When I was 10, I wanted to be an astronaut and then when I found out it was a long way and there was a lot to study for, I changed my dream to become a person who does public service such as police or the army and when I was 18 I wanted to be a business man making billions of dollars.
I bet you have done the same too, studies found that only a 5% of population becomes what they want to become when there were in primary school – lucky them, but for the rest of us it is common to change your destination when you understand more about the journey.
Some of us realize it at earlier stage but for some of us who has been too busy chasing for the pieces of puzzle of our life, it is later at our life that we understand that life is always changing as change is always constant and always exist no matter how much we try to keep things as it is, so instead of being afraid we have to grab every new and different experience with all the gusto we can muster.
Only when you understand that not everything is in our control we understand how to embrace life. We fear so much when we lose control and that leads us to even worst scenarios . We try so hard to bend life to accommodate us but often we forget that at times we don’t even have control on ourselves and our emotions. Greed, sadness, happiness and all the feeling a human got to feel happens naturally and trying to control all of them take years of practice.
Lately I’ve read somewhere which quote – life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it and it started to make a lot of sense. Where we started from was not our choice and where we’ll end up is not our choice too, the choices comes only when we are leaving our life. Whatever we have chose led us to where we are today and whatever choices we make today will led us to where we will be standing tomorrow.
Its the ones who could react to change fast enough are the ones who have survived this harsh life. I know that it is so careless to just let things happen to us and try to change ourselves to the situation but if you apply the logic for a long enough time maybe you’ll understand the cycle and magic of life.
Dreams and goals are for us to reach and often everyone have their own way to bring their dreams alive but its when things start changing we get lost in the journey, some strong ones keep them focused but most people change their goals every ones in a while. When things get harder or when their is change in plans often we get drifted away from our dreams but that is the challenge is it not? It is hard to stay focused, but if its easy everybody would do it right?
Remember life is different for each one of us and what it has stored for us would be different than what it has stored to them, changes are undeniable and life is a mystery. Always and always be ready to grab every opportunity which comes your way and always embrace the change because change is scary at the beginning but often beautiful at the end.