Sunday, March 18, 2012

Sunday's bonus prompt: #Scintilla Your Impossible Dream...


Sunday's bonus prompt: What is one massively impossible dream you've always had?

I always wanted to be a white bangle tiger. They are beautiful, graceful and powerful. They are rare and highly valuable. But being a vegetarian and not really one to hunt and kill other things, I knew it was a massively impossible dream for me.

Aside from defying nature, I don’t think there are impossible dreams, only impossible beliefs. Think about it, how many of us dreamed of becoming dancers, singers, writers, or athletes? When we were children too small to reach the knobs on the sink; we dreamed of becoming something amazing, something valuable and beautiful. We had it all planned out right?

Then what happened….

We started to listen to the naysayers, and realists. We started to believe their words carried power over our dreams and so we stopped thinking them, we stopped dreaming of who we could become and started acting like what we thought everyone else wanted us to be. We became too embarrassed to say out loud what our dreams were, because people would judge us, tell us it was impossible. We began to let doubt and fear seep into our lives.

Sure some people would do it to protect our feelings; others said it because they’ve been conditioned to believe in limited thinking. But somewhere in the scheme of our lives, we began to believe in the fear of failure and the thought of impossibility and right there is where our impossible dreams were born. Right there is where we let Race Consciousness dictate our lives to us.

Now how do we change the limited belief that we’ve allowed to take root in our belief system? We must begin to change our minds about them.

I’m not saying at 40+ years old I can go out and become a professional dancer, nor do I want to. But as adults we have dreams. We have goals we want to obtain, beliefs we want to change, limited thinking we could do without. If we can begin to see the greatness in the world instead of the despair around us our lives would change.

Let go of the fear of judgment and failure and begin to embrace the immeasurable possibilities within you. So what if the first time you don’t get it right, who cares…What’s gonna happen? So you fall down, skin a couple knees. Get back up and do it again. Change your approach, work from the deep core belief that anything is possible. 

Find those people around you who want to see you succeed and be grateful for them. Stand in the light of your own discovery and let the dreams flood over you. Then and only then will you really see what your true dreams are.

Thanks for checking out my post, and I’ll write you tomorrow~

1 comment:

  1. I think we all need to read this. All of with dreams that we think are out of our reach. All of us who listen to our doubts more than our optimism. Thank you for this.

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