ABOUT HOPES AND DREAMS FOR A BETTER LIFE

Have you given up on any hopes and dreams you once had?

Sadly, we all have at one time or another.

It can be a struggle to keep them alive throughout the ups and downs of our lives.

Think back to when you were 10. As a kid, perhaps you wanted to be a superhero or a superstar, a princess or a prince. Whoever it was you were going to grow up as, it would be someone spectacular.

Those were the glorious days when the only limits on what you could become were beyond the boundaries of your own imagination.

You see, you weren’t born with low expectations of what you could achieve in life.

Then, one day, you started to expect less.

Anything was no longer possible for you. Or, so you began to believe.

Expecting Less

 

It’s only natural that many of our childhood hopes and dreams wither away. After all, not everyone is destined to become an astronaut and walk on the moon!

Some people say that we simply have to lower our expectations because that’s what ‘real life’ is all about. They argue that hopes and dreams are warm, fuzzy ideas that vanish in the cold light of reality.

Of course, we’ve all experienced the pain of being let down when something we’d hoped for never comes to pass. And, very few of us have escaped the shattering effects of a broken dream. These feelings can leave us devastated.

Our hopes and dreams can, indeed, be cruelly dashed.

We prefer to protect ourselves from disappointment by not raising our hopes and not daring to dream. It saves us from being hurt.

We stop hoping for so much.

We don’t dream as often.

We expect less.

When Expectations Are Not-So Great

 

Your hopes and dreams can come true. It happens to other people all the time so, why not to you?

If you no longer expect them to become real, you give up on making them happen.

Unlike in fairy-tales, hopes and dreams don’t just magically appear out of thin air. They take planning and plenty of action. Nothing worthwhile is created without effort. Sometimes, it takes an entire life’s workload.

But – when you lower your expectations of what is possible – those things you once thought you could do now seem impossible to achieve.

So, you give up and don’t even try.

Like that 10 year old kid you once knew who dreams of becoming someone spectacular.

We all know someone who gave up on their hopes and dreams far too soon.

Don’t abandon yours without giving it your very best shot.

What hopes and dreams do you have that refuse to go away? How have you turned them into a reality, despite setbacks?

Please share your thoughts in the comments section below. I’d love to hear from you.