Keep the dream alive

Lately I have been thinking a lot about life (yeah I know I am kind of a thinker/philosopher at my lost time) but mostly about the choices and decisions we make. Not decision such as what am I going to wear tomorrow or will I have the tomato soup or the noodles for lunch. I have been thinking about decisions that make our lives take the turns they are taking, decisions such as starting a new business, quitting your job to become I don’t know.. a full time painter or writer? Decision such as listening to your heart and follow your gut in doing what you think is right for you to do. When encountering adversity it can be really difficult to keep going with what you have in your mind. Adversity is not always people preventing you to achieve what you have in your mind and in your heart. It could also be represented as situations that are the opposite of what you were expecting so that when you are in the process of creating your happiness through realizing your dream the only questions that comes constantly in your mind are: is it worth doing all this? Will I ever be able to make it? What if I don’t?

It can be very challenging to face those times of trials and opposition especially when everyone else’s vision is different from yours. Most people walk by what they see and they don’t see what is in your heart and what is in your mind. They can’t envision what the achievement you are trying to reach today might represent for your life tomorrow; they can’t understand why you are so eager to make that vision come true because they don’t know what it means to you and how it might reshape your life in a totally new, positive way.

All they see sometimes are the fails, the flaws in your attempts to make the dream or the vision alive. They see your “vain” efforts and the amount of time you invest in order to see it happen and when they don’t see it happen in a timely manner, they might try to bring you down voluntarily or involuntarily. And you might get discouraged because you will look at all those sacrifices you made and how much you put your heart, time, strength and sweat to realize that dream/vision. And it is perfectly fine! It is okay to get discouraged, to cry, and to run out of strength and motivation as long as you plan on getting back on your feet later! Giving life to a vision or making a dream come true is much more like working on math problems. The more you practice, the better you get and it doesn’t happen all in one day and of course it is hard sometime! It takes months and sometimes years just to get to be among the good students and then from there you build up some more skills to upgrade and be among the best students and so on.

I remember when I first started writing it was just for me a way to feel alive, free. Then I stopped for years went back again onto writing few months ago and then I started the blog. I was so happy, so motivated and I was like this is it! Finally I get to do something that I like and make people enjoy it. I had never imagined it would be so hard to get things started. I remember there were times I didn’t have a single view for month. I was thinking about closing it down and going back to my old boring life where I will be writing on paper keep in in one of my numerous binders. But then I realized that I needed more than that to get me down, I needed more than people telling me that it was a waste of time to let go of it. Of course I got discouraged and tired and frustrated at times but I remembered that I had to be patient and to demonstrate perseverance to see my vision get into shape. I needed to have faith, to believe that I could make it and find the strength in me to keep going and make it happen. And I made it. Even though there is still a lot to do knowing that I have started not long ago, I am proud of what I have achieved and everyday I bow my head and pray to get the strength I need to keep believing and fighting to keep my dream alive.

Today I would like to encourage you to persevere, to believe and fight to keep the dream alive. It is your dream, your vision; don’t let people or circumstances prevent you to be where you want to be and where you know you can be. When you feel like you can’t do it anymore remember that you haven’t come so far to let it go now. It will certainly take time but you need to be patient, to take one day at the time and to do one step after the other. You will be amazed by what you can do and people will be even more amazed seeing you achieve when they thought and said you wouldn’t. So don’t give up so early, keep trying because the most important is not how many times you have tried, the most important is to keep the dream alive and make it come true.