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Dreaming Is For The Fools
Because the extraordinary has never been particularly sensible.
Dreaming is for the fools, for the wise can’t hold the courage it takes to dream. Their hearts are too full of reason to make room for the unreasonable, too occupied with what is to imagine what could be.
I’ve noticed that whenever you tell someone, ‘I want to become wildly successful at what I do,’ or ‘I want to travel the world without ever having to worry about money,’ or ‘I want to create something the world remembers,’ their immediate response is usually a look of utter disbelief, followed by a rather dismissive laugh, as if you’ve just confessed to killing people for fun.
We as society have become so accustomed to being practical that we’ve forgotten how to entertain the possibility of the extraordinary.
Everything needs a backup plan, a reasonable timeline, a carefully calculated probability of success. We must know our limitations, understand our circumstances and, above all, learn not to expect too much (As if the universe is going to send us an invoice for having too much ambition)
But when was the last time playing it safe made history?
