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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-03 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2862 ]


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Re: What are your relationship deal breakers?

(Anonymous) 2014-11-05 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
That isn't ambition. It's not just the dictionary definition, it's the actual meaning. That is what people mean by ambition. your problem is with complacency, and not contentment. you're like one of those people who thinks irregardless is a word and will keep using it despite it not being one.

Re: What are your relationship deal breakers?

(Anonymous) 2014-11-05 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The problem with using a dictionary definition is that most words carry a connotative meaning that the dictionary definition doesn't encompass. But even so, I see that this particular definition--even though it stresses desire for "power, honor, fame and wealth"--also includes "energy" and "the desire for work or activity." This is closer, probably, to the connotative meaning most people are thinking of when they say they could not consider a LTR with someone who lacked ambition.

At the same time, someone earlier in this thread--maybe you?--drew a false dichotomy between ambition and contentment. They're not in opposition; you can be contented with some portion of your lot in life, yet at the same time be ambitious in the sense of continually striving for excellence or achievement, for some larger goal than simply getting by. And there also isn't a bright line between contentment and complacency either, especially since most complacent people would probably prefer to regard themselves as contented; it sounds nobler.

Re: What are your relationship deal breakers?

(Anonymous) 2014-11-06 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
we get it, you clearly have/had issues with some complacent mooch in your life and thus are projecting like crazy.

it still doesn't make "ambitious" mean what you think it should mean.