ambitions

Individualism is defined as the principle or habit of or belief in independent thought or action however, society is implicitly altering our perceptions and behavior. From the moment of birth we become pieces of clay, malleable, waiting as society fabricates with expectations and norms. The human mind caged into a barrier disrupting free thought. We try to escape. We try to stand out, rising above the pack but all in all we are still brown pieces of clay, hardly distinguishable from a distance.

“The only place he was entirely himself was high on the wire” (McCann 238). Isolated from society, steps away from death is the only place Philippe Petit felt at ease. High above the skyline Petit rises above the mobocracy, standing out like an ocean liner approaching the coast. The wire ultimately represents dreams. High among the skyline dreams flourish and as we start our lives as children we fill our minds of positive ambitions only to have society bring them down. Childhood is a delicate intimacy, fragile and beautiful. The youth are invariably flooded with black and white information chiseling the slab of clay beginning the foundation of a uniformed temple. Society is a major influence on a day to day basis on the outcome of our person. Children throughout history have always been compelled by expectations forced upon them. Individuality is a deterring quality resulting from the expectations faced by children in society.

In Joyas Volardores, a quote that brings much thought to the balance of society’s youth, “When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is a dream of a child, that all hearts are bruised and scarred, scorn and torn, repaired by time and will, pat...

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...from our control. However, we can overcome factors that guide our wire for us. Society needs to learn to live life for themselves rather than for other people. The triangular tool for progress; Believe, dreams, ambitions, is always there to be used; however, in today’s society nobody has taught us. We are raised upon conformity almost completely taking away the trait of being unique away from our control. A quote by Former apple CEO, Steve Jobs, “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.” Society is unable to last without dreams. The world as we know it was formed from ambitions. Dreams put into actions create a better world. Years ahead only few clay temples will remain from the mobocracy. Nobody can accurately predict society’s future, but one thing is certain ambitions will make one generation different from the next.