Sunday, July 8, 2012
My Ambition

Question: I love to draw, but my parents won’t let me pursue such a dream. How should I talk to them?

Answer:

It is never easy to find out what dream or ambition that suits you. I am glad to hear from you. This is because you’ve found your dream at such a young age, you must have understood yourself quite well. However, your parents must have had their reasons for not letting you pursue such career.

It is often that our parents would talk to us based on what they’ve gone through in their lives. This is because they’re worried and they care about us and our ambition. They would be worried if our ambition could lead us somewhere good or bad. Take this as an opportunity to understand more about your direction. Sometimes, people say that “geniuses must be put at the right places”. That dream and ambition you hold in you has a lot of value. Those who work their whole life in realizing their dreams are people with great values.

Life is full of options and decisions to make. For example, someday in the future, we may have to choose whether we should pursue in science or art stream in our studies. Before we could make the right choice, it is crucial that we talk to our parents to find out which of them suits us the most. Therefore, we must have a two way communication here with our parents and not just standing stubbornly at our own point of view. We must learn to listen, and I believe until then, you will find out more about everything that supports your decision.

To win our parents trust and agreement, we must give our effort to study well, enrich ourselves with knowledge. To be able to get used to your future career, you could also start joining societies or competitions to enrich yourself with experience. Don’t think of drawing as an interest, but a talent that you’ve got.

It is crucial to have courage and wisdom while communicating with our parents. Be sure that you’ve chanted Daimoku before doing that. Speak and grow with your parents. Show them your inner potential, your talent. This is the only way that they could get to know more about us too. Our parents’ love and care may sometimes come with high expectations on us. But that is for our own good too.

Mr. Ikeda once said that “Those who nurture a talent worth being proud of during their youth are the strongest people. In this way, even if our occupation or career has nothing to do with our interest, we could still contribute to the society with what we’ve got. Having such a talent with you, you will be a person with values in the society and be respected.”


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