Chasing Elaborate Dreams is STUPID AF. You're just going to disappoint yourself.

[CarbonBraddock]

not everyone dreams of being rich and famous. first of all, merely being in america makes you richer than millions of people, so you are already winning. but being in america and being poor makes a lot of people just dream of having enough to not have to live paycheck to paycheck. that is very attainable for most people. the problem is that we live in a society that doesn't favor being smart with money, so most people will not seek out the right info to get where they need to go. the only thing i would tell someone with big dreams is you need to have a fallback plan in case it doesn't work out. i would never just say you ain't shyt for having big dreams like the op did.

 

[Unknown Poster]

do what you want and fukk with others think.

Your happiness is what matters, nobody reall give a fucc about your happiness. nikkas telling people not to chase their dreams is mad because their stuck being miserable.

That harsh truth.

Crab in a barrel syndrome.

 

[Unknown Poster]

President Obama.

/thread

That's why I'm gonna miss him when he leaves office.

Imagine if we had more black men and women like him in positions of power...that we could see...EVERYDAY.

Imagine how that would change the perception of black men and women on others and on themselves.

 

[DrX]

Same. I want to pass down something to my kids they can be proud of. Like a business position, or $1 million dollars to follow their own dreams. Not debt and a speech about "going to college and getting a degree" just to be unemployed and sleeping in my basement cause the field they majored in isn't hiring.

i feel u breh, most ppl probably think were crazy or delusional but i doubt the meaning of life is working, growing old and dying....old ppl actually regret not chasing their dreams .... i rather try and fail then just accept the status quo...

What Do People Regret The Most Before They Die?

 

[Unknown Poster]

.... i rather try and fail then just accept the status quo...

I tell people this all the time.

It's better to try to achieve a goal of a dream you wanted to achieve in life, than to never try at all and just say..."what if" for the rest of your life.

 

[alpo]

I hate to hear people talking all this fantasy BS with type of path or plan. "I'm gonna to change the world"


Really? What you gon do, extract energy from H20? Can't even make koolaid right.




Only a few people ever see their dreams come true. It would be like hitting that Billion dollar lottery last month. Face it, most people are born poor and are going to die poor.

What sane person would put so much into something that's fantasy and so farfetched and unlikely to come true? You're stupid.


I've cousin that's been rapping since the 1990s ain't made a dollar. I've dated wannabe models and actresses, the farthest they got was having their photos taken by some perv at the EconoLodge. When I was a teacher, kids asked me, what should I try to be when I grew up. I told them, it's hard to say especially if you from a family that don't have any doctors, engineers or lawyer to get first hand knowledge from. I tell them to chance the money, bcuz money will make it possible for you pursue other endeavors, cuz when you broke and at a job you hate, you're fukked. Most kids just say that sounds good. That's what are society teaches us to do, sound good and look good with no plans of action.

Personally, I've never dreamed. I've only tried my best and avoided CACs, Cops, court and child support. I'm a project baby so all I ever really wanted was a 96 Impala SS, a decent crib and some chicks to bring there.

I'm an OVERACHIEVER!!! :blessed.

What I do do is have goal that I clean make a direct path to. IT cert, check. Buy a house, rent out the basement, check. Finish degree. Save up, buy another property and rent it out. Stop playing yourself and come up with realistic plans and goals.


Some of you are shooting for the stars and never leaving the ground.
I rather climb to the roof, then the trees, then the mountains, just go far as I can.

what happened breh? DC must have broken you! was DC IS THAT HORRIBLE?

 

[Hungry Rabbit]

You're gonna die anyway. Might as well die trying to make your dreams come true.

 

[Stuntone]

what happened breh? DC must have broken you! was DC IS THAT HORRIBLE?

did you even read it all? What part sounds broken?

 

[Lifer11]

To a lot of people they'd rather fail their whole life chasing a dream then play it safe and "succeed" at something they hate. That's not really success if you're doing something that makes you miserable and isn't fulfilling your full potential.

 

[Stuntone]

To a lot of people they'd rather fail their whole life chasing a dream then play it safe and "succeed" at something they hate. That's not really success if you're doing something that makes you miserable and isn't fulfilling your full potential.

Playing it safe doesn't automatically make you miserable. And I never said play it safe. I said plan a path to the things you wants.

I'm sure failing and never coming close to your dreams isn't the best feeling.

 

[alpo]

did you even read it all? What part sounds broken?

people have dreams

 

[DrX]

I tell people this all the time.

It's better to try to achieve a goal of a dream you wanted to achieve in life, than to never try at all and just say..."what if" for the rest of your life.

word, i can honestly say that ive tried/trying....

"saying about not listening to the advice of older black people...they were scared into complacency"

few years back i told my parents what i was going to do, they str8 laughed at me and told me that it wouldn't work, i was crazy....which is fine, but its because they cant see themselves doing anything out the ordinary. older black people are very defeated and are afraid to rock the boat...

black people have to chase dreams because if we don't make the sacrifice and walk the road less traveled , what is the younger black boys and girls going to do? They need somebody to open up doors. If a person got a job that's cool, i don't knock that, I think alot of ppl on here thinking im knocking career ppl, but its not for me personally...were all different so

 

[Cave Savage]

There's nothing wrong with aspiring for more, but people should be most focused with living a comfortable life(a job you enjoy, a place of your own, hobbies, etc.) before anything else

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[Lifer11]

Playing it safe doesn't automatically make you miserable. And I never said play it safe. I said plan a path to the things you wants.

I'm sure failing and never coming close to your dreams isn't the best feeling.

I didn't mean you specifically, but most people who have big dreams are probably pretty eccentric too so anything even resembling a normal life would be miserable to them.

And you said you never dreamed, and all you want is two properties, that's playing it safe. There's nothing wrong with playing it safe, different paths for everyone out there. To me that sounds like a worst case scenario plan, but I have a friend who thinks exactly the same way and by 25 he had two duplexes with 3 of the apartments rented out and he's living for free in the fourth, that's a great head start, but that's not the life for me. Not saying either one is better or worse, but you're saying anyone who has a dream is "stupid", that's bullshyt.

I watched my boy start a vintage sunglass store and in a matter of months he's made the connections of a lifetime, sold glasses to Monica, Meek Mill, and Fab just to name a few and dealt with all of them multiple times in person, he's also worked with multiple semi-famous models, been back and forth between Vegas and South Beach for the last 5-6 months, and this is literally over the course of like 9-10 months. You can't tell me that anyone chasing a dream is an idiot. If a 5'6'' 250lb dude is telling me he's going to the NBA then he's an idiot, but if people are realistic about shyt they can make it happen.

I'm sure setting your sights very low and then only achieving that and realizing later in life you never came anywhere near fulfilling your full potential isn't the best feeling either.