The hardest thing in the world to be certain of is a magnificent dream. I do not refer to meager aspiration - the type that grows ordinary and prosaic from every fissure of life. I refer instead to the raw, unpolished lumps that are mined from the caves of improbability. We are audacious, dust-covered miners and we seek a truth that Thoreau's desperate masses have chosen to leave behind. It is a voracity that no doubt, no seemingly-overbearing circumstances could ever deny us. It is our destiny, and we seek it with conviction.
Though I am only a nineteen years old girl, I know that I will accomplish great things. And so it is towards this goal that I labour each day not simply because I want to, but because I must. A great dream, if left unaccomplished for long enough, will destroy the person who owns if. For nothing is so potent and untamed as the undiluted essence of aspiration.
And so it begins....I have created this blog for us. My words are meant for all, irrespective of age or background. The only prerequisite is that you carry the avoirdupois of a truly wondrous dream upon your back, and that you seek it tirelessly, striving through whatever twisted corridors and unlit alleys that life may throw upon you with a persistent knowledge that soon, very soon you shall reap the benefits of an honest, unique ambition.
I will share my story with you day to day, as well as the events that have brought me up to this point. I ask that you do the same. For here we tie the bond between us - and whether you strive to be conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics or an Oscar-Winning director then you can do it. Nothing can stop you but yourself. I will support and hold you accountable for achieving success, and I hope you will do the same for me. I leave you with the words of Anthony Robbins:
"You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows, and has always known, that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.”
Hear the imminence of your dream ringing in the air and own it. You hold the power to control your own destiny and so you shall. This is the moment it all begins. This is how you change the world.
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Hey, my name is Charles and I am a writer who will one day have his books read all over the world. I just wanted to say that finding this site really relieved me, because until now I have been tentative about sharing my ambition with anyone else in the world. It might seem dramatic that I don't want anyone else to know, but experience has taught me that most other humans are limited by their surroundings and THEIR OWN potential, and they fail to see the magic of what lives inside of other human beings. I know that I will be a famous author. Sometimes I struggle with the idea, because I don't know if it is all a delusion but I have been writing ever since the age of four and I know without a doubt that I have the potential to alter the face of literature on this planet. I just don't know if I will ever be given this opportunity.
Right now, I am in college and I find it very difficult to concentrate on work when writing pulls me in - my head is filled with stories and I know that if I could just let go of the necessity to do ridiculous things like Calculus and just learn about writing instead, I could be that much more of an incredible writer.
But I was wondering if you could give me some advice, or perhaps direct your next blog entry towards what I should do about the problems I am having in college, because I don't want to spend the entirety of my life doing things that other people deem important if in the end they will not help me. I really know that I will change the world. I would love to hear more about your story, and I hope we can help each other. Together, we will change the world.
What an interesting site! I just wanted to comment because I was on facebook, and saw a link here and thought I would come check it out. As a blogger I think you are filling a need that really exists. It is, as you said, extremely hard to have a dream especially when you doubt yourself and there is no one else who can help you out. I am in my forties now but years ago I had such great aspiration, and I let it slip away. I firmly believe, though, that my dreams melted away because most people's do. Otherwise, there wouldn't be room for the truly great people who will never give up.
I will definitely come back and read up on you guys. As I said before, much success with the future. Charles, I think you have a bright future ahead. Just hold on to your ambitions, and never quit until you get your dreams!
Caralyn
Okay, so I didn't want to be the first person who left a comment, out of a fear of....i dunno. That someone I know would somehow find it and call me out for "knowing" that I am capable of great things. But now that Charles and Caralyn have commented I feel a more free to express that which is on my mind, and hopefully make friends who can continue with me on the journey to change the world.
My self-description will be brief. I am basically a twenty-eight year old who lives in New York now and who will one day become an Oscar-Winning director. It is hard for me to say that this will happen "soon." How can I now how long it will take? By my age, I am pretty sure that Steven Spielberg had already directed Jaws, but then again we have to remember people like Frank McCourt who was what - in his seventies when he published his first novel and he ended up being very successful.
It is good for me to have this group because now that I put myself out there I will have to succeed. Now I have no choice. As people who strive to accomplish great things I think we have to hold ourselves and each other to a certain standard, otherwise we will inevitably fail. The hardest thing it to through ALL caution and inhibition to the wind and put 100% into something when you don't know if you are going to succeed or not, and when failure could mean the end of life as you know it.
I look forward to reading what our mystery blogger, "an aspiring youth" has to say. I feel as if her words will be a great beacon to guide me towards an awesome future, and just the inspiration I was looking for. This is the beginning of something great and I don't want to fall away from the purpose I was created to pursue. And so, like all of you I will one day change the world.
wow...you speak so much of truth and it moves me...I'm intrigued by your passion and desire. I'm a writer too and am currenlty working on my first book. It's fantasy that I hope will get published soon. If you're interested in reading some of it, you can become a fan of the page on facebook and join my blog. Here at the links:
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=94504&post=1644858&uid=2204546223#!/pages/The-Black-Crystal-Chain-of-Destiny/103109956391943?ref=ts
http://theblackcrystalnovel.webs.com/apps/blog/
Charlie - do what you gotta do, there's always something useful to learn when we do thing we see as unnecessary, and we must try to do things that we choose for ourselves and not somebody else for us, finally - follow your dream continuously, every minute, every day, until you get where you are headed. The only thing that made authors successful was writing and writing and writing even more! And for all of you - there are hundreds of articles about achieving your dreams and there is only way - ACTION! You will never realize your dreams in the physical world if you don't materialize it with pure physical action. Thinking and planning and discussing ain't action! Meeting with sponsors, talking and knocking on important people's doors is! Writing, working, applying what you already know is action! So go on and be active, be persistent, be optimistic, believe, pray and get up early!
I am 21, female and my dream is to inspire people to be happy, I want to be famous blogger, public speaker, to have my own business connected to making people happy and relieving their lives and I want to connect with people on their deepest levels - the God inside of them! Let there be joy in our lives and success in our ventures! I already have a blog which is in my native language - Bulgarian, but soon I will translate it so it can reach more people near and far, so I am one step closer to my goal, wish me luck. I love you :}
Hellohs, I'm a 13 year old girl from Singapore.
I WANT TO BE A STAR ! My idols are the KPOP groups ... there are online auditions going on and I really want to go for it. But my mum doesn't support my dreams. And she doesn't know how I secretly get up in the middle of the night to practise singing. I just mentioned to her "what if i get into second round" and she told me to stop dreaming. I was really shocked. Of all people...she thinks that it is unrealistic. But she doesn't know how serious I am about it. I admit it IS a little unrealistic. If i get in I'll have to move to korea, without my parents and stuff. But if i really want it that way, why don't she let me ? :(((
HELLLPPPPPP !
I really appreciate this blog. My name is Mike and i am a musician. One day i hope to be a professional touring musician and producer. I've taken record production classes, guitar tech classes, and have played in a few bands. However, i am jobless, i suffer from depression, and i'm a recovering drug addict (been clean since november 5th 2010.)
As of right now i'm 19 years old and i spend almost every day lying on the couch or playing video games because i can never find decent musicians to practice with, and i have a hard time staying motivated and content.
I need help to get off the couch. I need some support.
Again, thanks SOOO much. This is truly inspiring.
- Mike
mball017@yahoo.com
Hi, im Kaylen and you can call me an idealist. Ive always been interested in things and automatically thought, "I could do that". As if i was capable of anything in this big great word & im glad i do that. The only problem is after a few days i lose imtrest. Recently, ive been watching the Olympics & ive been interested in a certain sport…gymnastics. And just like me, i looked at them & said "I could do that, most definetly".So i started working out to get in shape.However, it wasnt intill i was trying to da a stretch & and tipped over the walk machine and my cousin and sister was like, "What you doin" & while i was trying to tell them they said, "Sit down, she trying to do that olympic stuff". So like me, i sat down & felt discouraged, so i listened to sum music. And at that point i was thinking i cant do this. I countinued to work out but i started to fell least interested. Like me i carry everthing dats goin on w/ me on my shoulder and i dnt tell anybody, so the only person i really trust to tell is my cousin Destiny(not the same one who discouraged me), and even w/ her i dnt tell her much. So one day i told her,"Im thinking about goin out for gymnastics". And she said,"That should be cool". Since i dnt tell people alot of stuff i was expecting more. So i thought about why i really didnt wnt 2 do it anymore. And i got to thinking about my family, has any of them ever folloed there dreams.I had a aunt who uses a scooter to get around, a sister who didnt wnt to do her profession anymore, and a mother who could have potentially been an volleyball olympian. I will say this i love my family to the dearest, but it seemed they had dreams, but never followed them. And i thought i dnt wnt to end up like dat. In the course of 3 days signs kept popping up: things on tv,signs outside, and internet, & a letter in the mail for dance classes. I know ironic. Any way i thought ok i hav to do it but how. The reason i didnt hav interest was because i wasnt doin any moves and i dnt like to work out. If i hav a dream i like to get right to it but i do hav to lose sum pounds that was in my way. I watched the Gabby Douglas story and other gymnasts's. And now i realize wat i need is supporters on my side motivating me to keep moving forward. I would like any one whose reading this and email me to be a supporter and sum advice if you hav any(missk0906@hotmail.com) . Tell me about your dreams. We all need motivation. My name is Kaylen and i plan to be an gymnastics Olympian!! :)
Hi I'm David from Australia. I have the same goal as you (particularly for SM ent) I realize by now (since you said you were 13 in 2010) that we are about the same age - I know it's hard and you can feel like giving up but, keep trying, don't give up ok ?
Well I found this from Tumblr (thanks Tumblr!), and I guess I wil give this a shot. If you feel so inclined call me Celede. In my life, I have received little to no support in my goals/dreams. On a dark spring night someone expressed interest, I cried. I am not going to go into too much details. This is dreams not pity-right? I want to sing, I want to act, I want to be kind, compassionate, I want to learn languages, heck, I want true friends and a lot of other things. For typing's sake, I will go with singing. I aspire to be a great mezzo soprano, to soar high and perch lightly on chords. Have you ever done something and something just clicks? That blissful moment, sweet bliss, where everything just seems well? That is singing for me. I can whisper seductively, belt, roar, and burble. To feel my sinuses quaking with the volume of my sound.The only problem is, ( ah betcha guys have been waiting for the if here) no support. I suffer mentorless, true friendless, and mostly alone. "Why would you waster your life on singing, Celede-? You can do so much more than that!" It beats me with unrelenting force these words and looks. I try to be happy and study my engineering. I try babbling with my shallow pathetic friends. I try to improve my bad financial situation, but it doesn't work. I am just drowning in facades and horrible BLANK looks that tell me, " Stupid, why?". I well up my emotions and release them in singing and acting. I am free. The sky space is limited, though, and a private sky is not always enough. To have people acknowledge that I am singing and doing it well would be a miracle beyond my dreams! I wish I could share this with a living person( in my life who cared). I got tired of waiting. I have been wrenching the bull by the horns trying to ascend to my dreams. To be an acclaimed singer and actor, to have true friends, to be kind and compassionate and receive in turn-! A dream that seems too far away. Trust me, though it may sound, I am not giving up yet! I am done breaking myself for people who don't care, chipping myself away. I am going for my dream. Hopelessness be damned! Thank you for reading this quite abridged version of my thought and feelings.
-Celede
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