✨ Look back on your life.
Count all of the fantasies that never came to be – all of the crushes that never turned into relationships 💔, the interviews that never became offers 💼, and the colleges that never sent you acceptance letters 🎓.
Count all of the paths you once wished you had walked down but were eventually happy you were blocked from doing so. Look back on your most memorable journeys.
🌅 What are some of the paths you were forced to explore that ended up giving you unimaginable blessings?
🎁 What are some of the most incredible surprises life has given you?
🌍 What are some of the experiences you can’t imagine your life without?
🤝 Who did you meet?
💫 What kinds of wonderful gifts did those people bring into your life?
Did you ever fantasize about those things in exactly the same way in which they happened?
Nope 🙂.
The greatest blessings are never predictable. You never see them coming.
Isn’t it funny? 😂 We hurt when our fantasies die, yet we forget that reality has always surpassed them in quality.
When it comes down to it, we react to life the way we react to movies 🎬: we love to keep guessing, but we hate when we guess correctly. We love to predict the ending, but we hate to be told what the ending will be.
💭 Dreams are the essence of what you’re searching for; fantasies are stories about a process in which you easily and effortlessly achieve your dreams.
If a fantasy of yours has recently died, I want you to remember this phrase:
"The fantasy is gone, but the dream will never die."
Fantasies fill a very important role in our lives. They are the only way to keep ourselves motivated. They are the only way to make ourselves act in the pursuit of our dreams. If we knew how hard it really is to get to where we want to go (and how much work it will take us to get there), we would probably never move from where we are.
🥕 Fantasies are carrots that we tie to sticks and place on our own heads. They keep us marching towards an unknown destination. They take us to wherever it is we need to go.
✨ The fantasy is gone, but the dream will never die.
The process will change, but your dream will be within reach so long as you’re willing to fight for it.
Circumstances can kill your fantasies, but only you can kill your dreams.
🌠 The fantasy is gone, but the dream will never die.
Maybe you’re not as upset as you think you are. Maybe you’re happy that you were wrong. Maybe you knew it was never going to happen that quickly. Whether consciously or subconsciously, you have always understood that fantasies are, by their very nature, unrealistic. You’ve always known this, yet you always give yourself permission to fall under their spell.
🧠 Why? Why do you convince yourself that fantasies are possible when you know that they’re not? Why do you chase your dreams thinking that they will easily fall out of the sky and right into your hands within days or months?
Because you NEED to stay motivated. Because you NEED to believe in magic ✨. Because you understand that your journey is much more important than your intended destination.
💫 YOUR SOUL KNOWS that what it truly craves is the evolution it will go through in the pursuit of your dream (not the achievement of the dream itself).
🌌 YOU KNOW that this "self-deception" is the key to living this epic story that you wrote for yourself.
🌍 THE UNIVERSE KNOWS how to motivate you to live that story when it plants those fantasies somewhere in your brain.
It is when you fool yourself into thinking that all you need is a tiny effort that you spring into action hoping for fortune to do the rest.
When fortune inevitably fails you, you get down on yourself, but you keep going. You don't give up. You build a new fantasy, stand up, and march on forward.
That is how this entire thing we call "life" works by design.
🌠 The fantasy is gone, but the dream will never die.
You will never experience your fantasies. No matter how many things you envision actually come into fruition, they will not happen how you expected them to, and they will never be what you wanted them to be. The journey will be more challenging and more fruitful. The destination will be sweeter than anything you could feel or imagine beforehand.
It will surprise you beyond your wildest expectations.
It will allow you to experience the deepest joys of living ❤️.
You can't know how it will come about because it would lessen the impact. You're not supposed to be able to predict it because it would defeat the whole purpose.
🌈 You want life to deliver your dreams in a way that you could never have anticipated, and never thought would be possible.
You want to find something that is better than any fantasy you’ve ever had.
You don’t want things to happen the way you hope they will. You want to be surprised.
🚶♂️ March on forward. Build a new fantasy.
🥕 Find another carrot, tie it to that stick, and keep going.
💪 Success is inevitable. Your luck is bound to change. Be patient, be strong, and dream on.
✨ The fantasy is gone, but the dream will never die.