I am a Journalism Major in Norman, Oklahoma who doesn’t want to talk about news or politics or sports; I want to talk about beauty and fashion. This is relatively unheard of here. I take classes based on writing news stories and I hear a lot of: “You’re never going to get an actual job doing that.”

But I am.

I have a yearly subscription to Cosmopolitan magazine. Before bed, I get on Elle’s website every night to catch up on any articles that I missed. I am subscribed to Vogue, Teen Vogue and Refinery29. When I question my major, I read the first pinned website on my computer, Cosmopolitan's “14 Things to Know Before Majoring in Journalism.”

I know that it doesn’t sound practical, but it’s my plan. My parents encouraged me from a very young age to follow the old cliche: if you love your job, you’ll never work a day in your life. I found my passion and your negativity isn’t going to alter it at all.

I believe in love at first sight and soul mates. I believe in “once in a lifetime” and “meant to be.” And I believe in really “unrealistic” goals. I believe they are totally achievable.

If this makes me a "dreamer," I’m happy to dream. If this makes me "naive," I’ll keep it that way. I have never been afraid of failure and your skeptical words will certainly not change that about me. Nothing will.

I'm really tired of the world framing these qualities as negative ones. No one ever learned anything new by settling. We learn when we fail. We learn when we try for things that are really big.

Derogatory thoughts about someone else’s goals doesn’t make their goals any smaller, it makes you smaller. It makes you the kind of person who gets satisfaction out of attempting to bring people it down. And it makes you someone who is blind to all of the magic out there in the world.

You don't have to agree with my plan. You don’t even have to like it. You don’t have to believe I can accomplish it. But most importantly, you don’t have to share that opinion. I didn’t create goals for you or for anyone else. I created them for myself.

A bit of advice from someone who sees the glass as half full: it's a lot more fun this way. It is refreshing to believe in something bigger than you. Stop tearing people down for having a mindset that is bigger than yours. Whether we succeed or fail, we're going to keep dreaming.

If I'm not afraid to fail, I'm certainly not afraid to hear you say you think I might. You're don't sound like a "realist"- you sound like a jerk.

Trust me when I say that there is a lot of good that comes from believing in the unbelievable.