Memory From The Future
Memory From The Future
Sometimes, there are some people saying "I can't do this because I've never done that" and they also say "I really want to be someone like him/her" or "I wish I was a millionaire and driving around with Porche" or "She is just talented, very different from me."
They are all coming from the past.
If you want to be the person who you dream of, it never comes from the past because, if our past is promising and drawing us to be our dream, we'd have already realized our dream.
"Well, I'm just on the way, I need to make more efforts."
Yeah you must be right, you need more time, then you'll be successful.
But wait a minute, if you continue your current efforts, will you be certainly successful? Possibly, but do not underestimate friends and others around you, they are also making lots of lots of efforts everyday.
So obviously making efforts are not enough, or completely unnecessary. It doesn't mean we don't have to make any efforts or pay any money, but at least we need to think differently.
If you know the term "comfort zone", you also might know how important it is to be successful. As people are in the comfort zone, they are less stressed and feel home because things around them are all you've already got used to, see, eat, talk and think. If we let our instinct go without any control, human beings are led to the zone and squander our precious time, because there is very little progression or growth in the comfort zone. What we dream of is always distant from where we are at present. If you do not have a dream and just wish peaceful life going on, do not read this and go back to your daily job and keep making efforts.
To realize our dream, in other words, to reach very far and alien place from the present, we need to focus on where we are going to be, not where we used to be. It's very simple. If you want to stay the same place, you do not need to actively think anything. But if you want to travel somewhere alien to you, you need to check how you can go, what you need, when you should all necessary action, who I should consult and so on. Thinking like this is very easy and simple, however, what actually blocks our way?
The distraction is called the past or experience. They can sometimes be very friendly, but if you go too far, they might tell you that "what makes you think you can do that?" "You are neither talented nor rich, it's ridiculous to try that" "I've never heard of that sort of story" so on and on.
Let's go back to the metaphor of travelling. People criticizing and asking ridiculously are just talking about places where they've never been. Even simple experience like reading a book, how much can you express of a book you read by words? No matter how long hours you talk with your mates, it'd be eventually far less or somehow exaggerated, changed summary, and most importantly, your mates could misunderstand that they already knew about the whole contents of book, by hearing your beautiful story.
You might not do this by explaining book, but the main idea is how ridiculous it is to overconfidently misunderstand that we already know where we've never been. Even if you have been there, you'd still have lots of things remaining mysterious.
Therefore, one big thing to make our dream come true is to keep questioning and keep exploring this mystic world.
