Since the beginning (I'm 27 years old today and started when I was 12 years old), I never had any greater ambition. Even at this time, I knew that I should have many kinds of support that I would never have and I was never that good to invest my career on it. In two years, I started moving into a professional direction, then I had a 10 years pause, in order to make my initial technical studies and later graduate me as an engineer. Much more than this, we have so many problems around the professional sport here in Brazil, not only the table tennis, by the way. So, these greater ambitions are so much riskier here.
However, even being a proud amateur, I like to get it serious, because that's the way I have fun. I love to do many things that my colleagues really hate, as physical training, every kind of drills, and much more. I use to say that I like more the training sessions than the games itself (even loving them too), because this way I can pursue the improvement all the time, and it really delights me.
So my "forever" goal is only playing better and better. Of course, I want to win championships, but playing better than yesterday is what moves me, because I know I'm not that fast I could be someday in the past or even that young, but pursue the plenitude is all that really matters in life.
Best regards!