Your dreams are stupid

Well they are, or at least they should be. “My dreams aren’t stupid Bryant, your stupid.” First off it’s you’re, get it right, and secondly if your dreams aren’t stupid then you are doing something wrong. You might think you are doing something right but you are so wrong.

What is a dream? A fantasy? Wish? Hope? Goal? Desire? Yes it is all of those things, but you cannot just limit a dream to one of those things. Webster says a dream is a strongly desired goal. Not just a desire but a desire of a goal. “But why is my dream stupid?” I am not saying your dream is stupid in the sense that I think you are stupid for dreaming such a thing. Like wanting to one day have enough money to be happy. That is legitimately stupid and nobody cares. What I am actually saying is rather your dream SHOULD be stupid. It should be outlandish and silly and crazy and childish and borderline impossible, but that is exactly why you should be dreaming it!

Your dream should be guided by your gifts and talents not by what the world says you are good at. Your dream should be something you aspire to be not something you aspire to have. “I want to be the president one day,” “I want to create technology to help the elderly get up and down stairs.” “I want to bring clean water to those who do not have access to any.” Those are all great dreams. Not “I want enough money to have a Lamborghini and a mansion in the sky and have 100 girlfriends and have a talking robot that makes me sandwiches, oh and I also want to drink those really expensive juices so I can look good for when I look at myself in the mirror…” When dreaming up your dream you should not have the feeling of entitlement of achieving that dream, like “I should be the president because I worked hard and do politics and things.” Yeah but you’re not entitled. You cannot say “good enough.” Because good enough is not good enough when there is room to be great. You don’t achieve your dream until you achieve your dream. And even then you keep on dreaming.

Why is your dream stupid? Because you are smart enough to not dream up some logical thing that you can achieve without giving your best effort. Your dream is stupid because you know it is outside your comfort zone, you know that your 100% best effort will not get you there. That’s why the saying 110% exists, when you don’t think you can give anymore, when you think you are spent and that’s it, keep going and then you will see greatness. You will see your dream. Your stupid dream is now your life. So go live it.

So go ahead, dream a stupid dream and wear your “I’m with stupid” shirt, because I’ll be standing right next to you.

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Why drinking mysterious bottles is good

Imagine a bottle. It’s a green glass bottle. Bigger and heftier on the bottom to hold all the good stuff inside and then smoothly thins out as you go to the top right up to the mouth of the bottle where your lips meet it to get at all the good stuff inside.

What does bottled up mean? It means everything is still inside the bottle, it’s not released, it hasn’t been tipped and spilled into the world or poured into a glass to be enjoyed by an interested entity. Sometimes this bottle has many friends (we call that a six pack, or twelve pack) And they just hang out and wait to be enjoyed. The truth is, nobody is going to want to enjoy you if you keep all of your good stuff bottled up. How will anyone know what you are capable of? How will you know what you are capable of? Someone once said “He who doesn’t dream, doesn’t.” I actually might have just made that up… Does that make me Someone?

Sometimes these bottles are still capped, and never have had the chance to be cracked open because nobody has come along to see what they’re made of. That bottle could then take it into their own hands to pop their top and see what’s inside or never try because they think nobody wants what’s inside them anyway. What do I taste like? Are you asking yourself that question? You probably aren’t because it’s weird and a little gross. But what are you made of? What are you bottling up? Whatever it is, just let it out.

At first it might be ugly. Maybe you pop your cap off and spill a little or a lot. Maybe you try to pour your thoughts, emotions, feelings, passions, dreams, into a glass and you completely miss and it goes every where. That will happen, so is life. Ever watch a little kid pour a glass of milk from a completely full jug? It’s quite entertaining and very messy. But over time that kid gets older and wiser and has practiced enough to splash all the milk inside the safe boundaries of that small clear glass cup. Same with us, we might miss, we might misinterpret emotions we might feel empty, like we don’t have anything to pour. But we always do.

What you need to find is the thing you can reveal your bottled-up-ness to. Find a creative or non creative way to express your inner self. Let the whole world get a taste of what your made of. Like they say (who is they? Nobody knows) “You don’t know until you try it”

Go try it.