Most People Will Never Achieve Their Dreams.
Here’s exactly why.
The sun’s beating down, 35°C.
I walk back and forth through the house carrying timber, piecing together frames, as the minutes tick by.
My mind filled like an outrageously loud sound system stuck on repeat.
It’s like Groundhog Day with the difficulty cranked to max.
Just a few years before, I was living what I thought was the dream.
Driving around, smoking weed, kicking back, moving through life without any goal in sight.
An ignorant bliss void of aspiration or any understanding of the real world.
A fantasy that never lasts.
Every day I think about escaping where I am now.
The thought of working a hard labor job for the rest of my life — one that gives me zero satisfaction — scares me to death. I ask myself daily when my big break will come.
The endless work that seems to compile to nothing.
The emotional numbness and pain that follows.
The bar set so high, I wonder if I’ll ever reach it — if I’ll ever feel that feeling.
A feeling of success; of being proud.
So I’m left to suffer in discipline and hard work, with no guarantee of a payoff; or settle for a mediocre existence and call it my own. **I say no. No to the ignorance. No to the easy road. No to a life without challenge. Because what is life if not the greatest challenge of all? To live, learn, experience, and trek through the mud when the path beside seems so much easier.
I watch every day as people choose to take the easy road; one that isn’t filled with mental anguish, stress, and loneliness; and you know what, I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t push my lifestyle onto anyone who didn’t want it. But what kind of person do you really want to be then? Step back and look at yourself. Not the person you are when you’re at your greatest around others, but when you’re alone, the house is quiet, and when no one else is watching but you. Who are you then? That’s the only version of you that truly matters.
