I just want to know if anyone else does this-i dont want to talk to my friends about it because i dont want to seem like some stupid whiner.

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"Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time" ~Timothy Leary

i feel the same way sometimes

i want to be a music composer. do u know how rediculously hard it is to make decent money off of composing? you have to be reeeeaaaally good. i also want to write a musical (theatre geek here lol) and that's a very far-fetched dream too.

but did eric whitacre become a world-renowned modern composer through worrying about whether he could make it? noooo

did steven sodheim write musicals thinking they could never go anywhere? noooooo

you just have to work for it

i get discouraged all the time when i think too hard about my dreams. so i have to make myself stop and realize that things take time and i have to use all my time to get better at my choice of profession

i'm attending college majoring in music and minoring in theatre. everyday is another step toward my goals

please just enjoy life and always remind yourself to work for what you want

the more you work for them, the less unlikely they seem to you :D

just be strong :}

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insanity is what keeps me sane

First, it seems that the ultimate goal in life is to be happy, right? Assuming this is true, let's move on to a few quotes I found..
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer

And last, but not least, a quote from someone you may actually recognize: "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King Jr.

You may not get your big dreams, sorry... in truth, I'm only left with wanting to rule the world. So I say, dream realistically first, then dream BIG.

Nothing wrong with dreaming big but having overly high expectations for yourself sucks . It happens to a lot of people though, because you want to avoid looking at the reality so you don't even try, and instead you escape by getting lost in your head and that leads to minimal productivity which makes it worse.

It's the "if I can't have it all I shouldn't even bother" attitude. Like ok for me it's like with college, I know I can't get into an Ivy League school or anything like that that I wanted when I was younger and worked really hard in school, so now I feel like, fuck it, going to a state school would feel so degrading when I could've done better. Logically though I know that I'll be at least better off going to a state school than dropping out and getting a job now, and those are my only options at the moment. But then I look at my sisters school and I see that there's a point in going to college besides just getting a great job afterwards, I can go to college for the sake of college being fun and enjoy it that way.

That's what you should probably do, work to do as much as you can now at least for the sake of the experience and don't get caught up thinking about where you'll be in ten years. You never know what'll happen.

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^use head phones

It's not impossible to stop dreaming big, but I don't think that that's what you're really after. I think you're dissapointed that what you hope for and what you can/are achiev(ing) are so different. Dream big, but also work hard on getting things done towards that end...and, understand that making big things happen requires small steps. Even little things towards your desired end are victories. Don't let it discourage you that what you want is still distant. Be encouraged by every step you make in the right direction.


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