If I didn't pursue my dreams I would be in the gutter today, or worse, dead. The living dead.
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Age old confucian wisdom:
“What is meant by being beneficent without great expenditure?”
The Master replied, “When the person in authority makes more beneficial to the people the things from which they naturally derive benefit;—is not this being beneficent without great expenditure? When he chooses the labours which are proper, and makes them labour on them, who will repine? When his desires are set on benevolent government, and he realizes it, who will accuse him of covetousness?"
—Tsze-chang
A decade ago i was in trouble with no home and no work after moving back to my own country. A friend gave me advice which works for him, to work at a place recommended me to his boss to do a kind of work not suited for me, not my skills, very out of place. I kindly rejected the offer and doubled down on finding a job which aligned with my dreams and talents. It made all the difference. That was an extremely important crossroads in my life.
And that something for you is different and unique from somebody else. And you dont have to live your dream. You just need a plan and a direction. Thats the important part. That you are going the right direction of your values.