Ambitions

The two schoolboys saved up their money in time for the visiting fair.

They had always been good classmates and best friends, and often spent time at each other’s homes, on both evenings and weekends. As pupils, they both studied really hard, and the home visits were mainly spent supporting one another with their homework assignments. You could say they were future orientated. They both had strong ideas about what sort of careers they took up after school and were willing to put in the study hours to achieve their individual ambitions. It was with regards to the future, that they had read several newspaper articles about the highly successful medium that was due to take up a spot at the upcoming annual show. Her remarkable powers to accurately predict the future by reading a person’s cards meant that she was very expensive. This was what they were saving for.

When the time came, they found themselves standing in a short queue outside the mediums tent, each with a pocket containing their hard-earned savings. Despite all of their planning and discussions about what they were about to do, they were both quite nervous when they entered.

Inside, they found a rather ordinary looking, middle-aged woman, with glasses hanging on a cord around her neck, who sat shuffling the cards. Looking up, she invited them to take seats. They did this, and after paying her for her services were asked to state the purpose of their visit. Each of them, with well-rehearsed speeches, explained what they wanted their futures to hold. When they had both finished, the fortune teller smiled and began to lay out the cards. This was done, with great care, placing each one face down in a complex sequence, on the felt-covered table between them.

When this was done, she brought her spectacles up and put them on. She sat staring down at them for a minute or two in silence before turning them over in what seemed to be slow motion.

At this juncture, it is only fair to say that the medium in question had recently been struggling more and more with failing eyesight. This obviously meant that her lucrative career was unhappily drawing to an end.

The upshot of this resulted in the one who had always dreamt of composing his own concerto went on to university to study structural engineering, while the one whose ambition was to design buildings, took up piano lessons.

It goes without saying that neither of them was ever particularly happy in their future careers!

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