Success Begins with a Dream

Good morning, day, and evening folks, on this one I intend to conduct an inductive approach having this discourse sucking you in:

Even I, sometimes, have my days, days to make me feel lost in time, especially when I look at fellow people, their accomplishments, their lives. And sometimes I wonder what it would have been like having a normal life – like everyone else. But whenever I wonder, there is one thing that never changes: I always come to the same conclusion – these lives ain’t my life, these accomplishments are not my accomplishments. And as here I stand, why would I desire other people’s accomplishments? I do not look forward to have accomplishments of others, to living lives of others, because there is one mere and genuine truth about me, and yes, I am going to share it with you all: I am me, I got my own life to live, my own accomplishments. And if I do not have all the accomplishments to present as my fellow people do, there is definitely one thing I have they lack, one thing I still have they already gave up on, something that is so powerful that it can make the incredible happen, something that can change the world, that can change lives, steer them, something that is always understated, and not least something that I consider the one and only foundation of success: dreams.

Do you (still) have your dreams? Do you still hold fast to your dreams like Langston Hughes told us all to a long time ago? Do you still jam on that old guitar of yours believing in becoming the big rockstar you always wanted to be? Do you still scribble notes on the big novel you intend to write?

The only words of wisdom regarding that are the ones by former athlete Gail Devers: "Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

I talked to a woman yesterday and she told me about her dream. I asked her, why she was not 100% sure about chasing it in order to make it become reality. She said she did not know really. I told her there were three things to keep her from making these dreams come true: other people being in the way, oneself being in the way, and the lack of true will. Making dreams come true is dedicated to those who are willing to. If you buried your dreams already, dig deep and rediscover them. What was it, that gave us the car as a medium of transportation? What made the human being being able to fly? I tell you: a dream! What has put a man on the moon? A dream – and the everlasting faith and belief in making it happen.

If you are the dreaming kind of person, if you got that dreamer’s disease, let me tell you that you still got a little flame inside that can do tremendous things. Chase your dreams, do not give up on your dreams. Does it matter that your fellow people consider you obsolete, or your episteme surreal? Did it matter to Neil Alden Armstrong, what his fellow people, his friends said when he placed his footprint in the moon's dust? Did it matter to Christopher Columbus what others said when he sailed westwards (do not feel offended by this whiff of Eurocentrism) in the late fifteenth century? It were dreams that changed this world, that gave opportunities, that made things happen. The biggest things, the biggest accomplishments all started with a little spark of hope, with a little dream. It is merely up to us and our limited imagination wether we make that little thought, that little spark of hope, that little surreal dream develope into something of tremendous relevance, into something big...or if we do not hold fast to it and let life and rush extinguish our little flame inside. If you are a dreamer, you will not need to compare yourself to your fellow people and their accomplishments, because if you are a "true" dreamer, you know you are capable of much more than your fellows could ever achieve. Let that little dream develope, let it blossom, and create something big, make things happen, leave your marks, change this world...and people who tell you it’s not going anywhere? Ignore them, because they don’t know about heart and dedication – and furthermore they obviously never heard about this:

If you can dream it you can do it!