Never give up on something you really want

Some one just tweeted that statement in this form "never give up on something you really want. Its difficult to wait but even harder to regret". Never a truer statement has been put on twitter. But how many of us give up and what makes us do so?

I know I am guilty of it, like over my 40th this year, I have had to cancel all plans I had to go to the Ivy for my birthday, something I have wanted to do for years, for two reasons mainly money but also it would be an massive strain for me to get there and back in current state. Yes I have given up on that and the regret is already being felt. But that's something small, how many of us have given up on the big stuff, getting married, going to university and so on. The question is why? what makes us prefer regret than to fight for it?

The world in its current state isn't an easy place to live in unless you have a very high paid job, enough of a nest egg stored away you could start your own nursery and excellent health. This is world wide, although the actual physical demands have got less the social factors have got harder. The days of living in caves and hunting dinner with a stick are long gone. In fact in western culture they are reduced to the dusty pages of text books. Even though less than 100 years ago Native Americans were still doing that. In fact the worse causes of social control haven't really been dominate until the turn of the 1900s. Granted life before that was hard due to illness and poor sanitation and nutrition, bur surprisingly as a human race we fought back more. An easy example is the basic civil rights to get votes for women. People died for that cause purely because they were prepared to fight for it. Now a days we don't really fight., sure individuals do like those who have survived extreme trauma fight and fight hard. But day to day do we take the easy option at the expense of our dreams.

Sure we can't always achieve the far fetched dreams we have as children, but those little dreams we have of places to go, people to see, jobs to do, what is really holding us back? ourselves? I think the answer is mainly yes. I have dreams and wishes, I hope I can achieve some if not all of them may be not today or this year even but some time. After all it was the infamous words of Martin Luther King jnr that lead a nation out of the dark ages, shouldn't these words apply to us all?

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."