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The Responsibilities and Shoulds of The Adult World Slowly Suffocate The Dreams of Youth
The responsibilities and shoulds of the adult world slowly suffocate the dreams of youth.
Dreams that lit you up from the inside out, and made you feel alive, are now merely dilapidated ruins hinting at their past glory.
You’ve reached a point in your life where you’re feeling a gravitational pull towards something. You’re experiencing a deep, intrinsic calling to meaning.
To seek purpose, fulfillment, and joy. Something beyond the life you’re living.
What you want, but your adult eyes cannot see, is to connect with those dreams, to connect to a time where all things were possible, and your imagination wasn’t superfluous; it was magical.
You long to resuscitate those dreams and those feelings, to breath life and light into them, to restore them to their glory.
But you don’t know how.
And even worse, you’re too afraid to try.
You’ve worked so hard, you’ve accomplished so much, how could you give up everything you’ve fought so hard to build?
All to connect with childhood dreams and desires?
Dreams and desires that your parents and society told you were silly? That they’d…