Crushing Dreams and other things adults are good at

I was overhearing a conversation while on break at work the other day. It was about someone’s stepdaughter being enrolled in a school for visual and performing arts, majoring in dance, by her mother. The stepmother, who was having the conversation with a co-worker, declared that she does not approve of that decision. As she so disdainfully questioned: “What is she going to do with a degree in dance?”

It wasn’t my conversation to partake. Nevertheless, it left me feeling..worn thin.

They way I look at this young lady, attempting to follow her passion, and the support of her mother who is apparently unsupported by other people in her life, is the only way one should live their life.

Life is either too short for you to not take your chances at what you really love. Missing out on opportunities and then your time is up already.

Or life is too long to not follow what your heart is calling you to do. Becoming sidetracked by the mundane. Being nudged and manipulated into an assimilated lifestyle of previous generations that is devoid of the joy for life and one’s gifts. Living out your entire life in the drudgery of what someone else’s idea of success is. Those same people that misdirect you, more so in your youth, are the ones who they themselves had to stifle these beautiful reasons for being alive. Most likely just to make a living.

Slight difference.