Pursuing The Dream

Having a dream that’s in pursuit of something more than you currently have can be a blessing. It motivates you, inspires and excites you. It’s as if it activates a fire inside you that fuels some kind of purpose as to why you struggle and grind through the difficulty.

The downside of the dream can be lack of appreciation for where you are in life, always casting your focus in the future and not enjoying the present and adding additional stress and chaos on your life for something you don’t have.

It’s a challenge. A difficult life to life and a weird one at that. It’s as if you are warping the lens that you look through life. It blurs your motives, actions and intentions. Are you doing things for the present you or the future you. And why is the future so compelling that the present is not. Why can you not life in the present with as much motivation as you have towards pursuing something you don’t have.

It’s a paradox. A road that few understand and most prefer to shy away from. Some find the peace they are looking for because it’s lonely and quiet. Others might like all the things, freedom and possessions that come with obtaining those future goals.

Whatever the motive, whatever the purpose it does at least excite. It does at the very least give color to a black and white life. Especially for those that want a vivid life. The ones that would give up everything for something better. The ones that know they are not living their best version of life that they feel they are capable of.

The black and white life feels boring, bland and easy to achieve. Like, why even life it. It’s just going through the motions and doesn’t enrich the soul. The difficulties and challenges that come from the excitement of wanting more feel worth it. It gives life to the everyday. It makes this time on earth worth it, at least in the eyes of some.

Some would rather pursue their dreams because that pursuit alone gives them meaning to live. Even if those dreams are never achieved, they are moving in the direction of something more. It’s like feeding the horses that are bulling the buggy. It fuels them more than anything else ever could.

Stability is nice, it’s comforting and peaceful. That’s the ultimate goal after those dreams are achieved but it’s very unlikely the truth of it all. They’ll likely be forever chasing something more because once they have all they ever wanted, it’s still might not be enough.

Although, that’s very unlikely. The pursuit of perfection, mastery and excellence ultimately is the goal. It’s the refining of the stone, it’s the polishing of the steel and the efficiency of a process that means something.

Not just to walk through life but to run through it with purpose. With passion and appreciation of one’s own abilities to achieve whatever it was they set their mind to.

It’s that mixture of emotion and logic. Where as the only way they are able to tap into that emotion is by chasing a dream bigger than their own reality.