Are you living your dream and if not what's stopping you?

Question

Remember when you were young and you actually believed you could be anything you wanted to? Why does that confidence fade as you grow older?

Answer 1

Great question. This life is a dream and I living it.

"Mind is the builder." -Edgar Cayce

Answer 2

I am finally living my dream: happy, contented and at peace with myself and my choices in life as well as the consequences of those choices. Most peoples' confidence fades a bit as they become older due to a lack of successes on the way thereby paving the way for unhappiness to follow. I've also had my lack of successes but due to the fact that I recognize the reasons behind my lack of success in any given venture then strive to make the needed changes I am a very happy person today.

Answer 3

My dream went away because I have always lived a sheltered life. When I got grown I had to find out things the hard way. Things like you should have insurance on everything, and like you have to pay for stupid things like license plates every year. I feel like if I had more money that I would be able to fulfill my dreams of going around the world to help the Hamitic/Cushite peoples.

Answer 4

Fact from fiction, truth from diction. Unless you have very low budget dreams like laying in a meadow watching th clouds go by. 98.7% of people are not really living their dream as they could because they do not have a boat load of cash. If you love to cook. If you had a grip, enough dead presidents to dam the mighty Mississippi you can have any kind of restaurant you wanted. And if you were a lousy cook. Who cares? You would not need walk-in traffic to pay your staff, the gas, food or anything because you could cover it. Same with anything else. People do not do a lot because they do not have the money to fail at it. If they had money, they're have time. If you wanted to be a dancer but most thought you could not dance worth crap. You could build your own theater, produce your own play or musical ans place yourself as the star and dance in front of thousands. And when the word got out you still could not dance, you could let them in free and still pay the bills. And you have more than enough cash to hire the best dance coaches the glob over if you really wanted to be better. Cash, money, skrill, ends, grip, fetta, dough, guzambos, smackers, lettuce, dead presidents, call it what you want. the more you have, the better your chances to your dreams

Answer 5

For the most part I am living mine.

What happens? Life.
Some things, usually the physical, do not always turn-out the way you thought they would.

ie My husband and I wanted more children, about two years apart. Turns out that one of my ovaries was sterilized when I was a child. We were fortunate to have the two (5.5 years apart)we had. Happily we were able to adopt one more child, but even that can be prohibitive.

My brother wanted to be a pilot, but was in a bad car accident when he was 17. He broke his back and that disqualified him. (It was probably the fact that the rods in his back made it difficult for him to turn his body very quickly.)

Answer 6

It's got little to do with whether or not the confidence is still there, and a WHOLE LOT to do with having financial responsibilities.

Answer 7

Dreams are for people who have no respect for others. If you have been told you must have such you have been deluded. Life is worth living by the friends we have fostered and been able to share happytimes with. Of course you can keep living in fantasyland, thats what advertisers want, the belittlement of others at their profit.

Answer 8

"Confidence" turns into "reality." Similiar to why you thought you could fly or be a super hero...you now realize that isn't possible.

What is stopping me from living my dream? Money.

Answer 9

Lack of confidence!

Answer 10

Living my dream has begun, I am taking my dream slowly to the limit till I cant enjoy it any more . . when I am too old.