Overambitious

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Has anyone remarked to you that you are overambitious?
Do you have bigger (way bigger!) dreams than most of your peers?

While no one has ever said I'm over ambitious, I think I am. I hope to be a published author someday, and in comparison to some of the so called "dreams" of others, it probably does seem ambitious to them. But what do they know?

I think as a group we tend to be under ambitious because we are taught by society that we are "less than,"

As long as you're not financially/physically harmed by ambition, you are never overambitious.

I have been accused often of this; I'm a dreamer, That's not realistic etc. But I don't really see anything wrong with that. I have attempted some rather large projects, which through an ability to concentrate for long periods I have managed to complete, perhaps just maintaining a special interest. (Much to the surprise of others) However, I do utterly fail in anything that has to do with ambition in the NT world; careers, work, money, saving etc.

You're darn tootin'! !! !!

I have a more-than-tenuous link with reality.

...hn ...

I spent the first 45 years of my life making myself miserable, trying to be normal. Ambition was the taskmaster, mercilessly whipping me to be what I was not. Since I failed at it spectacularly I would say that I was definitely over ambitious. Ever since I stopped trying and gave up most ambition, my life has been getting better and I have become much happier.

I'm beginning to think the Buddhists have the right idea "desire is the root of all unhappiness"

I mean....that my ambition has basis in reality--that there's not a tenuous relationship between my ambition and reality. Instead, there's a solid relationship.