My Cage "Classic" 08/27/2008
Added 2022-02-23 12:30:59 +0000 UTCSo, do you think it's better to follow your dreams, and not achieve them, or better to be able to hold onto the "what if" factor to get yourself through the day to day? Is there a dream you wished you'd followed and haven't? Is there a dream you've follow and wished you didn't?
Originally run Aug 27th 2008.
-Ed
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Comments
Thanks for your response. Sorry you had to go through all that you did. -Ed
My Cage
2022-03-02 12:51:45 +0000 UTCIt's better to hold onto them. My health issues and invisible disability, the pandemic, a traumatic event, and an unexpected personal loss together brought me to face the near certainty of the complete loss of any vocational fulfillment. Every one of those dreams has died. It didn't matter that I tried incredibly hard, was flexible and creative, stuck to my principles and worked hard to help and be kind to other people. None of it mattered. I had a two month breakdown and wanted to die. I'm still barely holding on and staring at the smoking wreckage of what I wanted for my life, what I thought was achievable, my hopes. This isn't a direct answer to the question. But what I'd argue is that you have a window where achieving a dream is possible, but if you don't succeed, eventually that window closes. When you reckon with that, realizing that you never really gave it a shot is going to feel a lot worse. The consolation I do have is that it isn't my fault that this happened to me. I don't know how I'd live with myself if I had to face that I'd created this outcome. Reckoning with the death of one's dreams is a torment that changes how you view the world. But I'd say it loosely correlates with "Better to have loved and lost". I'm sorry you are going through this. Thanks for sharing it with us.
FilloryCitrus
2022-02-25 22:32:15 +0000 UTCGrowing up in the 60s I dreamed of being an astronaut. Then I saw the tin cans those lunatics went up in, close up. I stuck with flying the stuff from the ground and it worked out pretty well.
Yer pal Mikey
2022-02-23 21:38:55 +0000 UTC
