I DONT believe in chasing Dreams......

I don't believe in chasing dreams.(Warning this is just a convoluted, disorganized nite time rant Be advised that reading this could turn your brain to mush)

When I was a kid , the possibilities for the future seemed endless....A message not so subtly preached by the media and passed on to us at school, was that we could be anything that we wanted to be.....Closely related to that message, was an underlying feeling of entitlement....There was the unstated belief that everyone had a "true calling" and that we should all be able to dedicate ourselves fully to whatever that calling was.........that We should ALL "follow our dreams" because they just might come true.....If this dream following business were so easy, everyone would be millionaires with dynamic and nourishing love lives, flourishing and rewarding careers, warm social lives, and a brilliant spiritual connection....

First, I want to make clear that the last thing I want is to paint myself as someone who does not believe in having a calling or taking a career path that you're passionate about....I simply feel that not ENOUGH emphasis is placed on the great sacrifice that is necessary to excel in LIFE in general or more specifically, in a given field...We are not entitled to success,health, happiness, wealth, or respect....We must figure out what we want to achieve, and then go out and expect to TOIL smart and hard to get there ..BUT That to me is not "chasing one's dreams". That is being on a MISSION. It is masterminding a game plan and giving everything you have to achieving that goal.....The words SACRIFICE and FOCUS come to mind......

A dream is unfulfilled desire floating listlessly in the ether of our grey matter.......I have dreams but they are of little consequence....I'd love to have a ski boat on a beautiful mountain lake or buy a vacation home in Brazil....or spend 6 months at a Buddhist monastery in Japan....However,I've done nothing to make any of those dreams a reality and I probably never will....They are harmless topics of conversation...They are a pleasant fantasy land to visit while waiting in line at the grocery store on a Sunday afternoon or while enduring a couple hours of dental work.

We are all mounds of flesh endowed with a brain and a spirit....and thus I believe to a very large extent, our own creation...We mold ourselves out of the clay we are given at birth influenced to varying degrees by life circumstances and our reactions to things we cannot control...

We mold ourselves and chart our life's course...Dreams don't come true....Missions are often accomplished though....Expecting a dream to magically come true is like betting our life's fortune on the weather and being crushed when it rains. ...Dreams are for those languishing in the bone dry dessert of the infinitely unfulfilled and serially disappointed....Missions are something entirely different.They are for the hard working, focused, courageous types...Missions are possible. Dreams are for the weak minded and frail hearted.