Life's ambition can be metaphorically represented as a bitter-sweet symphony. The symphony starts out with a dynamic of piano (soft), and a tempo of lento (slow) in its harmonic melody representing the innocence of childhood. The song eventually progressively crescendos into a bridge growing louder and possessing a presto (fast) tempo representing an individual's life endeavor or mission to discover true identity. The symphony ends much like the beginning; however it represents a sense of wisdom. The struggles that an individual endures, and the ultimate mission to find true identity defines life as a bitter-sweet symphony. An individual may take a lifetime to accurately determine in which part if the song they are enduring which makes the song sweet. It's the trails and triumphs that an individual must endure that makes the song bitter. I have found that the trick to life is not to dwell in the past, but to live in the present and look forward to the culmination of your own symphony.