Avoid the dream killers and set sail on an adventure
- Michelle Wood: SWCD
- May 19, 2014
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We have all heard someone call another person with a dream “just a dreamer.” They can't see that dream coming to pass so they ridicule the person with the dream. If we are going to see our dreams come into the light of reality we must be able to withstand the bombardment of ridicule from other people who doesn't share the same vision for our lives. Sometimes we have to be willing to let what they say roll off our backs. Ridicule can come out of concern for our well being, people don't want to see us crash and burn; or other times it is out of jealousy that we are doing something that others only imagined as a far off dream. Those people are dream killers.
A dream killer is one of the worst kinds of people to be around. They are constantly negative and bringing everyone else down to their low level. Telling their children that they will never amount to much, continually knocking people's beliefs about themselves and what God put in them. Those are the kind of people to avoid.
Writing is my dream and my passion, yet I have had my fair share of dream killers trying to derail me from where I am today. Those who said “what makes you think that you could become a writer, you have trouble with spelling. You don't have the right educational background. It's a lot of hard work, so just forget about it, and very few people make it.” For a long time I listened to that hogwash, and thought that there was nothing special about me. I was just another face in the crowd, but something deep down within my bones kept on prodding me to start writing and see what becomes of it. Now I am so grateful that I chose to ignore my would be dream killers and decided to take a risk and pursue my dream.
One of the most difficult things to do in life is to press on toward the dream that is burning inside all of us. Not only will we have those dream killers against us, but sometimes we will even be against ourselves. You see, inside your brain there will be an inner struggle, a battle if the will, that is going to tell you you are being one big fool. It will help you come up with every reason in the world as to why you can't accomplish your dreams. We all need people who can be honest with us, somebody we trust and someone who loves us and wants the best for us. Sometimes the dream we have been chasing for so long isn't the best for us. A true friend who loves you and believes in you can correctly evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, and make suggestions accordingly. Sometimes people make suggestions about things we never thought of, and it makes good common sense, this can help us create a new dream.
To give up on one's dreams is a tragedy, but to be talked out of one's dreams is appalling. Let's say that your dream is to learn how to fly, you wouldn't just get into a plane and take off. You would do research on the topic, and get the money together to take lessons. You have to take classes, log a designated number of hours with an instructor and fly solo. A lot of hard work and time is spent obtaining your pilot's license. If you can accomplish your dream easily it isn't big enough, a dream is designed to make you reach down deep inside of your being and pull out something magnificent. Dreams are things that you didn't even know you had inside of you. Mark Twain was right when he said, “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch a trade wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”