Making Our Dreams A Reality: Not Living in a World of Fantasy

Many of us spent most of our formative years wishing we were anywhere but in that present moment.

Willing life to happen, seeking evolution or escape, from the realities we felt were lacking in some way, shape or form. Years later, a lot of us still indulge in these same practices, willing time away, losing the opportunity to seize the day.

We live vicariously through our screens, willing for lives that could’ve been, should’ve been, and might’ve been… If we took the chance, rather than condemn ourselves to our daydreams.

Dreams were always meant to be a gateway, never a prison. Our dreams should inspire action, excitement and frenzy… yet most just feel disillusioned. Unable to gather up enough motivation to bridge the gap between fantasy and reality. Too afraid to hope, letting the fear dressed up as pragmatism stomp out the bits and pieces of the courage we had within us.

Dream big, and follow it with action and reaction.

It’s not as though we never dared to try.

We just hadn’t thought to rise after the fall.

Never fully understanding that failure is the most valuable life lesson of them all. Not a definition, but its own inherent signal of progression, if we pick ourselves up, and if we push ourselves forward.

Too often we allow our moments of defeat to define us. When really, they serve as the critical life lessons that inform us. In every moment learning, in every instance growing.

Pain is a conduit to potential, yet still, it is too often the road less travelled.

There will be pain when we choose to make our dream a reality, and worse pain awaits if we allow ourselves to stay stuck, if we opt out of growth and choose to stay stagnant,

Many people are where they and are who they are because they experienced failure and then they quit. Giving up on their dreams and in doing so, giving up on themselves. Shells of the person we stand to become, if we chose to never give up, if we recognized that no matter the odds or the circumstances… if we’re still waking up then we’re still in the game.

So, play.

Get out of auto-pilot, cast the worries and fears away, and do the thing you’ve been thinking of doing for a while.

Do it for you.

And for once, silence the version of you who is so good at talking you out of doing the things that you know are inherently good for you.

Ultimately, we only get one life. Not just to exist, but to live.

Live to the fullest, by daring to be the boldest and unashamedly self-assured.

Chase after your dreams however frequently they may change.

Remind yourself that how you show, effects the ways that other people show up around you.

The power and the pressure of living: If we can only do it once, let’s do our best to live without regret.

Live this life being daring, being vulnerable, and being bold. Life is a blank canvas, daring you to make colours that make you shine, that bring the light, bringing us into the present, and pulling us away from ruminating about a future still unknown.

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