Why does this sort of topic always feel kinda like a cross between a kid's xmas list and New Year's resolutions?  LOL  I'll avoid the "before I die" theme, since the way I lived my first 20 yrs, nobody (including me) expected me to make 30.  40 was a shock and 50 was a stunner.  So since I may be around for  while yet, I may as well keep busy.  On the other hand I could be dead tomorrow, as any of us could.  Nobody really knows.

I don't know as I have ambitions, but maybe goals, short term and long term.

Short term, I did some compositions of seasonal music when I was taking composition and music theory in college, and a few of them were string pieces or featured violin.  I worked them out on keyboard after studying the range of the instrument and etc.  When I was taking digital studio, I did some bits from those pieces, using sampled violin notes, but I never felt the feel was right.  So I want to play those pieces that I wrote years ago.  One of them has been in my head for 2 decades now.  That is one of the things I am working towards, learning the techniques to get the sounds and getting enough familiarity and fluency with the instrument. 

Long term, I'd like to be fluent enough to be able to pick up the violin and be able to play anything I've heard or that comes into my head.  Up to a reasonable level of complexity, anyway.  Nothing wrong with having to work on the tricky bits a little to get them sterling, but I'd want to be able to at least play the basic themes with an appropriate degree of expression. 

But so far as being rich or famous?  Bah.  If had ever wanted those things, I would have lived my life differently than I do.  Making a living as a musician?  Been there, done that.  It's not so hard.  You just have to really really like ramen noodles and very small apartments and be willing to only play well known songs that other people wrote, like some sort of bi-pedal organic jukebox.  LOL