They are not “just dreams”
Stop telling yourself that your dreams are dumb.
I personally hate it when I see someone talking about their dreams and then see people mocking them because their dreams are “unrealistic”. It pisses me off.
But what pisses me off more about that is that the people calling those dreams “unrealistic” are the kind of people settling down on things they hate while winning insane amounts of money. They simply know how to play the game.
But you know what? That’s stupid. We don’t know if we’ll have another life after this one, of course, we can believe we do, but at the end of the day, the only thing we can know for sure is that we only have one life.
Let’s imagine for a second here that there isn’t anything after death. No second opportunities. No heaven. No hell. Just a pure, obscure nothing. Let’s say that you would be completely alone with only your thoughts. You would think about your life at some point, right? Would you like to look back and be disappointed? Be disappointed knowing you wasted your whole life in something you didn’t even like because “it made a lot of money” or “it was more stable”?
That’s what the people that won’t follow their dreams will feel. Of course, they’ll have their own achievements, but at the end of the day, they will feel empty inside. That emptiness will be inside them forever. During eternity.
I’m not saying that’s what will happen after death, because no one knows what will happen. We don’t know if that’s what they will feel after death, but, that’s how they will feel during their whole life. Empty.
Following your dreams will always be the darker path, the one almost no one takes because it’s “too risky”. But you know what happens to the people that follow that path? The people that don’t give up even though that path is hard sometimes? They will always win. I’m not saying they will be rich or successful. I’m saying that they will feel whole, complete. They feel something the majority of people don’t feel because they’re too scared to try; They feel wholeness. That’s the only reward that makes all that path worth trying. Feeling whole because you always followed your dreams without looking back.
You should never call your dreams dumb again, instead, you should follow them. Follow the hard path, follow it knowing it’s worth it. There will be people telling you to give up, to follow the easy path as everyone else does. But you won’t listen to them. Not when you’re making your dreams come true.
Because at the end of the day, we are born with wings in a world that teaches us how to walk.
Don’t take the first step, dare to fly.
