What's Your Life Ambition? (The Multipotentialite Series 1)

When we were little, right from primary school, we were asked what profession we wanted to do when we grow up.  A lot of us replied with what we thought was choice professions e.g. Lawyer, Doctor, Engineer, Architect, Journalist etc.

This trend continued to Secondary school wherein you were told to choose a department based on your interested profession or ambition, as it was so called. It was either you picked the Arts, Sciences or the "Commercial" department. So your life, education wise, was already being steered in a particular direction.

By then, every student was expected to have a certain profession as your ambition in life. At this stage, if a student was asked what his ambition was; he was expected to give a definite reply, failure of which he was termed a non-serious element.
It didn't occur to those asking the question back then that we might later grow interests in more than one profession or that the inability to give a definite answer was not because of unseriousness but because he had interests in different professions and he found it hard to choose a particular one.

The stance then was that you had to have a definite interest which should be pursued vigorously for you to become ‘successful’ in life. It didn't occur to them that having multiple interests was not unseriousness and neither was it a trait that characterized flawed development on part of the student. It didn't occur to them that having multiple interests was a perfectly healthy and normal occurrence, that it just showed that the particular student was a break from the boring norm.

The inability of the student to give a definite reply to the question of “life ambition” as asked by the teachers and the consequent reaction does harm in the life of such student. The reaction sows seed of doubt in the student as he wonders how come he is unable to decide on a definite profession as his life ambition. He wonders, if, maybe something is wrong with him. He wonders if, maybe he is really unserious as he is said to be. These doubts tend to affect the student’s progress in life as he does not know how to go about his multiple interests in life. This ensuing confusion causes a ‘go-slow’ in his progress…….


To be Contd.

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