You must think about money. What matters now is what is happening right now. Are you making a decent living? What will make me want to listen to you? What makes you think you can achieve your dreams?
These are questions I’ve been asked in regards to achieving my dreams. People say I’m making a big mistake, trying to make a sustainable income from my blog, but I tell them that there is nothing else to live for. I cannot exist in a world where my life lays in the hands of someone else.
I want to be responsible for myself.
Living a life deferred
How many times will you let your dreams be constantly pushed to the back of your mind? High school is almost over and then my life changes forever. College is almost over and then my life changes forever. I’ll soon have a kid and my life will change forever.
I will retire and my life will change forever.
In retrospect, does our life really change? We are constantly working until our lifeblood drains out of us. Why should we spend the most pleasurable years of our lives working for a paycheck?
Even this post itself is being written for a wage.
Why? Why must the lives we dream for ourselves be constantly deferred?
Mostly because we believe that what’s always worked will work for us
We think that we must travel the conventional route — in order to keep ourselves stable. To align ourselves with people in the same boat as us. Those people that say, “You’re either with us together, or you’re against us, alone and maybe on the brink of death.”
When I look closer at the people following the conventional path, I see them giving it all they’ve got in classes that they either don’t like or really like; this is fine with me. But the kicker is that they’re just doing what they’ve been told is conventionally profitable.
They simply want jobs that will feed them. I have no doubt they will get it, but their life will still exist in their boss’s hands.
They don’t know the future, but they’re on a path that they believe is right.
In the same vein, I am going on an unconventional path that I believe is right as well.
Who will win? Who’s will is destined to become reality? Maybe both of our destinies.
It’s entirely possible that if you put your best effort in trying to achieve the conventional life, you will achieve it. Similarly, I think that it’s also possible that you can put your best effort in trying to achieve the unconventional life and you will achieve.
Get it?
Unconventional and conventional lives are both difficult to attain. But in the end, it all depends on which life you choose for yourself. It’s entirely possible for different people to attain different realities.
Just don’t be upside when the conventional life turns out exactly how you envisioned it to be.
John Anyasor is a blogger at HiLife2B. There he gives advice on personal development, inspiration, and motivation. A second year undergrad, he seeks to one day break the cycle of entering the dreaded 9-5 to achieve the life he wants, while inspiring others to join his movement.
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Website: http://hilife2b.com/blog
