THE DAILY POST
Monday, March 27, 2015
Written by Max Lister
Many would encourage you to get out of your comfort zone and experience the world. They would tell you things like ‘You can reach whatever dreams you have if you only work hard enough’ or ‘You have to be the change you want to see in the world.’ Sure, they’ll give you the pretty words and persuasive phrases that probably come from some hyped up self-help book, but really they are offering you a challenge that is impossible to accomplish.
When someone says that you can reach your dreams, they are really saying that they don’t believe you can do it but they’ll tell you something that won’t hurt your feelings anyway. And the problem lies with the society that we live in.
Your society, our society, does not believe in dreams. They do not believe in fanciful notions and creativity and passions and wishes. It does not stop for sick days or family emergencies. It does not care if you are up to par or not. You keep up or give up.
This society does not care who it hurts to progress itself.
You were all born of this society. You were molded by it, raised by it, taught by it, and supported by it. But only so far as it benefitted the society. You are only there so long as you are convenient.
The ordinary people are rejected, replaced. You, an ordinary person, will be thrown to the side and stomped on until you learn to be something the society calls ‘gifted’ or ‘skilled.’ Without these magical terms labeled upon your name and resume, you will be ordinary. And ordinary is not good.
Ordinary makes you boring, it makes you vulnerable, weak, second-best.
That is why they say you must have dreams and goals. But they cannot be ordinary dreams and goals because that would make you ordinary. Go to college, get a degree, have a family, cure cancer, get a 4.0 GPA, have college paid off before you get there through scholarships, get a job with a large salary, get promoted, become rich, become famous, write a story, publish a book...These things are good goals but in this society they are not good enough. You cannot just have one of them. It is all or nothing.
So how can you achieve these goals and dreams that are so demanded of you when the very society that dictates that requirement doesn’t allow you to do it your own way? How can you be your own person when you have to be the one that people say you must be? Simple: you can’t. Dreams were only meant to push you forward and fade away as reality hits in.
How can you know what living feels like when all you’ve done is exist?
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