Giving up on your dreams

The world, through movies and music, is telling you to hold on tight to your dreams, never give up and so on. As I already pointed out in this post, that depends a lot on your dreams. Dreaming too big can prevent you from reaching a level of happiness that is accessible to you.

A pinch of realism is always good when you're dreaming. You have to try to evaluate yourself and your ability to reach those dreams constantly, before deciding whether or not to hold on to them. Still, sometimes even if you have this great voice you don't get to be a rock star. Sometimes whether or not dreams come true doesn't depend on you.

But what you really have to realize is what is truly important to you. Why you really have that dream and what is the really important part, the one that will truly make you happy. And then, when the dream in itself seems unreachable, focus on that truly important part and figure out some other way to get it. Life can still surprise you.

The saddest moment in your life is when you decide that none of your dreams will come true. That's one moment I don't wish on anyone, but a moment that comes to too many of us. What do you do when you can't even see a way for the faintest and remotest part of the dream to come true?

The little idealist left in me says "find another dream". If you have it in you to do so, do so. There's nothing worse in life than lack of purpose and direction. You can compensate everything else, except that. Life without a purpose is a life wasted, it's a life where you just wait to die. It's not a life at all.