Dear Kiddos,
Okay, the title may be a little depressing. But this is a
reality that you will be faced with as you grow up. Did you want to be
firefighter? A physicist? A financial advisor? A stylist? Professional athlete?
Teacher? Etc.
If you're anything like me you wanted to be a lot of things.
Curiosity didn't just kill the cat. It kills the part of your soul that wants
to live a lot of different lives and experience everything. I am faced to
acknowledge that while I may be able to live a couple of dreams - you have to
let go of many of them.
This has been depressing me lately as I fight through my
quarter-life crisis. I haven't mastered this yet (obviously) but I think the
trick is to be more judicious with what you choose to hold onto and what you
allow to die.
Letting go of dreams that you don't really believe in or that
cannot happen will enrich the rest of your life. You won't be forced to live
with the fear or guilt about not making those things a reality. And as they
fade into the ether of existence you will be able to more fully embrace the
life you have.
On a side note - take big risks on your passions and dreams
before you have anything. The more you have to lose, the less likely you will
be able to let go of fear and chase down your dreams. And that is precisely
what it will feel like. You'll have to bareknuckle brawl a freaking grizzly
bear and wrestle an alligator in to submission in a battle royale to the death.
That's what it costs to taste your dreams. But once you find the woman of your
dreams, have a couple mortgages, a great job with people you enjoy working
with, thinking about bringing you nerds into the world ... It becomes almost
impossible to take big risks.
The point of this isn't to make you feel like you can't do the
things you want to do but to make sure that you are living a life of intent.
Because like your grandfather always says "you have time for anything,
just not time for everything".
So figure out what you want out of this life as best you can (if
you don't have the full picture, that's okay! I still don't!) and then chase it
down and ride the unicorn into the sunset. And then as you sunsets behind your
unicorn steed let the other dreams/ambitions/desires die with dignity. Thank
them for their influence on your life and then let them go.
Cheers to the death of dreams!
Love always,
Dad
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