“The casual ones end up having very casual talent and very casual lives”
– Derek Sivers.
I’m Yaël Levey. And I don’t want to be casual.
As far as I can tell, we humans are pretty terrible at pushing ourselves to break out of the mould. We’re brought up believing in “the real world”, believing in the illusion of “normal”. And where does this get us? Well, as Tyler Durden says, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. Just so we can be like everyone else. We forget to believe that we can do things that haven’t been prescribed by society. We forget about our innermost dreams, our desires, our goals. And worse, we postpone trying to remember them, because the ‘real world’ gets in the way – that report our boss wants, fixing up our house, watching X Factor.
See, we’re often scared to articulate our dreams. People will routinely tell you that your dream is impossible, or impractical, or not what you should be doing with your life. You can be looked down and sneered upon for even mentioning the word ‘dream’.
I want to know why its a badge of honour to be slogging away at your desk job working for the man and a point of ridicule to spend any real time working on yourself?
Every day we put our dreams and goals to one side, and start following the same paths that everybody else goes down, the paths that society tells us are the right ones to follow. For some people, they can be perfectly happy following those well-trodden paths, and happy to die in their beds feeling they’ve lived fulfilled and happy lives.
But I don’t want to live like that. I want to be a superhero. I want to fill every moment of my life with purpose and with a tremendous sense of being alive. I don’t want to regret a second, because these are the only seconds I got. I want to live a big, adventurous life doing big, adventurous things.
SO. Here’s what I’m up to:
- Making sure that I get to live my dreams
- Working as a freelance UX Consultant
- Co-founded moflo and dreamBIGLY
- Founded Yael Levey Photography, for amazeballs prints and framed prints!
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