Ambitions

[poliphilo]

I've been looking for a line (I think it's from the Ingoldsby Legends- but deuced if I can find it) which declares that a man has fulfilled his duty to the ages if he has

1. Produced a child
2. Written a book
3. Planted a tree.

I've done all three- the first in triplicate. So, please sir, can I be excused, now?

When I was a very small child I wanted to be a farmer. Well, having just spent an hour mucking out the rabbit and the guinea pigs, I reckon I've fulfilled that ambition too. P.S. There's a reason why guinea pigs are called "pigs" and it's not just because they squeak.

Do I have any ambitions left? More pertinently, is it proper for a person in their mid 50s to still have ambitions?

Except to grow old with dignity and grace- and not to hang about too long.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess people a thousand years from now may look back and think, "how on earth did our ancestors cope with life back in the 21st century?"

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I wonder myself how we cope here in the twenty-first century. I'm hearing right this minute on the news that "the wagons are circling around the Bush administration" as they yell ever louder that they refuse to give up their right to torture prisoners!

God.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That a modern administration should have the gall to demand the right to torture- it beggars belief.