Ambition... such a dreadful thing to have.....

Within the next year I intend to do my best to realise one of my longest held ambitions... to get some of my poetry in print.... and not just on the net.... I mean in a book.... I've had short stories published, and a couple of non-fiction articles.... but my poems have so far managed to escape the page.... I'll keep you posted...

But isn't ambition a terrible thing.... suppose, instead of simple things, like having poetry published, and running my own light haulage business, my ambitions encompassed world domination, or the destruction of mine enemies.... wouldn't that just suck... first, if I did achieve it, I'm sure, like alexander, I would weep... but more terrible still, under my current circumstances, I would probably not be able to realise them... 2000 years ago it would have been easy... regardless of wealth or social status, a man like myself, wise AND bearded, would simply be able to journey to neighbouring villages, drum up support, gather a rag tag army and take over the province.... get a few legions on my side, march on Rome or Peking or Walsall or wherever and emerge as Emperor.... then neighbouring empires would fall... gosh, wasn't it easier back then.... problem is, I'd try to be a good ruler, and therefore would fail dismally... people don't want good rulers.... they're usually happier under bad rulers, and better off under indifferent ones.... and I personally think that channelled indifference is the way forward.... I mean, look at what such a thinghas achieved in Leicester.... acknowledged as one of the most racially harmonious cities in Europe, if not the world, why does Leicester have fewer problems with so-called ethnicity than say, Bradford??? Well, not because of any great effort on behalf of the Council, or the traders, or even the people.... looking at it objectively, its because we really couldn't give a s**t who our next door neighbours are as long as they don't cause us any bother.... round here, most of us couldn't care less what racial group owns the shop, as long as it sells fags and cornflakes.... and we sure aren't going to brick the windows.... otherwise, where do we buy the milk tomorrow.... under the present climate in leicester, I really couldn't see us having race riots like they had in Bradford a while back... because we really are indifferent to race.... it just doesn't matter to us whether someone is Indian, Caribbean, Bengali, Polish, Scottish, or whether they mix or don't.... we don't worry about integration or segregation, and just let everyone get on with life.... but if ever we do start worrying about it, we'll probably have trouble.... so to all those who can constructively channel their indifference, Wisebeard salutes you!!!!