You will never have the courage to live the future if you don’t allow yourself to dream
When I think about the future I have this wild image of life in my head. People talk about buying a house, starting a family and finding a good job, but it occurred to me I never dreamt of any of these things. I never really imagined myself living somewhere for the rest of my life. I don’t even know if I could. When I dream about the future I simply get this untameable urge for freedom, for nature, for wilderness and for beauty. Sadly when I start thinking about these things I realise that society currently forms a cage for people and makes them do the same, dress the same, walk the same, study the same and dream the same. All measures are taken to ensure that people are the same, but let’s face it: they are not!
People have different urges, different ideas, different weaknesses and different dreams. It should be about embracing these differences, because exactly these create richness and beauty in the world. We shouldn’t be the same, we cannot be the same, but we should love the differences between people and support each other. We can keep on denying the truth, we can keep on hiding, but we cannot avoid it. One day or another we need to face reality and embrace the richness and differences around us.
Listen, talk, be open-minded, look around, help and have respect. Maybe you end up learning something you never expected. And oh damn, I am ready to learn, learn from people, learn from nature and learn from the world. Learn through failure, learn by hitting boundaries and learn from being down and finding a way back up. Maybe learn from just having time, taking time to think, listen, feel and observe. Because discovering the world, discovering other people is not possible without discovering yourself.
Possibly that is the hardest part. Maybe you don’t like what you find. If I am honest, I don’t like everything I already discovered about myself. Maybe I can even say that I am scared to further discover who I am together with people who don’t even realise what they do for me, how they change me.
Anyhow, it is a long road, a beautiful road. A road heading to an unknown future, but I promise you, even though I don’t know where I am heading, it will not be a boring one.
