請堅持自己的夢想

元墨眸等

We were just about getting ready to warm up for the practice game over the weekend when I had an interesting conversation with one of the teammates I actually didnt know quite well.

“So what do you do?” he asked.

“Well, we work for ourselves, and we run a software company,” I replied.

“Really? Thats awesome! I work for xyz company, but you know I always wanted to get into animation design and work for myself. It was my dream. I got stuck in the wrong industry.”

“You arent dead yet, are you?” I thought, trying hard not to say that aloud. He continued, “You know, I have been wanting to do this for 10 years now, but once you have a family, its very tough to do anything else.”

I couldnt resist any more, so I said, “Thats great, if you really want to do that, maybe you should take up some animation classes, or do some self-learning at your own pace. That would be a good start. ”

The reply came, “Its very difficult, with family, full-time job, no time. I would love to, but I cant.”

Reluctantly, I suggested, “Then maybe you should consider training full-time for a few weeks or months and perhaps dive in full-time.”

He looked at me like I had just asked him to cut off his right hand. “Are you crazy? Where will the pay check come from?”

Realizing this conversation was heading towards an argument with someone I didnt know very well at the first place, I chose to just smile and leave it at that. But it made me think. What is it with people refusing to take some risks to follow their dreams? Are their dreams not worth it? If not, why do we sulk about them later? Dont we owe it to ourselves to at least give our dreams a fair shot?endprint