Never lose hope of being better than you are. Never. This is harder than it sounds.
The world is full of broken dreamers. People who have tried and failed, for whatever reason: money, will, circumstance, faith. The cause of their loss is not germane to their story, although they may spend inordinate amounts of time trying to explain it. Affixing blame becomes a priority for some folks, after the loss. Listen and move on. Don’t linger. This is important. Your dream is not theirs — although both might look, sound, and smell very much alike. But your dream is yours — and you are you.
Broken dreams happen to everyone. There is not a soul among us who has received everything they ever wanted in this life. Not one. There are, instead, people who choose to take the lessons of the broken dream and move on. Use that pain to make the next dream a reality. They sit on those stories no longer than the cat on the hot stove. Lesson learned. Time to do something else.
If you would better yourself, then do the same. Learn to quickly identify the broken dreamers in your life and limit their contact with you. Enough to learn, not enough to permanently scar.
You have bigger dreams. You have the heart to achieve them. You will be better than you are. Go make it happen.
(Image courtesy of Nicole Bedard Photography.)
