More on Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso said:

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

My question is, how many people actually manage that? How many people out there actually love what they do? All around me I look and I see very few people who do and that is really a crying shame. I am ashamed for all of us out there that have let our dreams get too far away that they seem like a distant star that we could never reach. Shame on us all.

I get it, I get it, there are mouths to feed and there are bills to pay, but how can we manage to do both? How can we tighten our belts and forgo some of those luxuries so that we can follow our dream and reach our full potential?

This dichotomy that a lot of us have permitted to rule our life, how can we overthrow it? How can get out of the endless spiral of living day by day, slaving away at jobs we hate, and hope and dream that one day, one day, we'll be that rock star, we'll be that astronaut, that painter? How much courage does it take to say to the world that we are different? We are special?

Because that is what we are, special, in every sense of the word. Of course not all of us, there are the occasional overly mundane individuals with no imagination whatsoever, but they're there for a reason. They're there to make us feel more special, to realize just how special we are. See, they're not a complete waste of space...