I had just finished watching 5 episodes of the HK drama, Forensic Heroes 2. This drama is similar to the CSI series. It is really impressive knowing how the investigators use Science to solve cases. Watching this drama somehow made me recall my ambitions.

When I was younger and more naive, I was easily influenced by ‘heroes’ and desired to be like them. At the age of 12, I started to read detective comics and dream of becoming one when I grew up. I thought that it is cool being a detective as you assist and work alongside the police. However, when my mum told me that this job is not practical because I have to be extremely smart and observant to be a detective and the pay is not necessarily good, I gave up.

During secondary school days, I decided to change my ambition to crime scene investigator or pathologist, not considering how tough it will be to study forensics or whether I am the ‘material’ for it. Of course, you can expect that this dream of mine only lasted a year.

Besides the above mentioned, I had some other ‘non-heroic’ ambitions too. While I was in kindergarden, my neighbour’s daughter was a flight attendant and she always brought stuff from overseas. I remembered being envious and aspired to become an air stewardess so that I can travel to other countries and bring souvenirs back. A typical ‘wanting to show-off’ spirit. That dream died off pretty soon as our family moved house and we lost contact with our neighbour and her daughter.

I studied 3 years hospitality management in TP and obviously, my ambition then was to work in a hotel. At least that dream lasted till internship. The glamorous image that I had in mind was totally erased after serving 6 months in a hotel and seeing how operations at the back office were like. Although I liked the job, it was tiring dealing with difficult requests/demands, difficult people and difficult expectations.

Well…perhaps you will find me a fickle person after reading this post but I believe that everybody will have different ambitions or dreams at different stages of their lives. 

What’s yours?