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Imagine that. The entire world you have imagined is just a tiny piece of a bigger world and you spend your whole life aiming as high as the lid of the jar.
Most of the things I fail at are the things I don't even try. I say "Oh it would be so nice to be able to fly a plane, I can't do it, but it would be fun if I could." And yet here I am, not even trying.
This is not to be confused with things that I don't aim for myself. But how much do I dismiss right off the bat because I assume that I cannot do it, or that it would be too hard?
How much do you dismiss?
I pondered a lot this week what to be grateful for. The week started out shitty with no inspiration coming to me, even when I held up a candle to look. It ended fantastically and I was hit with so much I could put here but nothing that spoke to me more than this idea that we sometimes limit ourselves and write off dreams without even trying.
This is something I want to change.
I've had a post floating in my mind for the last two days on something similar. I discovered recently a school friend of mine is off living the dream, and I'm cleaning floors a hundred times a day.
ReplyDeleteThis post has clarified so many of my thoughts. Maybe I'm the only one holding me back?
oooh true, we set our own limitations, don't we? i think out of self preservation, though. what will you try first, if there are no limits? :)sarah
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with cleaning the floors though!
ReplyDeleteThat's a part of where we limit ourselves. We're stay at home mothers, raising our flesh and blood, and yep sometimes that means cleaning their poop from their undies but there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world who would give anything to be doing what we are doing. Even if we are broke.
It's just perspective and that the world right now defines success as a monetary thing. Big fancy house with all the gadgets etc. etc. But is that how YOU define success?
If there were no limits? I would pack up my family for a couple of years and travel every inch of the world homeschooling my kids along the way but also giving them a cultural education. Oh and to be fluent in all those languages because I'd hate to live somewhere and struggle to be able to communicate.
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