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Someone once defined middle age as “the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will be feeling as good as…
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The Stages of Ambition
Bits & Pieces, September 1989
Someone once traced the usual progress of ambition: “first, to be like Dad; then to be famous; then to be a millionaire; then simply to make enough to pay the bills; and finally, to hang on long enough to draw a pension.” The humor works because it is recognizable. Many of us have watched our grand dreams quietly shrink under the weight of ordinary responsibility.
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Light and true. Good for a moment of self-recognition in a sermon on calling, contentment, or the long arc of a life.
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