What is ambition? Answers to this question may differ from person to person. Joseph Epstein, a famous American writer, gave his reply as he said, We decide what is important and what is trivial in life. We decide (so) that what makes us significant is either what we do or what we refuse to do. No matter how indifferent the universe may be to our choices and decisions, these choices and decisions are ours to make. In the end, forming our own destiny is what ambition is about.I totally agree with Epstein. Life is a series of choices and decisions. Of course, you cannot choose your parents, your color, your race or your nationality. Nor can you decide the brand of diaper you use while you are a baby, or the kindergarten you go to as a kid. They are choices and decisions of your parents. But as you grow up, you begin to make your own decisions. You choose the brand and style of your shoes, you choose the girl or the boy you date with, you choose the cat or the lizard you keep as a pet and you choose the college or university you go to. What is critical here is that you should make sure that you are the decision maker of your own life and do not pass on the right to others, even your parents, because, as Joseph said, ambition is to form your own destiny. A story goes that a disabled young man managed to reach the peak of every famous high mountain in the world before he was 28. He did all this just as his parents told him to do in their will. But the young man committed suicide in the end and his last words were:now I have nothing to do with all my goals achieved and my fame well established. I have no new goals. The major cause of the young mans ruin was, I believe, his lack of consciousness or ability to make his own decisions. Actually, a number of personalities in history at both home and abroad went against the will of their families and risked being discarded by them, but they had scored tremendous success in the end. Chairman Mao Zedong is a case in point. When he was young, he plunged himself into the tide of revolution in China, though his father objected to his choice. Finally, Chairman Mao fulfilled his ambition and led Chinese people to success. To sum up, we should not let ourselves easily influenced by others; we should be the master of our own fate.
什么是野心？对这个问题的回答可能不同于人对人。一位著名的美国作家爱泼斯坦，他说：我们决定什么是重要的，什么是微不足道的生活。我们决定让我们有意义的是我们做了什么，或者我们拒绝做什么。不管宇宙对我们的选择和决定有多么漠不关心，这些选择和决定都是我们自己做出的。最后，形成我们自己的命运是什么样的野心是：我完全同意爱泼斯坦。生活是一系列的选择和决定。当然，你不能选择你的父母，你的肤色，你的种族或你的国籍。你还不能决定你是一个孩子的时候你用的尿布的牌子，还是幼儿园的孩子。他们是你父母的选择和决定。但随着你的成长，你开始做你自己的决定。你选择的品牌和你的鞋子的风格，你选择的女孩或男孩你约会，你选择或蜥蜴把你当成宠物猫，你选择的学院或大学里你去。什么是关键在这里，你应该确保你是你自己生活的决策者，也不是通过对他人的权利，甚至你的父母，因为，正如约瑟所说，目标是形成自己的命运。一个故事说，一个残疾的年轻人设法达到高峰，在世界上的每一个著名的高山，他是28。当他的父母告诉他要做的，他就这样做了。但年轻人最终自杀了，他最后一句话是：现在我没有什么可以做的，我的目标实现了，我的名声很好。我没有新的目标，年轻人的毁灭的主要原因是，我相信，他缺乏意识或能力做出自己的决定。事实上，在历史上，有许多人在家里和他们的家人和他们被抛弃的意愿，但他们在年底取得了巨大的成功。毛泽东主席是一个例子。当他年轻的时候，他就把自己投入到了中国革命的大潮中，尽管他的父亲反对他的选择。最后，毛主席实现了他的雄心壮志，带领中国人民走向成功。总之，我们不应该让自己容易受别人的影响，我们应该是自己命运的主人。