The Fucked up thing about dreams and ambitions is that once you reach them. You realize that you aimed too low.
You realize they you didn’t achieve the perceived happiness you thought they would bring forth..You wake up to reality to see that your aim or goal post has actually been moved, they no longer where they use to be.
The close you came to achieve, the further they moved
You come to realize that to catch up with the new goal post, you need to invest the same effort,
But with greater sacrifices as your current situation probable developed a couple of additional responsibilities as your grew older.
That’s the point where you need to make the all important decision:
Do I give up the fight, and stay in this position (Which is actually a goal you achieved from previous Goal setting exercise) or
Do you take the risk, and pursue the next set of ambition or goal you ear marked?
Both decision carries an element of risk.
If you stay, you bound to look back someday, and regret the decision not to fight on
Especially when you observe your peers have taken that risk, and fought on, and got the rewards you envisioned for yourself.
And then again, if you decide to fight on, this choice could actually set you back by losing what you already earned,
example,,
Taking your hard earned savings in invest in your further education or business, only to find you were really not curved for the next step.
If this plans fails, it could be at a point of no return, and you find you lost all your lives investment….
And you risk losing the support and love of the people you bound to neglect in the quest for achieving your goals
(Like your spouse, or kids by not spending enough time with them)
but if it works. You become the point of reference for generations to come.
You become the beacon of hope in the eyes of the people that witnessed your emancipation, and brave moves towards self actualization.
The question one need to ask themselves is….
Do I continue existing, please all the people around me, and die happy surrounded by loved once, or
Do I take the plunge, risk it all, including love, and support from loved once,
and set up a legacy that will outlive both you, and the people (loved once)you will leave the legacy with…
