Dreamers Don't Fit
Someone asked when it would prove unviably unrealistic or outright selfish to pursue my dreams. It's a fallacious question. My dreams are my contribution. If I let them go and choose a path where I fit in and travel with the pack, then I fail both myself and the world. In that scenario, the one thing that distinguishes me would be the one thing that I didn't contribute to the mix. I may as well not be in the mix.
Of course, one man's dreams don't make sense to another. If I see valuable something that you don't, how do I serve you by keeping the information to myself? Yes, it can be upsetting when someone travels against the flow. It can feel like an unspoken judgment of sorts.
But it is, in fact, a gift. I will not be deterred from giving my gift.
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But how do you reconcile that against the cost to others of pursuing your dreams? I think that every thing that I choose to pursue has a cost on those around me. I struggle for a metric that will help me compare the costs and benefits that those people endure and receive. AND if the benefits are stacked in favor of me, versus those that pay the costs, then perhaps I am being selfish.
Interesting assumption that dreams result in benefit to the dreamer. Most of the bold dreamers in history pursued their dreams at enormous cost to themselves, if not their very lives. It's dangerous business, this dreaming.
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