Do Not Go Into That Dark Night…

No one can live in a world of despair. 

No one live in a world without hope.

If your dreams have been crushed, dream again. 

If your fears of doing something different overrule your dreams of living more, face your fears. Stare them down. Make a choice to live inside your fears, or to dream a new dream. It is a choice. A real one. 

Do not go into that dark night wherein no labor can be performed, where there is no time to become healthier anymore, no more space to fill-out the largeness of your soul – not enough light to see your dreams reflected any more. 

 Would you rather go on being in the place you have built for yourself, with its walls and fences, its dark rooms and unlit corners? Or go bravely into that place where dreams are realized, where hope is the energy you live upon every day, where the faces of those you care so much about are bright and happy because you helped them build their dreams too?

And if, in the end, if failure strikes you one last time, and you leave this planet unfulfilled, wouldn’t you rather say to yourself that you tried, that you had moved past your fears, that you gave it your all?

Wouldn’t you rather spend your time remaining trying to do all you know you can be, rather than staying in this place of pain, this space of frustration, that dark night of desperate longing you found yourself in before you began your last quest to be all you were meant to be?

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