How my ambitions differ from most
I was watching the movie “Tap†today. For those of you that don’t know it, “Tap†is a movie about tap dancers, starring Gregory Hines. In one of the scenes, Hines tells all the other tap dancers to “Express yourself!â€
The reason that I bring this up is that I finally figured out why I don’t have the desire to draw or write or paint or dance or sing or play an instrument. You see, I really don’t have anything to say. There is no story that I want to tell. I have heard artists speak, and they all have something that they want to say, whether it is with music or dance or paint or sculpture or poetry or any other method that people use.
If you want to hear my story or see my art or hear my music, then you have to spend some time with my kids.
My goal is to be a good father. My heart is in my children. My life is watching them grow up.
I have been accused of not having any ambition. My reply to that is that my ambitions are different from most other people’s, and I pursue mine just a diligently as athletes pursue theirs.
I keep getting told that I am special and unique (mostly by Phoenix and Gidget), but I keep wondering how I can be so completely different from others. I mean, from my perspective, I am normal, and I cannot understand how it would feel to be different than I am.
Am I really so odd?
Special and unique does not mean odd in any way, shape or form. What it means is that you truly care about us and what happens to us.
I can personally say that I have never been cared about by anyone (except by my immediate family) the way that you do and we haven’t even met face to face! You care from the heart, you have felt my pain and you have offered your strong shoulder when I needed it. You stayed when everyone else left. You have chided me when I did wrong but never, ever have you ever judged me.
This is what makes you special, dear heart and why I consider you my bestest friend ever.
Carlo, I think that we all have watched others be good at what they do in the entertainment field, and seen many that weren’t good enough to succeed, but still they tried.
Then there are the watchers like us. We do have our own talents & ambitions. It would be a terrible world if we all strived to do the same thing……boring!!!
W’s is to write and be faithful and so much more.
Yours is to love and watch your children….actually that is what I call a teacher. You also are a mentor to many in service to your country. I see you have many talents…some better than others. So you don’t strive to other than that, and that is ok.
Hope I am making sense here..I know we all wonder from time to time what our talents are. My personal opinion is that they change daily as we grow as a human being.
My ambitions just got up and went. hehehe
Moan people have trouble understanding anyone who isn’t like themselves, and it’s mostly because they don’t try. You have no one to please but yourself, so if you make sure that YOU are impressed with your efforts, I have no doubt that you’ll reach whatever personal ambitons you have.
I was told once by someone that I worked with that I lacked ambition. I later saw that woman talking to her 10 year old on the phone. It was his birthday. He was in California, she had chosen to be in Albuquerque for business. Perhaps that choice makes her feel succesful. I’ll bet her boy saw it differently.
“Moan people”
MOST people. Yeesh.
You Carlo, love, are YOU. And I do beg to differ on you not having anything to say. You say things every day. In your emails, sighs, smiles, thoughts, laughter, the look in your eyes when your children laugh. The satisfaction of seeing someone finally get what you are trying to teach, that is where you make your mark in the world. I’m not sure I understand what “normal” is, nor would I strive to be someones definition of it. Be true to yourself and happy with yourself, dare to be different from “normal” just by being yourself. That’s what makes you such an amazing man.