Daily Cascade

On Chasing

Prompt:
" There are people who live socially correct lives but become a shadow of themselves versus the people who sink themselves deeply into all levels of life, exploring their dreams fully regardless of the cost and to attain their goals. Are certain individuals predisposed to take risks and others not?"
Lene Gammelgaard - Climbing High.
What do you think? Have you chased or known someone who has chased a dream regardless of the cost?

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I am not very good at chasing anything. If my husband hadn't shown up on his own and I knew of his existence, I might have chased him, but I got lucky in that, too.

Fact is, I never had to chase anyone. Well, except my wild younger son when he was two years old, and he could and would run into traffic...

Where anything personal is concerned, I always kind of do what I like, and in some instances, I can also do what I am forced to do, things like chores, with no complaints. As the result, possibly fame and fortune has evaded me, but I don't really care about fame or fortune, in the first place, and I think I did okay with what I could do without having to butter up anyone or harm myself trying to climb higher.

Yes, I know people who have hurt their own well-beings, psychologically, emotionally, and even physically, while they did just about anything to reach a dream. One of them committed suicide at the end. The others became somewhat fake people. That much ambition, sometimes seen as social climbing, is not worth it.

I am not, however, against working toward a dream, but it has to be logical with a good view of the cost. After all, hope requires sacrifice, which costs something, but also, it may yield something greater, too.

Here the question is: What am I ready to sacrifice? My time, my health, my sleep, my family? Or maybe even my morals?

I mean there is a ceiling--or a stop sign--over everything, even our hopes and dreams.