What Are You Going For?

I have noticed that often as humans we tend to do what other people think we should do instead of what our heart tells us to do.

Chalk it up to fear, guilt or just having no balls, but we often buckle to what is socially "correct".

I think this is something I do very often, and I have decided actually scares the shit out of me.

I try to catch myself, but before I know it, I am in a situation I never wanted to be in just because people said it was the "right thing to do".

Why do we feel so obligated to do what society considers correct?

And no, I do not mean this as in you should go off the wall and start losing your shit in weird ways to be different.

I mean this in the most basic of ways. The ways we all experience every day.

Like when you are out to eat telling yourself you're going to stay on your diet but then everyone else orders and to fit in you get a hamburger, fries, and a shake to top it off.

Why do we self-destruct our true desires to please others?

We build the life of other people’s dreams and then sit there and think about how our own dreams are impossible to achieve.

How insane is that?

I say this all the time and I know I am just as bad... but, we are so distracted.

So distracted by what we should have, what we don't have, and what everyone else has, that we are wasting time building our dreams.

Whenever I notice myself doing this... I like to dream.

I think we do things like this because we fear truly pursuing our own dreams.

We are scared because what if we pursue our dreams and fail?

So why not pursue what someone told you is happiness and should be enough instead?

Sounds much easier right?

Turns out, I haven't met one person yet, besides myself, that knows exactly what makes me the happiest.

It’s a weird thing to try to remember, but no one knows you better than you.

So, stop running away from yourself, start keeping promises to yourself, and start living in your dreams, not in other peoples.

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