Dream a little dream…

In a world of cynics, it’s easy to lose sight of the power that you have to turn your dreams into reality.

Your efforts become more daunting when faced with an endless barrage of naysayers who only see your potential through their own fears.

Sincere advisors are often driven by fear, and thus focus on protecting you from their fears of what failure may bring.

So you slowly give up on your dream as a fantasy, while using its promise as fuel to cope with your reality.

When you maintain clear boundaries between the two, you convince yourself that dreaming is an irresponsible indulgence of youth, while reality is for adulting.

Without meaning to, you adopted the fears of those around you, and measured your success by how much you could exceed their expectations within the frame of fear that they painted for you.

Beauty is lost, endearments become fickle expressions of lightness, and death becomes the morbid milestone by which you gauge how much capacity you will need to keep going.

All this because you believed others when they disbelieved in you.

Your dreams are yours to abandon, or yours to claim.

But if you’re trying to claim a dream that is intricately woven around the presence of another, brace yourself for the anguish that accompanies a lifetime of trying to convince them that achieving your dream is possible, when the events of their life convinced them not to try.

Dream with abandon, and live with courage.

If you don’t, the regret will be yours to court, and dreaming will become a cynical taunt that feels like a nightmare.

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