Ambition To Greed By Dharwik Maknoor
I want more ; everyone wants more.
I believe that ambition can sometimes lead to greed. Ambition is what makes people want something more, something better. It causes discoveries and breakthroughs and many other things and, it does not halt people from being just fine with what we have it makes us work to make something better or try to improve any little thing as possible towards something that we are very passionate about. Although ambition is a great thing with many different positive effects on people it also might bring out what is called greed in a person. When it does come out, it just slowly takes over ambition and turns it into greed and the more determined we are towards something the faster it turns into greed.
In my own life, there have been situations where my statement about ambition has been proven. A couple of years ago me and my friend tried out for a soccer team and it was a very famous soccer team. I remember that I would have done anything to get on that team. I remember at one point of the try outs I wanted to get rid of the competition just to ensure me making the team , so I gave people bad passes to make it look like they were bad and I was good in front of the coaches and I fouled them without making it noticeable so they could not perform well and I didn't think that was wrong to make the team that way. I wanted that position all to myself and even though there were people who I knew deserved to be on that team more than me I didn't care I just had to get on that team, not having guilt, I thought of it as determination.
After a few days when the player list was posted I was just eager to look at the list and see if I made it and when I looked at it I had made the team and I was very happy and I screamed out “ I made it , I made it” and I was very happy even though there were people who didn't make the team right in front of me and I had the feeling that it was partly because of me that they could not perform well and I went back to look at it once more and I saw my friend didn't make it and I realized that he was one of the players that I fouled to get rid of the competition and I didn't even realize it until I saw the player list it was like he was nobody I even knew and someone I had to crush to get on the team at that point I realized how greedy I started becoming and that I had to confess to the coaches but I didn't because I was too greedy I wanted that position really bad so I acted as if I did nothing and I was innocent and had that thought stuck in my brain but at the same time I tried to forget about it and so I did.
Slowly I realized what I did and it was horrible because that thought haunted me for so long that I realized that the thing I was calling ambition was later just filled with greed and hatred and the worst part is I didn't even realize it because I was just too happy and didn't care about any other person. I had no idea what I had turned into and how many times I might have done these things because of the fact that I didn't realize that it was greed not ambition. Ever since then, I tried to think about how I could do stuff and achieve things the right way and not let my ambition turn into greed and selfishness.
I believe that ambition can sometimes lead to greed. Ambition is what makes people want something more, something better. It causes discoveries and breakthroughs and many other things and, it does not halt people from being just fine with what we have it makes us work to make something better or try to improve any little thing as possible towards something that we are very passionate about. Although ambition is a great thing with many different positive effects on people it also might bring out what is called greed in a person. When it does come out, it just slowly takes over ambition and turns it into greed and the more determined we are towards something the faster it turns into greed.
In my own life, there have been situations where my statement about ambition has been proven. A couple of years ago me and my friend tried out for a soccer team and it was a very famous soccer team. I remember that I would have done anything to get on that team. I remember at one point of the try outs I wanted to get rid of the competition just to ensure me making the team , so I gave people bad passes to make it look like they were bad and I was good in front of the coaches and I fouled them without making it noticeable so they could not perform well and I didn't think that was wrong to make the team that way. I wanted that position all to myself and even though there were people who I knew deserved to be on that team more than me I didn't care I just had to get on that team, not having guilt, I thought of it as determination.
After a few days when the player list was posted I was just eager to look at the list and see if I made it and when I looked at it I had made the team and I was very happy and I screamed out “ I made it , I made it” and I was very happy even though there were people who didn't make the team right in front of me and I had the feeling that it was partly because of me that they could not perform well and I went back to look at it once more and I saw my friend didn't make it and I realized that he was one of the players that I fouled to get rid of the competition and I didn't even realize it until I saw the player list it was like he was nobody I even knew and someone I had to crush to get on the team at that point I realized how greedy I started becoming and that I had to confess to the coaches but I didn't because I was too greedy I wanted that position really bad so I acted as if I did nothing and I was innocent and had that thought stuck in my brain but at the same time I tried to forget about it and so I did.
Slowly I realized what I did and it was horrible because that thought haunted me for so long that I realized that the thing I was calling ambition was later just filled with greed and hatred and the worst part is I didn't even realize it because I was just too happy and didn't care about any other person. I had no idea what I had turned into and how many times I might have done these things because of the fact that I didn't realize that it was greed not ambition. Ever since then, I tried to think about how I could do stuff and achieve things the right way and not let my ambition turn into greed and selfishness.
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