So the other day, this friend of mine showed me a video about fear and how we can let it consume us and our dreams. I don't mean that spiderweb in the corner you haven't touched since you got to the house, or that one person you see in a trench coat that you steer clear of on your morning route, but the fear of failing, of not achieving our dreams.
You see, most people let their fear of failure stop them from achieving or even attempting to reach for your dreams. Whether it's to become a renowned author or a bodyguard or perhaps a ballerina, (even though you're 6"2 and built like a mountain) we each have a dream that we keep in the corner of our minds whenever we daydream or fantasize. Now I'm not here to tell you how to live your life. I'm simply here to offer advice on your path. We all need reminding once in a while that we are special, that we do matter; no one can sing the way you can, can write the way you can - hell, no one can twirl in a pink tutu the way you do - and once you remember that, once you find your feet and your own style, then that fear, that big, scary fear, suddenly isn't so big and scary anymore.
I'm not saying that it's easy to do, no sir, it's not easy by any means, but what I can say that it is possible. After all, there is a reason they're called dreams and not say, 'realities'. The road will be hard and lonely at times - there are things that you must face alone; success can be a lonely path, and they will seem like impassable mountains in your way. There will be failures along that path; failure is inevitable in this road that is life, but 'I failed' is infinitely better than 'what if', because 'what if' never went to the arena, never lost, but never won either. And it's when you're down, when you fall from the path towards your dream, when you collapse from exhaustion, when you have nothing left, when you find that you want this dream as bad as life itself, that's when you cannot give in; when you find motivation that you didn't have, when you use energy that didn't exist, when you get back up on that path, and when you reach that dream, and you look back, that's when you realize that you are strong, and you are capable, and that you can rise and have risen above your fears, that you can do anything, because its not over, it's never over, not until you win.
Dedicated to Tim, for motivating me like no one else had done before.
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer
