AMBITION, CONTENTMENT & MATERIALISM

As a scientist, you gotta have a little bone of
atheism in you in order to be able to follow (and
believe) Darwin's theory of evolutionism.
Geologists will have us believe (with good
explanations, mind you) that the entire solar
system was formed about 6billion years ago when
a spinning, disc-shaped hot cloud of interstellar
gases (and dust) in our part of the galaxy (the
Milky way) developed a very hot epicenter which
resulted in a series of thermonuclear reactions
that provided the proto-Sun's energy through
hydrogen fusion. Further turbulence of the solar
nebula led to the condensation of these gases, and
invariably led to the birth of the planets; as it were.
What evolutionism fails to effectively account for is
the origin of those gas clouds.

Outside of school, most everyone believe there's a
God somewhere/everywhere in charge of
everything. Religion provides us with an alternate
explanation of a being decreeing stuff to 'BE'. On
the surface, the demographic of Nigerian citizens
are essentially Christians and Muslims.
Christianity/Islam comes with rules/regulations
that serve as guidelines for people of those faith(s).

To contextualize the post, I'm gonna fictionalize an
instance: "In one of the technical drawing classes
that sweet custard of a young man (Captaincue)
took in senior secondary, the class was to design
a spanner. When he got his drawing sheet back,
he scored a 6/10 because there were a couple of
double-lines on his work. He wasn't particularly
chuffed-- as he'd put in a lot of work in that stuff.
So while wallowing in his unhappiness, a mate told
him he ought to be thankful. That some people got
as little as 2 out of 10." End of story.

By his (my) reckoning, 60% of the score wasn't
enough. 80% was the aim for him . That resolve,
that aspiration, that intent, is what I define as
ambition.
Recognizing the fact that he would've scored
higher had he (re)sharpened his pencils AND
eventually accepting that '6/10 isn't that bad!'.
That equanimity, that tranquility -- that's
contentment.
Knowing there are double-lines on his work and
sneaking into the teacher's office to correct all
errors in order to score higher however; that
greed, that animalistic hunger, that steely-eyed
determination to get more; often at the detriment of
religions' core values -- that's materialism.
What will you be content with? How lofty are your
ambitions/goals. What're you willing to do to make
those goals of yours come to fruition? How
unscrupulous can you get? How ruthless can you
be? How godly can you be? How low are you
willing to go? Are you going to look at those that
got 2/10 and say Alhamdulilai or you're gonna look
at those that scored 10/10 and punch your desk?
When does being content with happenstance
become a steady decline into the cesspit of
mediocrity?

When does untamed materialistic tendencies
escalate into a narcissistic spate of blatant
disregard for basic human decency? Why does
this even matter...?!!
Well, I think everything we achieve is somewhat
dependent on what your definition of those three
words are. Just do your thing. Surely, God will
judge us all on judgement day.
I think.
They say.
--->>> Captaincue (lots of the former, agreeable
amount of the other one & a healthy dosage of the
latter)