By Jonathan Mead
Dreams that involve helping others and changing the world are considered valid and honorable. These are the admirable, socially approved dreams.
But what about dreams that are meaningless to others? What if your dream is to climb every mountain in the world? Or what if you just want to jump off things?
We give up on a lot of dreams because they don’t “have a point” or aren’t contributing to society. So many of us try to determine if we’ll do something by whether or not it serves others. We get caught up in fake growth.
But what if your dream serves no one but yourself? Does that make it any less valid?
One of my dreams is to do a one-arm pullup. There’s really no “point” to it at all. It doesn’t accomplish... More...