Like telling a paraplegic with a heart condition, whose dream once was to be an Olympic runner: Follow your dream! It's not too late!
Yes, it is too fucking late. It is highly improbable if not impossible to achieve anything remotely resembling your early dream, and you may die trying. Move on.
Just because sayings like "Follow Your Dream" are promoted by our culture doesn't mean they are true, or kind, or good advice. And then we use the one-in-one-thousand people who succeeded against all odds as an example. That's just cruel. What about the 999 people who failed? Who lost everything. Who are homeless, broken, destitute from trying to follow an impossible dream.
Go ahead and develop new, more achievable dreams, but don't kid yourself that your childhood dream is within your reach, unless it realistically is.
Ignore the rah-rah crowd. Chin up! Stiff upper lip! It's exactly the same type of advice. It's Ideology not kindness. And the same people spouting it will blame you if you fail rather than give up their beliefs that such advice is ill-considered.
Yes, it is too fucking late. It is highly improbable if not impossible to achieve anything remotely resembling your early dream, and you may die trying. Move on.
Just because sayings like "Follow Your Dream" are promoted by our culture doesn't mean they are true, or kind, or good advice. And then we use the one-in-one-thousand people who succeeded against all odds as an example. That's just cruel. What about the 999 people who failed? Who lost everything. Who are homeless, broken, destitute from trying to follow an impossible dream.
Go ahead and develop new, more achievable dreams, but don't kid yourself that your childhood dream is within your reach, unless it realistically is.
Ignore the rah-rah crowd. Chin up! Stiff upper lip! It's exactly the same type of advice. It's Ideology not kindness. And the same people spouting it will blame you if you fail rather than give up their beliefs that such advice is ill-considered.