Describe an ambition that you haven't achieved.: IELTS Speaking Cue Card

I am very ambitious to become a psychotherapist in my near future. This is an ambition that has been churning in my mind since I think I was in my teenage. I had experienced clinical depression and also had generalized anxiety that like dismantled several years of my life and I quitted science and got into psychology. I learned about mental health and with more education I started getting more involved into the field of psychology and mental health. I did work as a mental health friend but that was limited as I did not have a master's degree to support the eligibility requirements to be a psychotherapist. Currently I am in Canada. I have done addictions and mental health and I work as a peer support worker. From my work, my lived experience, I feel that I can be a ray of hope for people who are experiencing and struggling with mental health like I do. I think that it's extremely essential to make sure that these individuals know that they are not the problem and this world and the structure of the world is kind of a problem and also that they can get out of it. I feel when you are you have lived something you have the power and ability to explain or be there for people more than anyone else who have not had that lived experience. I haven't been able to achieve it because of a lot of limitations that immigration agencies and government organizations enforce upon immigrants. How I feel about it is not in a negative light. On the contrary I feel very hopeful. I feel there's a fuel and passion

During my childhood, I had an ambition to become a doctor, even my mom had same dream like I should be a doctor in a future. But later years and years go on, I started to think of that it could be a very difficult course to complete and also I believe that when I start this course, I just need to have a more hands-on practice on the real human body, so it make me a shiver and less confident on me. So I switched my career into a computer technology and literally it went to different path. Now I believe that I should take any initiation to become a doctor and later I believe in maybe in a future, if I am not able to become a doctor, I try to do a doctorate in my professional and which will support me in later years and years to be in a more confident person and have more knowledge on what I am doing and what I can do.

The ambition that I haven't achieved yet is to become a successful entrepreneur. The reason that I haven't achieved this ambition because currently I am engaged in a job and I want to gain some knowledge first then to start any business and currently I am also looking to gain some professional experience in the area in which I want to become an entrepreneur because I personally believe starting something without knowledge is not going to help me out. As of now I am thinking to more polish myself.

My ambition is to become a mariner, but unfortunately I can't achieve it. It's because of my parents. Because my parents won't like to allow me to study nanotechnology. Then, yeah, absolutely I have regrets on that. But I can't blame them because without them I am nothing. Maybe perhaps in my next lifespan I'll try to be a mariner.

First of all, my ambition to become a biotechnologist. I completed my bachelor's degree in BSc Honours Botany. After that, I understood that I can't go with the field of botany no more. So, that is going to be a more drastic problem in my career. So far, I fluctuated to business management studies like logistics and supply chain management. The main reason was I couldn't achieve my dreams because of my fear of what will happen in the future while studying biotechnology. It's a big huge topic according to the plants, how they are growing, how they are working in the future. So, I am worried about studying more about that in the present. So, I skipped that because of my fear and I would not know how it will be going to happen for a long time. So, I just want to skip. But now, I think it's a bad decision I took. In the coming future, biotechnologists have more jobs and opportunities. And in the field of research, it is very useful for the youngsters to achieve their dreams in the field of biotechnology. And doing well in the field of biotechnology will ensure that you can go through and understand the morphological and anatomical part of the plants as well. That's it.

One thing that I haven't been able to achieve in the last few years that I've been working was just being physically fit, even mentally, but I would rather concentrate on the physical aspects. So, because I did not have any time at all to spend on myself, I just compromised on my health a lot. And it makes me not giving myself the time or just not making myself a priority. So, I want to invest in myself, give myself the best, be my best self in the future, eat healthy. So, it's not just working out. I want to eat healthy. I want to make these conscious decisions and lifestyle changes that will impact my health in the long term. So, that means eating healthy, being more conscious about what I eat, not just restricting myself. So, that doesn't mean that I eat smaller portions. Eat, but get in your macros, exercising at least an hour a day, three times a week. That's the basic that I want to do for myself. And then feel better, feel healthy, feel like I can run a marathon, be a part of something big. Just not fall sick, have a better immunity.

Frankly, this is a question that's really personal to me. Starting off, the ambition that I haven't achieved is acting. Since I can remember, I wanted to be an actress, and I think I've really worked hard towards it as well. So I had watched a movie a couple of years back, I think when I was in fifth grade, called Two States, and seeing Alia Bhatt on screen, I knew that I wanted to be there. However, I wasn't able to achieve that dream because of my parents and my family. They were against me pursuing acting and getting into the entertainment industry or the showbiz, mainly because they felt that it's quite an unsafe industry. There are issues like casting couch, a lot of skin show, and erratic working hours. And people in the film industry, as much as they are loved in the society, especially in my community, they are looked down upon. Talking about feeling, I don't feel really great about it, because that's something that I've always wanted to do. I am really good at dancing. I have learned Kuchipudi for around five years. Apart from that, whenever I get some time off, I stand in front of the mirror and enact certain scenes or the difficult scenes to get my expressions right. And I did take up a theatre course and did a great monologue, assignment monologue, that my professors really appreciated. So I do believe that I could have done it and I could have achieved a lot of greatness and I could have reached heights of success in the industry, but I couldn't.

Growing up, I always had an ambition to work in the army. I was really passionate about that idea. The fact of working and putting my talents to my country was really something that I always wanted to achieve in my life. More than just being an army officer, I wanted to be an army doctor. Growing up, seeing all these movies and shows, showing people actually doing something, by being there, by being a part of army was literally a very exciting part for me. However, even though I didn't become an army doctor, I became a doctor, which obviously I am very proud of myself. But the regret always remains, me being not able to achieve that army dream. I think growing up, my preferences changed. For example, I became too busy preparing for my exams, clearing out the medical school because that itself was very tough. I had to give up everything that I had to actually become a doctor, studying, using up all my time and not giving importance to what I really wanted. Thinking about it, I actually have become at peace with it because at least I am happy that I have achieved something in my life. I feel proud of myself but at the same time, in future, if I ever get an opportunity to join the army, engage up in the army activities, I would really jump at that opportunity. I would use everything.

Since my childhood, I want to become a doctor, but due to several reasons, I could not become. Today, I would like to tell you, I would like to tell you about that how I cannot achieve my ambition. I have interest in medical science from 8th standard and I have made my mind that I would become a doctor in future as I was doing well in science. So, it made my interest in science rather than other subjects. So, when I have cleared my 10th standard exams, I scored well in science and I have taken medical stream and I took medical stream in 11th standard, so that I would become a doctor in future and did great. I was doing great till 12th and cleared my 12th with 12th standard.

My ambition is to get a fashion designer or modelling, but I won't be getting that because I am in the field of architecture. I am not in the field of architecture where I can be only an architect. I love designing dresses. I love creating new variety of dresses. I love modelling which I can style and wear myself, where I can keep creative. But even though I am happy with my architecture field which has some similar things which I have in architecture, like creating and exploring new things, I am happy for it. But there is one sad thing that I became a fashion designer due to lack of knowledge at that time. After entering into architecture, I realised that I love fashion designing and modelling. I tried to change my course when I was in the year of second year, but after that I realised that I can do the architecture results well.