THE AMBITIOUS AND THE NON-AMBITIOUS

There’s a basic difference between people with and without ambition. And that is DREAMS! People without ambition do not understand the concept of dreams. For them, this world is a reality and they have no clue (and no ambition again to know) why they are here. For them, its an act of God! For those with an ambition, a parallel reality exists - a reality which is more real than the present state of affairs around them. It is precisely because of the fact of their constant revisiting THAT reality, rather living in it, that they can dream of a reality better than the real reality around us, today, at this point. It is because of their dreams and ambitions that the world today can even think of being a better place than what it is. These dreams, however small, however unimportant on a first look CANNOT be disregarded. As, it is because of the power of these dreams, realised and otherwise, that those not having an ambition get the power and the hope to keep living on, hoping that something better might happen.
They don’t realise it – the non-ambitious – that they are actually living off the power of dreams of these ambitious souls. And if ever told, they would never even like to accept it. They would in fact deny, stating a million other tangible reasons citing the reasons of their existence. Oh yes, things like money, power, people and the likes of it. In the Indian context, I think the latter makes a big difference. The people! A large amount of the common mediocre middle-class here lives for other people, not realising that an immense amount of time and energy is spent in attending to and taming the egos of these other people, who they are thriving off. Innumerable long phone calls back home, sorting photographs in family gatherings, commenting on friends’ facebook pages digging out the same kind of banal humour that they have been exposed to through the works of Bollywood and other mediocre literature around them. Well, the word literature can be quite misleading here. Because this today’s generation of the non-ambitious has never ventured in that direction. For them, literature to its farthest limit comprises of thick textbooks that they used in their graduation courses. Otherwise, Bollywood and prime-time television are just enough to satiate their thirst for getting ENTERTAINED.
For such people, the ambitious and the dreamy becomes a difficult lot to accept and have around them. For they are constantly reminded of their mediocrity and the absence of a DRIVE to DO anything. As a character in a famous adaptation of Hamlet says to the latter, “If I was Hamlet, I would do something with anything.” Its about time, the non-ambitious come to think about doing SOMETHING with their lives. Because the ambitious are becoming more and more dreamy. And with all this information available to them at their fingertips, they might get lost in the big, big world of KNOWLEDGE. And unless you, the non-ambitious, do not feel the need to get enlightened by this KNOWLEDGE, you are going to be left far behind. So much so, that by the end of your life, if at all you see the white light and your entire flashes in front of your life, you would never be able to witness the CINEMASCOPIC drama that life can be.