible."
And that's perfectly fine. A lot of people live perfectly happy and comfortable lives. They are still ambitious - people can't help who they are - but are in a slightly different way. The guy who wants to be a neurosurgeon goes into family practice instead. The lady who wants to be an astronaut is working at NASA, but as a scientist instead. The guy who joined the army decides he wants to become a major instead of going to college with the GI bill. The person who went to law school to become a partner in a major firm is content being a junior partner. The
Personally, I think that changing ambitions is dangerous. I'm really talking about changing goals. We must be flexible and adaptable in our situations, but I'm of the more stubborn type. I would rather going down crashing than change my mind. I don't like that word, 'instead.' It is misleading, because it seems to signal you are doing something else instead of what you originally intended. Instead, I seem to like the word insist. I insist that I never sideswipe my intentions, and that I will fulfill that orginal will, that orginal need.

(Personally, I'm not taking chances, I'm picturing what I want in my life, now. That takes care of coming up with goals for myself. I've thought of how to get them, too. We'll just have to sit back and watch now, won't we?)

There are many ambitious people. Where will you be ten years from now? And yes, this applies to everyone, because life continues on...

Question

I have many questions. I know you do too. And many of my questions remain unanswered. And your questions... your questions are there with mine.
In fact, many of my questions can never be answered. It can be partly because the questions don't make any sense. However, it leaves one to ponder: why would I ever ask such ridiculous questions? And worse yet, why do my questions remain unanswered?

The answer to your questions and mine, although I'm not completely sure, is "I don't know."
Talk about being unsure of yourself.

But don't worry, I'm sure about a lot of things!

A change of pace

Let's try something new. In fact, I'll start right now. For my last couple months in high school, I'm going to try something new for a change. You never know when that urge to try something new will hit you. So everyone go out there and try something new!

Point blank writing can be dangerous

An obscure topic off the top of my head... Lets talk about... ah, I know! I just recently watched this movie, Adaptation, and it was quite interesting. I think that the ending totally ruins the movie, by adapting it to a resolution, but I have to say, it does contain a lot of literary merit. Jack Nicholson stars as Charles Kafmann, the pitiful underdog and main character of the movie. Nicholson does a good job at being really pathetic and weak, I do complement. Charles Kafmann's character is fatally flawed and doomed to lose, but his identical twin brother is the exact opposite of what Charles wants in his life. So the moral of the story is don't be like Charles, but be the brother and the person that everyone and you want to be... Live it up.