Nothing is impossible.

Those are just silly dreams. Crazy ambitions. Empty promises. 

When you finally realise that everything you had once built up in your mind as the perfect future, the perfect future you have always dreamt about. Completely falls to a stand still, no not even that, makes you feel like you're going through a trap door. Falling with no safety net. Falling.

I know most people are afraid of that feeling, no one can save you if you are already falling- no one can really pull you out. But isn't it the last couple of inches before the floor that everyone dreads? Rock bottom. The words that bring back memories for everyone. 

But weren't those dreams so clear only seconds or days ago? So clear and close to reaching them you could almost feel that you were in control, that you could reach all these dreams and ambitions comfortably and carry onto to the next steps. 

So, why did it all fall through?

The question I ask myself every time I feel I have let myself down. You relied on this part, this part was the main structure to everything. Now when ever someone says to me " Nothing is impossible", I want to just remind them that "it may not be impossible, but close to it." Because not all things are handed to you on a silver platter, not all things are going to be easy. But all things will have a guaranteed risk of tripping up. 

Nothing is impossible if you set yourself reasonable goals, if you really think about what is holding all your dreams together and keeping it that way, and putting in the same amount of effort in as reward you want to get out of it.

Just to end on that post, a rather "uplifting" picture of someone trying to do the impossible.

Ellie. 

Over ambition.

Is being overly ambitious a curse or just a really big motivator?

Having ambition is amazing. Having a dream of something that you believe in, or something that you want to achieve is what some people use to keep themselves going. It can give a sense of purpose and aim. But when does all this ambition begin to get almost greedy and unrealistic? When do you start hating yourself for not reaching those impossible targets that you have wanted to achieve? 

Maybe those over ambitious aspirations could make you constantly compare what you have now, to what you have wanted to have in those huge fantasies. The reality of your life may be hard to take if you always believed that you would reach those goals, no matter what. Things you have in your life may be amazing, it may be more than most people, but because of these overly high aims it makes you feel like you aren't good enough for all those dreams to come true. You aren't as good enough for yourself. Or maybe that you aren't good enough for others. Humans always have the common fears of rejection and failure, so does this count as another Human fear of failing themselves?

Most people have heard the saying "If you wish hard enough it will come true"- is it really something to go on? Something to base or you're dreams, that maybe be crushed by you yourself not being able to achieve because of it? Or is it something that will lead you to be ambitious, to be inspired? To be a goal to set yourself?

So my question is: Do you think being over ambitious can make reality seem worse? Or is it simply another human feeling that isn't avoidable, even with the predicted failure to these overly high aims?

Ellie