The title for this blog is lifted from the strap line of the new film by Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant - Cemetery Junction. The film is about a guy who is expected to "do the norm" and get a job, get a wife, work for 40 years, fade into obscurity and that's that. However, he has other ideas.
This made me think about the 'other ideas' and following on from the last blog I started to wonder; why can't we be exactly what we want to be? Why can't we 'chase our dreams' (for lack of a less American-teen-drama-esque phrase)? Why can't we believe in ourselves enough to try it?
In the past 2 years I have become a huge believer that it is possible to do anything you want to do, but you just have to have faith in yourself enough to try it. Mark Twain said, "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." I'm not sure a truer word was ever spoken. I particularly love that ‘explore’ came before ‘dream’. Just go out and see something new, do something you’ve never done before, learn something. Then, and only then, is dreaming really possible.
If you, like me, are at a cross roads in your life and you're not sure whether to turn left in to a safe, comfortable option or turn right in to the more risky, but ultimately desired option, I urge you...no, I beg you, turn right! (I should mention now that I didn't choose 'right' as my preferred option on purpose, and it certainly has no correlation to the upcoming general election. In fact in that particular charade I'd prefer you to go straight down the magnificent middle).
So I guess while the last blog was urging us to stop talking and start doing, this one is saying don’t settle, and believe yourself enough to try.
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