Following your dreams
Posted 27th October 2009 at 09:48 AM by Laugh Or Cry TV
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Hi all,
I’m not writing this blog because these are my current thoughts. I learnt these lessons over a decade ago, but wrote this so it is on my website, in case it helps someone else.
I work on Laugh or Cry TV and other projects for fun. It has come to my attention that lots of people do not understand it if you say to them that you want to follow your dreams. They simply do not comprehend that you only have one life and it is for living. To them, the chances of success being slim mean that they do not even attempt to follow their dreams. Their definition of success is wildly different to mine. Mine is that if you spend each day doing what makes you happy, you are having a successful life. However, they will let their parents determine their career choice (luckily mine are wildly supportive anyway, which is a bonus).
When I was 7 I said I wanted to be in show business. But some people who I worked with at a normal job would question me endlessly: ‘what’s the chances of it being a success, though?’ It seems that they care too much what others think of them to even try and follow their dreams. Or perhaps they think celebrities are of a different species to themselves. Of course, celebrities may be born with talent. But they work hard to achieve what they have achieved, too. Most of the time, it’s no accident. Stories of how celebrities came to be will often show you that they have endured many setbacks, but kept going. In other words, take a celebrity and rewind to when they were just starting out: the chances would have looked slim for them, too, at that time. Yet this does not enter the mind of someone who criticizes one’s dreams; they continue to criticize. Someone who criticizes does so to make them feel better about themselves. Like how bullies bully because of their own insecurities.
We wouldn't be living in houses today or be on the Internet if people didn’t think outside the box. To me, it is INSANE that most people don’t dare to live. I have some people in my life that never praise my unorthodox achievements because they cannot relate. To me, I can’t understand them, except I’m in the minority. It’s not that they’re happy in normal jobs: they’re neither unhappy or happy. They simply do not question it. I’m not saying it is wrong to have a normal job, either. If you thought I was saying that, I’m not sure where to begin to explain this piece of writing.
Most people who read this will understand what I’ve said. But to a select few it will have it really hit home. To those few: remember, there are people out there who think the same, even though it doesn’t seem like it. The general public doesn’t really annoy you for the sake of it; they don’t know they’re doing it. So don’t let it annoy you (I don’t).
This life is all you have. Follow your dreams, and **** everyone else.
Edward.
http://www.laughorcrytv.com
I’m not writing this blog because these are my current thoughts. I learnt these lessons over a decade ago, but wrote this so it is on my website, in case it helps someone else.
I work on Laugh or Cry TV and other projects for fun. It has come to my attention that lots of people do not understand it if you say to them that you want to follow your dreams. They simply do not comprehend that you only have one life and it is for living. To them, the chances of success being slim mean that they do not even attempt to follow their dreams. Their definition of success is wildly different to mine. Mine is that if you spend each day doing what makes you happy, you are having a successful life. However, they will let their parents determine their career choice (luckily mine are wildly supportive anyway, which is a bonus).
When I was 7 I said I wanted to be in show business. But some people who I worked with at a normal job would question me endlessly: ‘what’s the chances of it being a success, though?’ It seems that they care too much what others think of them to even try and follow their dreams. Or perhaps they think celebrities are of a different species to themselves. Of course, celebrities may be born with talent. But they work hard to achieve what they have achieved, too. Most of the time, it’s no accident. Stories of how celebrities came to be will often show you that they have endured many setbacks, but kept going. In other words, take a celebrity and rewind to when they were just starting out: the chances would have looked slim for them, too, at that time. Yet this does not enter the mind of someone who criticizes one’s dreams; they continue to criticize. Someone who criticizes does so to make them feel better about themselves. Like how bullies bully because of their own insecurities.
We wouldn't be living in houses today or be on the Internet if people didn’t think outside the box. To me, it is INSANE that most people don’t dare to live. I have some people in my life that never praise my unorthodox achievements because they cannot relate. To me, I can’t understand them, except I’m in the minority. It’s not that they’re happy in normal jobs: they’re neither unhappy or happy. They simply do not question it. I’m not saying it is wrong to have a normal job, either. If you thought I was saying that, I’m not sure where to begin to explain this piece of writing.
Most people who read this will understand what I’ve said. But to a select few it will have it really hit home. To those few: remember, there are people out there who think the same, even though it doesn’t seem like it. The general public doesn’t really annoy you for the sake of it; they don’t know they’re doing it. So don’t let it annoy you (I don’t).
This life is all you have. Follow your dreams, and **** everyone else.
Edward.
http://www.laughorcrytv.com
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