your dream is . . . You’re just afraid to admit it.”
My heart sank. As soon as he spoke those words, one
word popped into my mind: writer.
Now I was no longer afraid of failing. I was afraid of not
trying.
What if you don’t know what you’re supposed to do? What
if you have no idea what your passion is? These are the
questions we ask when trying to figure out what we should
do with our lives. And they are good questions—I’ve asked
them myself—but they are not the right questions. When we
say we don’t know what to do, what we’re really doing is
asking something deeper. What we want to know is this:
“Can you promise me I won’t fail?”
And the answer is no. Of course not. Nobody can
promise that.
Most people waste the best years of their life waiting for
an adventure to come to them instead of going out and
finding one. They succumb to the status quo and dream of
life being different someday. Plagued with indecision, they
wait, unsure of the right path to follow. And as they wait,
they miss an opportunity to live. The only smart choice is to
move, to not hold out for a better time and choose a
direction now. Yes, you could fail, but we all know what
happens when you don’t try—nothing. Certainly there will
be bumps in the road, even wrong turns, but at least you will