What Is Your Biggest Ambition In Life?

anika987 · Apr 13, 2021

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To run a homestay in India for one year. It will be one that is already operational. The owners prolly need someone to run the place for a year while they go visit their children and do some traveling too. Preferably in South India but many other locations will also do.

The place will be about one to two hours from the nearest big city. Not too far. Hilly and hidden streams, maybe an unnamed waterfall that so few people visit that there is no distinct path to it. Old bungalow style house from the Colonial era offering tons of books, easy and adventurous nature walks, a 150 year old bridge nearby. A train passes through the area twice a day, stopping at the station that is open-air with a small 10x12 office for the station manager.

The staff is well-trained and the homestay runs by itself. All I have to do is wear pastel color cotton sarees, look well-slept, well-rested, minimal make-up, and dignified and talk with the guests, draw out their stories and make them feel at home.

Thread asks about ambition. If it was just me, this would be an ambition I could pull off with some doses of reality to temper the expectations. As it is not just me, it is a dream. So what ... like a wise woman once said -- A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.

Oh, and all the phones would be landline rotary ones in the homestay. Guests need to use these to contact staff or manager. Tea would be made in old-fashioned metal tea kettle over a wood fire. No coffee served inside the mainstay. : ) Nothing against coffee : ) just that it would lead to a unique talking point in the reviews online -- a S. India homestay where coffee is served but only by an outside provider in the verandah, not part of the mainstay's menu.

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Everything sounded so dreamy until u mentioned “No coffee served”
Maybe that can be made as an exception

nuss · Apr 14, 2021

This made me think- what is my biggest ambition in life?

Travel the world and actually spend a few months in each place with my family and see the world through my kids' eyes! I am planning to start going somewhere for a whole month or two (depending on the year) during summer and learn the ways of life. I am hoping to ease the kids with places in Europe and then make our way to Africa, Asia, and South America.

My other ambition is to run a marathon! Getting in shape for a 10k was a wonderful experience. I would like to push myself further!

And last but not least is to start free counseling for the international students applying to the universities in the USA. Especially help women with their careers in science and make a meaningful contribution to society!

Thoughtful · Apr 14, 2021

Ah, what a thread!! Great job OP!!

anika987 · Apr 14, 2021

Thoughtful said: ↑

Ah, what a thread!! Great job OP!!
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Thank you

anika987 · Apr 14, 2021

Interestingly no one until now mentioned anything related to being rich or like becoming the CEO of a company, a politician,someone powerful etc..maybe am Watching many movies

nandinimithun · Apr 14, 2021

My biggest ambition as a child was to become a teacher, and to read lot of books...
Have a space for the books....
Fortunate enough that all my childhood ambitions have come true....
No i am not a teacher in any school, but i am a teacher for my two little girls and myself...

Coming to the current scenario, my biggest ambition now is to take things slowly, one by one and spread positivity as much as possible and to understand that everything in life is temporary, so not to get attached to anything or anyone....
Well, i am not sure if it even counts as an ambition....
Thankful to god for everything.
Love
Nandini

anika987 · Apr 14, 2021

nandinimithun said: ↑

My biggest ambition as a child was to become a teacher, and to read lot of books...
Have a space for the books....
Fortunate enough that all my childhood ambitions have come true....
No i am not a teacher in any school, but i am a teacher for my two little girls and myself...

Coming to the current scenario, my biggest ambition now is to take things slowly, one by one and spread positivity as much as possible and to understand that everything in life is temporary, so not to get attached to anything or anyone....
Well, i am not sure if it even counts as an ambition....
Thankful to god for everything.
Love
Nandini
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Well said..

I also want to practice the art of detachment.

Angela123 · Apr 14, 2021

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To have a garden this year that the deer won’t treat as their personal lunch buffet.
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This is my goal this year. Last year I wanted to get a license to shoot deer. This year I am choosing peace.

Ruby2019 · Apr 14, 2021

Very interesting.

For now it will be to retire with a house in a hillside location and grow my own fruits and vegetables. Live super simply. Be detached.

Teach in schools for the under fortunate at some time in my life.

Retire early to enjoy the above. Hehehe.