#AwakeningYou: BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS… – @StevenHaastrup

‘We are more likely to accept challenges and move on to bigger issues in life if we think favorably about ourselves.’

I anxiously reflect daily on this… “That I am so little within, that I am not able, that I am never able to do what they do… I even steep so low to think that they are lucky.

Welcome to #AwakeningYou – a Tuesday weekly script of #StevenSpeaks.

I want to let you know that if we have a healthy opinion about ourselves, it will manifest in the size of our dreams. We are more likely to accept challenges and move on to bigger issues in life if we think favorably about ourselves.

There is the dreamer in each of us. Circumstances of life and people we have come across along the way might have contributed immensely in silencing the dreamer. Failures and disappointments of life may have suggested to you that nothing good can come out of you again.

Many men, including the ones whose opinion you respect may have confirmed there can be no special place for you in history.

I have come to realize that the problem is not with the circumstances or the people, but with you who have agreed with their suggestions. No man can pull down the dreamer in you without your permission. The dreamer dies on the altar of your acquiescence and not on the bed of the unfavorable circumstances or remarks

But come to think of it… Why not stop for a moment and play the little child you used to be. Remember those dreams you used to have. Your minds used to soar above the challenges and the realities of your environment. Where there had been pain, you had dreamt peace; where there had been suffering, you had imagined joy. You were poor, but your night was never complete without a dream of abundance. You remember how you once felt when you saw an injustice done to someone. You had vowed to change things if only you could be in a position to do so. You remember playing the Rambo, fighting solely against man’s inhumanity to man. You promised to fight corruption. You were willing to stand alone if necessary. Remember how you used to support the underdog. You used to go for the weakest link and unleash the power of your support. You never wanted anyone to lose out of life.

You were living for something. Life was good.

That was then. Those days may look buried and forgotten. The good news is that you can awaken the dreamer again. The power to do so lies with you. But if this may help: there is a nation out there waiting for you to dream again. There is a world, hoping against hope that you will make your life count again. But the question remains: Will you dream again?

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