If you have ever felt like it's too late to follow your dreams, that it's too late to discover and live a life of purpose, then you might be setting your own limitations and creating your own mental prision.
There is this story I was told a long time ago, that I like to tell when explaining this perspective, at the end of the day we seem to learn better with stories and in my case this has been no different.
The story talks about a young man who was studying to be a doctor in a prestigious university. He was one of those young minds full of thirst, but at the same time full of fears and insecurity.
On his first day of class as he walked to the first hour, he kept on thinking to himself how he had to ace all his classes, how he had no time to waste, how he had to be a doctor in less than 7 years, because he did not want to waste his youth just studying.
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As he walked to the first class he noticed an old man standing by the door who started to walk into the classroom as well, he look at the old man and said "Good Morning professor" without much hesitation the old man replied "Ohhh no young man, I'm a new student just like you".
"But how old are you?" replied the young man almost in shock, but without hesitation and with a smile on his face the older gentleman replied "I've just turned 73 this month.... " The young man of the story could not believe his eyes and ears so he asked, just to confirm "Are you studying medicine too? and again with a smile the old man replied "Yes of course, I always wanted to be a Doctor and now It's time to follow that dream".
After a few seconds of akward silence the young man just had to open his mouth one more time "But... you will be 80 by the time you become a Doctor, it takes seven years at least". The old man one again with a gentle tone and gesture said "In seven years I'll be 80 regardless if I follow my dream or if I don't... "
The message is kind of simple, yet powerful... there is no better time than now to start, there is no better time than now to begin your quest of self improvement.
I will leave this post there for now, I'm working on writing Chapter 4 at the moment, but I was reminded of this little story today by a friend and felt like sharing.
All the best to you all, the tribe of good intent.
@chbartist
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OH JOY! ANOTHER BID BOT ABUSER CREATING OPPORTUNITY FOR ME!
For those of you who are unaware, the profile that posted the above article has been over bidding on voting bots in order to place his work on the trending page. A lot of people have gotten upset about this because it takes away opportunities for others, by crowding out their work on the site. As well, since he is overbidding on the bots, he ends up causing a negative ROI, making the option completely useless for all of the other bidders who don't deliberately over bid.
NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, SAY THE DETRACTORS!
But I don't say that. It is absolutely his right to spend his money any way he wants and post feel good advice content designed to get people to continue with their own honest work, blindly unaware of how he is gaming the system. To anyone who complains, he says: "Concentrate on your own blog instead of complaining." Well you know what?
UNDEAD RICK SPRINGFIELD IS RIGHT PEOPLE!
IN FACT I say take his advice to the next level by getting on board the:
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That's right folks it's time to use the abuser, ride his coattails, tie my wagon to the dragon and gain leverage by committing one of the cardinal sins of Steemit ettiquite and leave an elegantly designed and humorously written link spam post in the comment sections in order to grab some of his AUDIENCE!!
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I call this GOODSPAM and IT'S A BIG TIME SCENE FOR ME, FABIAN MY FRIEND. In fact, it is in the spirit of #gratitude and #respect that I'm doing this. Gratitude to this massive overbidder for providing me with the opportunity to present my work to a larger audience, and respect for that very audience's capacity to discern the subtle irony and satiric value of this endeavour.
My Commitment: I will only do this on posts that have abused the bidding bot system.
FOR IF I HAVE SEEN FURTHER, IT IS ONLY BY STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
And these are some giant shoulders I am standing on here and so without further ado here is my bid bot abuse caboose link:
Chapter Fourteen, ACT TWO of my ongoing Freewrite Serialized Story
For the past two months I've been writing my own continuous story based on @mariannewest's 5 minute free write prompts.
So far my main character has run from pursuers after waking up in an abandoned barn, slept in a jet engine turbine beneath a tree, discovered an underground world, traversed across the sea beneath an underground sky and miniature sun, dove into the sea in the hold of a wooden duck submarine, found a doorway to a mountain in the basement of the submarine, gone skiing down that mountain into a frozen canal, where he encountered the Living Church at the shores of a second ocean, entered the Church, eaten energy wheat kernels while being granted a name by the Abbot of the Living Church, followed a snake to a glass door that denied his name and therefore entry, and has just now been stung by a crazy wasp.
SOUND LIKE A FUN RIDE? WELL YOU CAN READ THE LATEST CHAPTER HERE!
A GREAT BIG WHALLOPPING PILE OF THANK YOU to the guitar guy up there FOR PROVIDING ME WITH THIS UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY AND THANK YOU EVERYONE ELSE FOR CLICKING THAT LINK AND SUPPORTING MY CHANNEL!
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