“We shall not cease from exploration, at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” -T.S. Eliot
I had a couple of great conversations recently with 
I find it interesting that when we are young say 4 to 6 years old, adults will ask children, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” No matter what that little child says everyone smiles and tells them to go do that. Go be the astronaut or the princess or the fireman or the poet. There is no doubt in the child and there is an endless potential seen by everyone around them.
But then there is a subtle but noticeable shift that takes place. For me, it was around the age of 12 or 13. When well-meaning adults would ask, “What do you want to do with your life?” Suddenly the answer I gave didn’t get so much praise. The answer wasn’t met with smiles but frowns and furled brows. Their doubt had replaced the endless possibilities. This is where they would try to teach “how the world works.” This is where they try to protect you from heartbreak. They begin to indoctronate you into “reality.”
Make no mistake this comes from their perception of life and their broken dreams, it has nothing to do with “reality.” If they knew how the world really worked they would never stop a child from dreaming. But these were the people we loved, and we listened like kids who didn’t know any better. What they were telling us began to sink in. Almost immediately everything we had imagined came crashing down and we had to try and put our self-esteem back together.
For me, I don’t remember the exact day, but I distinctly remember the looks on my families face when I would tell them my dreams. Instead of smiles, it would be smirking. Instead of words like “You can do anything you put your mind to” it became, “Well we hope that happens for you, but we’ll see.” It has taken me this long in my life to realize that what they were saying to me at such a young age actually had nothing to do with me at all.
What’s funny is that this doesn't just happen as kids. If you woke up one day and were struck by an inspiration you could no longer ignore to change your life and follow your heart you might hear the same type of stuff from the people around you. People you even consider friends. If you tell someone you want to be a photographer, or an artist, or a writer, or a sculptor, or a poet, or a world traveler, maybe even a journalist, you will probably hear things like “There's no money in that.” Or “That's not a viable career choice, come back to reality, come back to planet earth.”
When did we all begin to accept that we will have to do things we hate doing for money? When did everyone agree that to survive on this planet we have to sacrifice our dreams? When did we stop believing in our imagination? Maybe that's a little too dark, but you understand my point.
I truly believe that we can Be and Do and Have whatever it is we want from this life. I'm extremely grateful that even though there have been a lot of people and tons of experiences to tell me otherwise, I always believed I could do whatever I wanted to do with my life. I never truly let go of the idea that anything was possible. It may have gotten pretty buried deep beneath all the bullshit, but it never really left me.
Do you remember being a kid? Do you remember the feeling of invincibility? I can look back and still feel it even though it is very faint. The feeling that my imagination could shape the reality I saw with my eyes. The feeling that something was always with me, that I was never alone, that I could never really be hurt, and that my dreams had no choice other than to become real because they were given to me.
A child doesn’t know what doubt is, that is an adult belief structure.
In order to become invincible again, we have to bring back that feeling and stoke the flame as if it were just barely lit. We must allow ourselves to dream again, to imagine endless possibilities. Except without the doubt. We have to gently let go of those little children inside of us that were hurt by the well-meaning adults. We have to gently tell them that there is nothing to be afraid of, that those adults didn’t understand what “Reality” truly is or how to shape it.
When an idea is planted in your mind, from wherever they come from, it is a gift that has been given to you. It is a journey that you must see to the end. It is a block of clay that you must mold and bring that idea into this reality. As if the idea is the finished dream and All That Is is the block of clay in which to mold.
During all this, we must bring back that childlike sense of invincibility. That feeling that everything is possible. That complete removal of all doubt. The trust that what was given to us is meant to become REAL.
Nothing is impossible! In fact, the only thing that would make anything impossible is the belief that it is.
When did it happen for you and do you still believe it?
Good Journey My Friends