Sometimes I feel down. Sometimes I’m filled with doubt. Sometimes I feel like life is too hard to bear. It’s a huge struggle.
The idea of trying to continue on towards fulfilling your dreams seems out of reach, out of touch. When you’ve been trying to progress towards achieving your dreams and turning them into your reality for a long time, at a certain point… it feels like what’s the point. Why even try.
When I get these feelings it’s when I cringe inside, when I feel a lack of purpose, lack of certainty, and lack of hope. It’s in these moments that I feel like I’ve lost a sense of myself and who it is that I believe I can become.
It’s numbing.
In my moments of despair, I try to read something motivational, try to surround myself with people who can encourage me, and try to bring myself into understanding that the dreams placed within me are for me to fulfill and that I can fulfill. Despite the setbacks, despite the pain, despite the tremendous effort, eventually the tide will turn. Not only that, but it has to eventually turn. My great effort, persistence, and commitment make it so that the doors have to eventually open. All the greats say this. History proves this. My dreams were not placed in me to be wasted. They were placed within me to carry out, to see them through. I am the only person who can stop me.
But you know, there have been so many of us who have wasted our dreams. We decided to settle and to become complacent. We allowed fear, challenges, naysayers, and all kinds of negativity to get in the way of what we once imagined or believed possible for ourselves. We have break through these limitations. We have to stop limiting what’s been placed inside of us.
Our dreams can only come true when we choose to overcome the day-by-day challenges that get in the way. Despite the hardships and the inner battles, we have to make the decision to press forward, to tap into the great dreams that have been placed within us. The fact that we are still here proves that these dreams are possible and meant to be fulfilled by only us.
We can never waste the reality of who we were, who we can become, and all that has been placed within us to fulfill. We have to overcome our doubt, sadness, and despair to step into achieving all we dream and beyond.