The Price Of Ambition Is Isolation
Everybody likes ambition until they have to face an ambitious person in real life. When they have to face that partner who would choose their ambition over them, that’s when the test of every relationship begins.
Ambition is acceptable in men but not in women. Because no matter how far we think we have come in our evolution, in our civilizational ethics, in our understanding of equality, we still feel that without women, we are incomplete. And so we assign them the duty of completing us. Of being there with us while we pursue our ambition.
This is hypocritical. I am not agreeing with the feminists here that all men are vile and selfish creatures, but you do see the hypocrisy here, right? The price of ambition is isolation. When you choose ambition, you are choosing yourself over everything else. And by everything else, I mean literally everything else.
A truly ambitious person will look like they have signed a deal with the devil. They will not stop until they have achieved what they set out to achieve. They will not experience happiness, they will not participate in your joyous activities, they will not take it easy. Nothing matters to them until they have reached where they want to go.
People will hate them for leaving them behind, for making them feel less important, for always choosing themselves over others. In men, it’s more acceptable because men are supposed to be ambitious, but it can work for both parties. There is nothing wrong with women being ambitious, as long as both understand that there is a price to be paid for chasing your ambition.
The price of ambition is isolation because having people around who aren’t as ambitious as you are, who do not understand it the way you do, who do not share your worldview, can make everything frustrating. And if you are someone who feels this, then know that just as you are right in chasing your goals, others too have the right to chase theirs. And sometimes the goal is simply to live life as it is, not chase the totem pole.
Ambition doesn’t come alone. It demands a lot from you before it gives you anything fruitful, and sometimes, not even that. Your obsession with your objective can sometimes take away everything else. If you are ambitious, then you have to be prepared to live on your own, to see everything around you getting destroyed one thing after another.
That’s the price you will have to pay. Choose wisely, because you don’t always get to change your mind.