Our ambitions and our dreams give us a glimpse of a beautiful someday. And they can help us get through a sometimes less-than-beautiful today. It's a tricky thong, though, ambition. It can blind us to the price of success. It can consume us, leading to dangerous obsessions or empty hedonism. But no matter how much we're fueled by this natural neurological impulse, ambition isn't carved in stone. Dreams change. And even if we don't get to climb mountains, there's still chance that we can move them.
In the words of those old English poets," you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime you might find you get what you need."
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