It just goes to show you that you can be the master of your own destiny. I dreamt about moving to Europe for years, ever since I first visited in 2004, but I always dismissed it without seriously considering it. I assumed automatically that it would be too hard, too many road blocks, too expensive.. In short, too impossible.
And then over the summer, I thought I'd finally have my chance to start living my dream. But as you know from previous posts, that plan didn't work. The problem? I had to depend on another person to realize the dream, to make it into a reality. Your happiness should never be someone else's responsibility. It's up to you to make things happen. And the very moment I took things into my own hands and started to set the pieces in motion by myself, things started changing.
For everyone who has ever had a dream but who has been afraid of chasing it -- STOP. Stop right now. Take one step today towards achieving that special hidden desire you've always harbored and cherished, but haven't acted on. What is the worst that can happen? That you fail? So what! At least you tried and made some good memories, and probably a great story or two to tell. I'll take a lifetime of failures and lessons learned over a lifetime of regrets and missed opportunities.
What is the lesser evil for you: to have tried and failed, or to never have tried at all?
For me, it's the latter. And I'm never looking back or letting my fear get in the way ever again. What is stopping you?
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