Kids: Dare to dream or stick to your strengths?

This should pretty much sum everything up:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRmKzxhMzwo&feature=related


Hotwater

 

Every DJ wants to be a musician / is a failed musician. Promoting records or actually making those records is a big difference. It is the difference between a dream and cold reality.

 

Whose to say the kid wouldnt have ended up bagging groceries regardless of what he dreamt.

Somebody has to get the shit end of the stick.

 

Many of them have full ride scholorships to prominent schools. That's why. The kid that gets his teaching degree prior to entering the NFL draft is much better prepared for failure than the kid who skips college to go to the NBA(Which needs to be stopped, IMO)

 

So why do you encourage people to dream big when your opinion is that anything short of achieving your dream is miserable failure? Not everybody can achieve their dream or we wouldnt' have DJ's apparently.

 

yeah but if no one failed their dreams only to fall into the lower class lives, the world would not work.

 

the world is already uneven...never has been even.

many roads lead to Rome

 

You didn't read well between the lines, dear Mak.

 

Maybe some of those people should've been taught to stick to their strengths then? The kid working at McD's who thinks he's going to make the NBA is going to flip burgers forever. The kid who realizes that's pretty much what he's good for stays and works hard. Eventually makes District Manager. <--I've known that to happen for a few people.

 

Are you saying DJ's failed to dream big enough?

 

Everyday a dream is crushed, and on that day McD's will likely be hiring.

 

both, why does it have to be one or the other? i want to teach my kids that life is about balance and happiness, and not striving to achieve something impossible. unless it's what they want to do. my plan is to let them decide what they want to do (within reason of course) and support whatever that is.

 

well said azucena.

 

Nah, even I admit that without the proper mindset many dreams seem impossible. A dream is in your mind, although there has to be a certain realism to it. Like a dwarf will not have a big chance of becoming a professional basketballer and a woman will never become president of the United States.

I never said that hard, cold realism is bad. The only 'bad' thing is giving up dreaming.

Being a DJ is not that bad, now is it?

 

screw "making it big" in anything. dare to dream YOUR OWN DREAMS, think your OWN thoughts, and believe YOUR OWN beliefs. "making it big" is just a nongratifying, pretentious, whole lot of caca por nada.

set an example, the best and closest that you can, of living a kind of life, that if more people did, we would all be living in a world, that would be safer, free-er, more peaceful and more gratifying, for everybody.

unless you'd really rather live in a world, in which you, none of us, will likely live long, because of its own self destructiveness.

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Best post of this thread. You made it big, Max!

 

Didn't say it had to be one or the other. Just asked your take it on it.

 

you know, i was superstitious. any time i wanted something, it'd be snatched away for me and i'd be mocked for having wanted anything so lame in the first place. so i told my dad i wanted to be president or a psychiatrist....then snuck into a family. BWAHAHAHAHAHHA. my dad is still furious. fuck 'im, though. all i ever wanted was a home where people don't come in screaming and hating each other ever day.

 

It's a novel thought to some. . .

 

totally alien to too many people.