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Are You Who You Desire to Be?
What does it take to live a life you truly desire to have?
Are you who you desire to be? If not, why not?
This is a simple question, certainly, but the answer is likely complicated.
As children, we all have dreams and aspirations. You wanted to be an astronaut, or a firefighter, or a doctor, or an explorer seeking new lands and opportunities. The things you wanted to do as a child may have been realistic, or very out there and fantastic.
Then you get slapped in the face by “reality.” During your time in school, while you were learning essential things that would help you as an adult, you also learned a lot of things that were “true” — except that they actually are not.
For example: Being an artist/writer/singer and the like is a struggle; you cannot possibly make money as an explorer; a person needs a college education to get a decent job; you come from the wrong background to be ‘X’; if you dream too big you will only crash harder when reality hits you. All of these and similar get tossed out there, often by well-meaning people who believe they are looking out for your best interests.
Our society loves labels. Many of these labels are complete garbage, and mostly cause artificial divisions to be created. There is something of an expectation in our culture for how…
