Work before play.

So my good friend was right I have become less ambitious. I am becoming less ambitious by the day. She asked me what would you do if you hit the jackpot this very day and i responded "what would I do? I have no use for dough" and she yelled "really??" i was kidding, for real I was weighing her own ambition, and that is not the problem, the issue is what came after that. I actually reasoned in the light of being young and having no use for money, which is stupid and gullible. If you want to achieve something you have to work for it, for you to work for that thing in the first place you have to realize the need you have for that thing. That is ambition, we all have needs. We cannot live without fulfilling such needs and most of the time our ambition is concealed by the mask of parenthood. Simply because we are brought up by parents looking out for us, we are unconscious of our needs to a certain age in life, which should not be after ten. I believe every child becomes ambitious at ten, that being the latest age. Children begin as early as five years old to realize the need to thrive. I want to be a good student, well not exactly put that way but they strive at tender ages to be good in studies and in play. this ambition should never dwindle. Parents should encourage such desires to be great in their children. I have come across parents who clearly shun their kids dreams, knowingly or unknowingly. Whatever little things your baby says, encourage her or him, smile with approval and be proud of them. Try to find interest in whatever they love and be a part of it. As a child grows they become better and you become a part of that. Now my own mother is the greatest encourager of my dreams. Even God encourages people and works with them to give them direction. That is what mentorship does. I am twenty years old now. Working towards a cause. My ambition swayed at some point but its one of the best things I have realized in my teenage and as a young adult. Life is about building, its the only way we find essence. We just have to work before we can play.