Hey, I love the poem and I really feel your pain. Thank you for sharing. What I have found is that deferred dreams come back and present themselves to you like fruit to be plucked when the time is right. Sometimes you need to take a sideways step and work on something else that is fulfilling and gives you the skills and and confidence so that when the opportunity to manifest that dream arises you are ready to take it. It might take years though, as it did in my case. I thought that dream had died but when I saw the opportunity to grab the dream staring in my face, I realised I've simply been working my way towards it subconsciously. And you probably are too. So just do things that make you happy and feel good and the opportunity will present itself.
Don't have the best answer for this but what has helped keep me sane is to think of my dream as a beacon, something that I am constantly swimming / rowing to and will, hopefully, reach in due time. The journey to the dream may be long, drawn out and arduous but it's always in sight. There will be detours and speed bumps but, all things being well, things eventually work out when you least expect it. Would recommend reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist if you haven't already as well as this piece from Lauren Chanel on Substack (https://laurenchanel.substack.com/p/on-winning-losing-and-living).
Hey, I love the poem and I really feel your pain. Thank you for sharing. What I have found is that deferred dreams come back and present themselves to you like fruit to be plucked when the time is right. Sometimes you need to take a sideways step and work on something else that is fulfilling and gives you the skills and and confidence so that when the opportunity to manifest that dream arises you are ready to take it. It might take years though, as it did in my case. I thought that dream had died but when I saw the opportunity to grab the dream staring in my face, I realised I've simply been working my way towards it subconsciously. And you probably are too. So just do things that make you happy and feel good and the opportunity will present itself.
Don't have the best answer for this but what has helped keep me sane is to think of my dream as a beacon, something that I am constantly swimming / rowing to and will, hopefully, reach in due time. The journey to the dream may be long, drawn out and arduous but it's always in sight. There will be detours and speed bumps but, all things being well, things eventually work out when you least expect it. Would recommend reading Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist if you haven't already as well as this piece from Lauren Chanel on Substack (https://laurenchanel.substack.com/p/on-winning-losing-and-living).
Have faith, and courage even when discouraged!