Breathe
By Marilú Acosta
Ambition is a word with an interesting history. Of Latin origin: the verb ambire means to encompass, to go around, on either side. Ambitio, ambitionis is the action of circling or prowling as one does when stalking prey. This word quickly moves from the realm of hunting to politics to describe the hustle and bustle of candidates soliciting votes back and forth. Ambition is political campaigning. With the passage of time the word broadens its meaning, leaves politics and becomes a general act, that is how ambition is understood as going one way and the other with the desire to get something. From a strange ideology in which having desire and possessing something is considered bad, the negative value judgment gives ambition an unacceptable connotation.
