Last time I
talked about being your true self and today I want to talk about pursuing your
dream. With the only disclaimer
being: as long as your dreams don’t
involve you bringing harm to another, you should always pursue them. Always.
It is really as simple as that and this is something I will not budge
on.
Every single
human being is born with an innocent, pure curiosity about life, and as they
enter childhood they begin to formulate dreams without having to be told to do
so. It just happens as a natural
progression of their thoughts. And kids’
toys play right into their fantasies and the land of make-believe they create
for themselves. Toddlers are fascinated
with simple things such as preparing pretend meals in their pretend kitchens
and being cashiers at their pretend cash registers, counting their pretend
money and bagging the make-believe groceries.
And as the child matures, so do their dreams. They migrate from wanting to run the express
lane at the grocery store to wanting to sing, draw, play the guitar, dance,
act, paint and so forth. And all the
while all the older, wiser adults in their lives continue to tell them that
they can be and do anything they put their minds to. These children are told that the sky is the
limit and that the world is their oyster, and they fully believe it – they have
no reason not to. But somehow when these
same wide-eyed kids become adults they begin talking like all hope is lost, and
I can’t quite understand why because that’s the exact opposite of what they
were told as kids. All of a sudden they
are saying things like:
“I’ve got to
be realistic.”
“I’m too old
for that.”
“When I was
younger…”
“Now that I’m
older…”
“I used to
want to…”
Where did
this defeatist attitude come from???
What? Something didn’t go your
way once and you immediately threw your hands up in surrender? You got knocked down a time or two and felt
it necessary to completely call it quits?
Or was it that others didn’t believe in you so you stopped believing in
yourself? What presence or what force
came into your life that was powerful enough to make you to give up on
you? What was it? Who was it?
Well whatever or whoever it was is no good for you and doesn’t deserve a
second of your energy. Your dreams,
goals and aspirations are very attainable no matter what you’ve come to
believe; and it’s while you’re in pursuit of those ambitions that you really
begin to learn your true character. The
real you begins to come alive because you’re now living with purpose which is
exciting. And that brings us back to
Part I of this article (see link below):
being your true self.
If you’re
living your life suppressing your dreams you aren’t being true to you and
you’re denying yourself buckets of happiness.
Don’t you feel you’re worth more than that? Don’t you deserve to live your life to the
fullest and completely enjoy every shred of joy your life could bring? Why not?
Why sit on the sidelines watching others achieve? Why not experience a taste of that life for
yourself? Believe me; it’s VERY
possible.
My name is
Jasmynne Shaye, and this is me STEPPING ON A FEW TOES.
Part I of this article can be found
here: http://steppingonafewtoes.blogspot.com/2013/05/keeping-your-cool-part-i.html
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