When I went out into the world, all I had with me was a dream that I cherished dearly, because I had nothing better to cling to. I plunged into the unknown, dragging behind me the thought conveyed by my family when I left, that I was just a dreamer without much prospects, because I was not willing to make the compromises that others around me were making in order to get a good position in society. It was painful to realize that my parents didn’t trust me, I felt rejected, invalidated, I felt like the wings I had tried to fly with had been cut off.
Despite all the obstacles, despite the difficult period I was going through, changing several rents due to lack of money, I continued to dream, to tell myself that I would succeed on my own, that I had learned to overcome many difficulties by then. I had nothing but that dream pulling me forward. I made new wings and learned to fly, to believe in myself, to act in the direction of my dream. I took steps every day in his direction, preparing for a difficult exam, which I passed not only because I tried, but because so many others tried the same as me and failed. I succeeded because I had a dream, which I followed as the most precious thing I had.
I continued to dream ever since, although I was often told by those around me to keep my feet on the ground, because dreams are for dreamers, being considered more of a waste of time. I listened to the voice of my soul that asked me to move forward, always reminding myself that the trials I went through made me overcome many obstacles, becoming who I am today and it is my duty to continue.
It is the duty of each of us to use our resources to the fullest to create a future the way we want to, not to let others destroy our dreams, to know that others have no power to do it if we don’t let them, to know that only we can destroy our dreams, doing nothing towards them, waiting for opportunities in a future that does not exist and that we can only create in the present moment. If I want to train for a competition I do it every day starting today, I don’t delude myself into thinking that I will train someday, a time that often never comes.
The created dream requires keeping it in mind for a sufficient amount of time. For it to materialize, it requires patience, waiting for the right moment for it to be fulfilled and, at the same time, it requires us to take concrete steps towards its materialization.
Many prioritize the mental, without which we could not survive. It is true, without the mind we cannot survive, because we would not be able to adapt to the conditions of the environment in which we live, but neither can we get far by only listening to the voice of the mind. The more mental someone is, the more arguments he finds that prevent him from acting in the direction of his dream, allowing him to be overwhelmed by fears and anxieties. Those who advance in the direction of their own dream do not have many arguments, they constantly step towards it guided by intuition and the confidence that comes from within, using the mind to move forward and find opportunities to act, not justifications for their own impotence.
Suffering and other emotions are the fuel that keeps us moving forward, but when the car’s engine isn’t strong enough, we waste fuel by putting on too many brakes, complaining, victimizing ourselves, and looking for excuses to keep us in pain, such as the fact that we are weak, that it is better to settle for a little while, that life is hard, that the world is bad, that it is not worth taking risks. The same fuel that, used by a car with a high-powered engine, makes it move forward more and more in the drawn direction, without too many brakes, because a high momentum leads to a fast movement towards the fulfillment of the dream.
The more we let time pass, without taking steps day by day in the direction of our dream, the more the machine grinds, losing its power and stagnating, and in the end it seems to us that that power never even existed, that it was an illusion and that it is better that we did not act, because we would not have succeeded. So we were complacent in our own limitations to which we gave voice more and more by the fact that we did not take steps in the direction of our own dream.
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