Follow Your Dream
Do you still remember the time when you knew that when you grew up you would be a doctor, an engineer or a cricketer? An explorer, a millionaire or a deep sea diver?
In your mind you had no doubt about these things becoming reality.
Then life happened. Reality check: your parents could not afford to pay the capitation fee to get a medical or engineering seat, you were not born to a royal family, and horses were too expensive to keep. Everything seemed to have been explored already, money did not grow on trees and you could not get a vacation to go deep sea diving - and you had no time for a diving course.
Sound familiar?
Same happened to me too. I wanted to be an artist, an Egyptologist, own my own horse farm and of course be a millionaire.
I went to a university - because I got in at first try. I was to be a translator and an interpreter. Well - here where I live university studies are basically free. But you have to pay for your living all the same. My parents were not rich. So eventually I dropped out of the university and went to work because we needed to pay the rent.
I did not feel bitter because of it - life was so interesting anyway, and I had always studied things I like on my own.
You know what happens after a few years? The dreams you thought you had safely buried as nonsense refuse to die. One day they come back. And that's when it gets interesting.
You see, we don't like being reminded of our old dreams. After all remembering them makes us realize how many years have gone by. Years we could have used to pursue our dreams. If we had the money, the time, the teachers, if we lived here or there, if we had the brains...
Why do we do this? Deny our dreams?
I think one of the reasons is that we see our dreams as too big a project.
Studying something that interests you. "It doesn't bring in money, so what's the use. I will never be a doctor, so why bother?"
I started looking at the people around me. There are those who deny their dreams and seem to go bitter each passing year. And then there are those who started to follow their dreams only as adults.
When you follow your dream, and give yourself the gift of doing something you love just because you love it - you'll be surprised how happy you can feel as a result. And you can do the same. What is it that interests you most? What if you opened the door and let your dream come out into the daylight? What little step could you take to make this dream a reality?
What if you took that step?
Follow your dream and make it realize.
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