why?
There are four obstacles. First: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to di is impossible. We grow up with this idea, as as the years accumulate, so too do the layers of prejudice, fear, and guilt. there comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But its still there.
The second obstacle: love. We know what we want to do, but we are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order pursue our dream.
Once we have accepted that love is a stimulus, we come up agains the third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. We who fought for our dream suffer far more when it doesn't work out, because we can't fall back on the old excuse: "Oh, well, I didn't really want it anyway." We do want it and know that we have staked everything in it and that the path of the personal calling is no easier that no other path, except that our whole heart is in this journey.
When we first begin fighting for our dream, we have no experience and make many mistakes, the secret of life, though, is to call seven times and to get up eight times.
The fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we don't deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endure, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.
This is the most dangerous of the obstacles because it has a kind of saintly aura about it: renouncing joy and conquest. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.
-Paulo Coelho, the alchemist
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