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Ambition

Ambition (from àmbito, the Greek root of which means “wing span”) is nothing but the maximum distance between the wings; in other words, ambition is the opening between one´s wings. If you never open your wings, you cannot learn how to fly, but if you open them too much, you risk to crash onto the ground, which often happens to those who fly too high up.

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Ambition also evokes another meaning that is tied to the past: the journey that kings made each year to delimit the perimeter of their own territory (“not everything is mine, but that which is mine I cultivate and feed”).

In order to have Ambition, cultivate it and put it into practise, means to be able of asking oneself two questions constantly: is the goal within reach with my wing span? Do I have the right to claim this territory? A chain that is composed by many links that start from knowledge and awareness: exactly in this order. You acquire knowledge and that gives awareness of your possibility in relation to that which you do or want to start doing. In this way, our possibilities become a territory to cultivate, our force to free ourselves by flying.

Only in this way can we refrain from being satisfied with the leftovers of somebody else (who feeds us and gives us a minimum security, an alibi) and live not from the feasts of others, but building our own.

Aye Velasquez some nights I long
To stop the sail and return to my wife
You say that writing is normal For you one must always right and struggle

(Velasquez, Roberto Vecchioni)