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Is “Be Realistic” The Dumbest Advice Of All Time?
A well-lived life doesn’t involve lifelong confinement to careers, families, responsibilities, and commitments you deem realistic.
If we are all honest with ourselves, this nonsense “be realistic” advice only came from well-meaning messengers, or adults, who willingly confined themselves to limitations and fears that don’t exist. For the most part, the most impactful messages came from messengers we call our parents.
I want to believe that the majority of our parents did their best to rear us to be successful adults with the tools, resources, and information they had. But let’s consider that a lot of the guidance our parents gave us stemmed from requiring us to do whatever it takes to survive instead of thriving in happiness, wealth, pleasure, and immense satisfaction with life.
This is because they most likely decided to start a family based on raising children for survival, as physical, mental, and emotional compensation for the emptiness and lack they decided was real for them instead of challenging this “Be realistic” nonsense to the point where they can pass down wisdom, money, love, inspiration, and guidance to offspring that isn’t rooted in generational trauma and curses they chose not to remove.
