I’ve been a dreamer my entire life and I honestly don’t know what being realistic even means. Every time I think of a goal or a dream I want to pursue, I don’t consider whether it is possible to actually achieve it. I never have. And I never will.
The people around me have been telling me this for years, but this past year has shown me why I shouldn’t listen. This year alone I have realized what my dream job is, declared a major that will help me get that job, started a new medicine that is helping me get stronger (I have a disease that makes my muscles weak), and rediscovered my faith like never before.
There were people who told me that the medicine I’m getting wouldn’t work and that I wasn’t going to get stronger. I was told I wouldn’t be able to get around college by myself. I was told I would never be a writer. I was told that all of the dreams I had were most likely not going to come true. I was told that everything I am doing now was never going to happen.
Hours after I received the first dose of the medicine I was stronger and I still continue to get stronger every day. I’ve been going to my classes by myself since the first day of college and I have even gotten around the city near campus completely by myself. And most importantly, I’m chasing my dream of being a writer. I’m writing almost every day and I’m about to start an internship at a major company. These things, in the minds of others, were supposedly impossible for me to achieve, but somehow I still did it. And I’m nowhere near finished.
If I had been thinking realistically during those times, I would have given up and wouldn’t have tried so hard since it was supposed to be impossible.
I would have been thinking like the people around me.
If everyone tried to be realistic when chasing after their dreams, we wouldn’t have a lot of things we do today. We wouldn’t have Disney World or any Disney movies. We wouldn’t have our IPhones and Macs. We wouldn’t have our favorite songs or our favorite books. So many things would be missing from our lives—the people who created these things would’ve probably given up and never tried to actually create them if they thought like that.
I will never be realistic when it comes to going after my dreams and that’s okay. Reality is boring anyway.
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney