To Dream Again; A life of truly living.

I had a moment today where I realized that it is ok to follow my dreams, to live the life I've imagined, to go for the un-attainable. When people don't understand the "whys" and "hows" of it all...when they flood us with questions of the logical reasoning or the practicality we are missing out on when we decide that we would rather take the long way around and try to figure out what it is we really want to do with our lives instead of diving in head-first into something that will "do" or just get us by.
I believe there is much, much more to life than this.
We live in a world of practical thinkers. Being safe in our cubicle makes others feel safe just hearing that we are "normal" like they are. They want so badly to hear that we too have succumbed to a life of drudgery and mediocricy because that is afterall what they did for the sake of normalcy as well.
Well,
I am just not ok with all of this. I guess that makes me a dreamer, a drifter, a free-spirit and down-right strange.
The thing is that I know I am not alone in all of this. There are many, many people out there every day striving to follow their hearts, their highest goals and aspirations and live a life doing what they love. They have risked everything for the sake of living their "dreams", and my heart goes out to them. I am taking a performance psychology course in my grad. school curriculum right now, and we discussed this evening the topic of being brave and risking everything by setting ourselves apart from the status quo.
The professor said that those of us who strive for excellence make others around us that are not following this path down-right uncomfortable. That means anyone who has gone off of the beaten path of what would "logically" be the safe path to follow in order to appear realistic and practical to the rest of the world...well...just don't fit in very well. We stand out, but that is alright. Our lives are un-predictable, yes, but the adventure is priceless and the outcome is rewarding. I know there are those of you who still dream every single day. I also know that there are those of you who have forgotten your dream or maybe even thought that it died long ago. I encourage you to search, reflect and find it once again, deep within yourselves. I have gotten so caught up in the "doing" of my every day life that I have even forgotten what it is I am "doing" all of this for. I am on a journey to find that place once again, and invite you all to come along. This is a place where I want to share stories, stir up the fires that once burned brightly and bring back the excitement of what once fueled and propelled us forward into our endeavors. We all had good reasons, whether it was because whatever we did made us feel alive or we had something we wanted to share with the world....one day we were doing our thing and it just clicked. Some of us chose to continue to follow a life of that which we were passionate about, and others let it fall to the way side because "real life" just out-weighed it.
I completely understand all aspects of this. I am anxious to read your accounts and stories of what it was that once too made you "tick."
I am embarking on this journey because I truly, truly believe that there are great things out there for those who choose to never give up, to keep on keeping on, for those who believe.
So come along and share. It is going to be a beautiful journey where we all will discover something beautiful again.