What's your dream? Well, Forget it

By Alan Gibson

One of the silliest yet most enduring of our moral icons is “Never Give Up.”
In fact, prudent people do give up. When one plan goes awry, they make another. When a dream doesn’t come true, the sensible dreamer finds a more possible dream.
When a goal is unreachable, one reaches elsewhere.
If we never gave up, we’d be tilting forever and forlornly at the wrong windmill.
You want to play for Notre Dame? Well you won’t. You want to be a movie star? Grow up. You want to achieve world peace? It won’t happen.
You don’t know the meaning of the word quit? Well learn it. It means capitulate, give up, throw in the towel.
Unless, of course, you’re one of those people who can’t. One who insists, like a child, that miracles and dreams do happen and that you’re not giving up on yours.
Maybe you’re one of those. Maybe secretly I am too, but who wants to look to the world like some kind of obsessed screwball?
[Gibson is a regular contributor of a Bad Attitude.]