DISCLAIMER!!!
THIS IS NOT A SHITTY MOTIVATIONAL INSPIRATIONAL BULLSHIT POST.
There. Now, that we've got that past us, here's a simple challenge, I'd like to throw at YOU, beloved reader.
I dare you to dream.
No, I'm not going to tell you to follow your dreams, i'm not going to tell you to dare TO dream.... its a dare FOR you to dream. No you're not a unique snowflake. Get over it. Take up the dare.
I dare you to step outside your comfort zone and to actually take up something you've never done before.
I dare you to not get discouraged when you try to make a point and someone tells you to shut up.
I dare you to keep going! Even if everyone laughs at what you're doing and tells you "You'll never make it."
I dare you to speak. God gave you a voice. Use it. I dare you to channel your anger against people who deserve it as opposed to people who don't.
I dare you to try something new. Sing a song, even if cats cry when you sing. Draw, even if a kindergarten kid gets a better drawing grade than you. Play the guitar, even if you don't own one....
The whole point of this post is, that people automatically associate dare to dream, with images like this
But sometimes, the inspirational stuff always goes over your head... If I was depressed and somebody tried to show me those kind of images to inspire me, I would most probably learn to not turn to that same person the next time I needed a shoulder to cry on.
Inspiration doesn't come from images and text, its impossible to draw inspiration from that.
You can only dream and be inspired, most effectively, by example. There are some people who are inspired by their favourite celebrities... I say, good for you buddy, but you'd most probably do better to look for inspiration much closer to you. Inspiration doesn't come from great people who claim to have achieved things, inspiration can come from little things. Things that other people may take for granted. Small words of encouragement, tiny pearls of hope, scattered on the sands of time... Quick! Pick them up before they roll away!
I still remember this simple quote, that inspires me till date. I put this quote before all that I do and I have spread the word to at least 5 other people. (I consider that a huge success.)
"The toughest steel has to go through the hottest of fires."
In the end, the sad fact that even if you're inspired to dare to dream or to follow your dreams, the system is pretty messed up and you may not achieve your dream in the first shot. What system am I referring to? Any system really. I'm pretty confident when I say that This is applicable to any system you might have in mind.
So what do we do when we want to bend, but the system tells us to be rigid? You make the system bend with you, thats what you do. You move. Thats the trick, keep constantly moving. The system will move with you, trying its hardest to stop you, but it won't be able to, beyond a point. It is at this point, you can confidently say that you have followed your dreams and will be catapulted towards being free from the pointless ramshackles of society.
I'd like to end this with a quote about perspective.
"We're all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
- Oscar Wilde.
THIS IS NOT A SHITTY MOTIVATIONAL INSPIRATIONAL BULLSHIT POST.
There. Now, that we've got that past us, here's a simple challenge, I'd like to throw at YOU, beloved reader.
I dare you to dream.
No, I'm not going to tell you to follow your dreams, i'm not going to tell you to dare TO dream.... its a dare FOR you to dream. No you're not a unique snowflake. Get over it. Take up the dare.
I dare you to step outside your comfort zone and to actually take up something you've never done before.
I dare you to not get discouraged when you try to make a point and someone tells you to shut up.
I dare you to keep going! Even if everyone laughs at what you're doing and tells you "You'll never make it."
I dare you to speak. God gave you a voice. Use it. I dare you to channel your anger against people who deserve it as opposed to people who don't.
I dare you to try something new. Sing a song, even if cats cry when you sing. Draw, even if a kindergarten kid gets a better drawing grade than you. Play the guitar, even if you don't own one....
The whole point of this post is, that people automatically associate dare to dream, with images like this
or this...
or maybe even this...
But sometimes, the inspirational stuff always goes over your head... If I was depressed and somebody tried to show me those kind of images to inspire me, I would most probably learn to not turn to that same person the next time I needed a shoulder to cry on.
Inspiration doesn't come from images and text, its impossible to draw inspiration from that.
You can only dream and be inspired, most effectively, by example. There are some people who are inspired by their favourite celebrities... I say, good for you buddy, but you'd most probably do better to look for inspiration much closer to you. Inspiration doesn't come from great people who claim to have achieved things, inspiration can come from little things. Things that other people may take for granted. Small words of encouragement, tiny pearls of hope, scattered on the sands of time... Quick! Pick them up before they roll away!
I still remember this simple quote, that inspires me till date. I put this quote before all that I do and I have spread the word to at least 5 other people. (I consider that a huge success.)
"The toughest steel has to go through the hottest of fires."
In the end, the sad fact that even if you're inspired to dare to dream or to follow your dreams, the system is pretty messed up and you may not achieve your dream in the first shot. What system am I referring to? Any system really. I'm pretty confident when I say that This is applicable to any system you might have in mind.
So what do we do when we want to bend, but the system tells us to be rigid? You make the system bend with you, thats what you do. You move. Thats the trick, keep constantly moving. The system will move with you, trying its hardest to stop you, but it won't be able to, beyond a point. It is at this point, you can confidently say that you have followed your dreams and will be catapulted towards being free from the pointless ramshackles of society.
I'd like to end this with a quote about perspective.
"We're all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
- Oscar Wilde.
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