THE GIFT OF A DREAM (27); THE ONE IN THE MIRROR!

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” - Albert Einstein

We have been asking the question “what happened to your dream?”, that great vision you had, that passion that drove you, until you saw a duplicate that failed, someone that failed trying to do what you are dreaming of and you stopped shut in your tracks and your passion died. I have come to discover that one of the reasons why people give up on their dreams is that someone ahead of them has failed trying to do what they were dreaming of achieving and thus left them with a negative picture of their future. I call it negative peer pressure, and peer pressure can be positive when you are surrounded by many successful examples.

Em Griffin in his book The "Mindchangers" describes an experiment done by Solomon Asch with groups of 12 people. They were brought into a room where four lines of unequal length were displayed. They had to decide which two were the same length and publicly vote for their choice. Person after person after person (11 in all) voted for the wrong line-

-because they had all been told to ahead of time. The one individual who was in the dark couldn't imagine how in the world all these seemingly normal people could all choose the wrong line. When it was his turn to vote, he had to decide, "Do I go with what I know my senses are telling me, or do I go with the crowd?" 1/3 of those tested caved in to group pressure and changed their vote to agree with their peers.

You must understand that you definitely may not be the first to have the dream you have and many people may have tried to attain what you are aiming at, but one thing is certain your outcome cannot be judged by their outcome. Never allow negative outcomes cause you to relent on your vision. Yes someone failed at it before but your case shall not be the same. God has created each one of us uniquely different, the person that matters most is the one you see when you look at your mirror.