Anyone’s pretty much ready to spill out what they fear or what they hate.
I’m sure you know exactly what you dislike about your girlfriend or your boyfriend. And your parents, don’t they do exactly that thing that pisses you off every day? Goddamn it, your friends drive you crazy from time to time, don’t they?
I bet they do.
But wait.
What do you love? If there was anything that would make you feel alive right now, what would it be? Have you ever imagined a perfect scenario and placed yourself right in the middle of it?
…
No, I mean
really.
Even if you have, I bet you gave up a few seconds later, while muttering to yourself how daydreaming is useless or just…well,
that. We’re led to reject these visions ‘cause we don’t believe in them. Not for a second, at all. I mean, why should we?
We stuff into our heads a million reasons why we can’t, why we’re too short, too thin, too fat, too weak, too scared, or too unfit.
And so we can’t, we shouldn’t, we weren’t supposed to, and it’d be too risky, it’d be too expensive, it’d be too crazy, too dumb, too far, too useless or too stupid!
What would your friends say? And your mom? Oh she would freak out, for sure. What if you couldn’t succeed? What if people would laugh at you? What if I lost all my money? What if my plane crashed?!
Ok. Hold on, pal...
Allow me to abruptly change the subject.
What are your dreams made of? What would you be without them? I mean, is there a greater desire, or greater provider of Will? I read somewhere that dreaming is what sets us apart from machines. And, honestly, when I’m walking around it is all I see. People lack that sparkle in their eye. No sparkle. You'll probably settle with the convenient person, instead of going after the one you love. You'll get that 9 to 5 job instead of following your real talent. You'll have the number of kids your mom always dreamt you would. And probably a car. And a dog. Living and dying. Out there’s just a jungle of existence.
Only that.
And
that is not what we need.
So, please, think of what you’d do if you could be or have anything you wanted.
You’re not too dumb. You’re not too poor. You're not too weird. You’re not too late…
I just watched a movie. A shrink told this girl, who had tried to commit suicide, that she was going to die in a matter of weeks from an aneurism. A few days later, the will to die just vanished and she was led to perceive each day she had left as a miracle. So she went and did everything she had always wished she had done.
No matter how insane.
Interesting, isn’t it? And yet, the prettiest thing is that each day really is a
miracle. That is why you should see it as that. That is why you should go after what you want. That is why you should do it right now.
No matter how insane.
So…if you were to die in a matter of weeks, what would you do?
Now please: Do it!
