All your life you grow up with a plan that has already seemed to be created for you either by your parents, grandparents or close relatives, but it mainly comes from society. It's the outline of the ideal life. You grow up, go to school, go to college, get a stable job, get married and have kids. Then you tell your kids, that they need to go to school, to go to college, to get a stable job, to get married so they can have kids of their own. And one by one it seems as you need to check those tasks off the grand to-do list. And if you don't, then all that resides is the underlying feeling that you have disappointed someone along the way.
Throughout my life, a particular question has continually wandered trough my mind (and I'm sure many of you has had this question run through your mind as well): "What if you were to just drop everything and change your life to the one you dream for, the one you wish for?" Simply put, you would be defying the set outline that has seemed to be planned out for your life.
Yet either you or I have dropped our current life or routine. Our feet remain stationary because we are so afraid of the repercussions that might result. If only there were a way to do both, to live your ideal life and to live a realistic one as well. And maybe your ideal life is to grow up, have a stable, job, get married and have kids and that is fine. But there must some dream that is welling up inside that you keep suppressing.
Bet yet, year after year as you continue to grow older you keep it locked away. And each time it comes to the brink of escaping you continually push it down further and further to the point of it being almost completely eliminated from your entire being completely. But yet, deep deep down, a sliver of your soul clings onto it because, it's your dream, it's what you truly want.
There's a quote that is continually flashed across my Pinterest feed and its, "If your dreams don't scare you they aren't big enough." And of course I do agree with that completely, but has anyone ever considered the fact that maybe it's the smallest changes you make to your life that are the ones that are the scariest? Because it's changing your routine that has embedded its way into your life that is truly some of the scariest challenges you will ever face. But, it's the smaller changes that make your dreams reality, your ideal life becomes realistic.
But instead of being overruled by the fear that seems to be constantly on your mind, try and making it fear you instead. Control the fear and realize that implementing those small changes can be great. Because those small changes are the changes that get you to your dream. They are the changes that help you live the life that you want to live. They are the changes that will make you no longer have to surpress those dreams. And it's only then that you will realize that your feet are no longer stationary.
