Into the deep end

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.-Henry David Thoreau You cannot allow the whims and constraints of others to be your shackles. No more than you can allow the dreams of others to drive you. Stop being influenced by small minded ambitious driven individuals. Do not allow them to assert themselves in your life. If you believe you are free, then live as such a free man would. Chase your own dreams and visions and stop living for the acceptance of the nay sayers too frightened by their own shadows to venture into the deep waters. You have been given a gift. Pursue your dreams as if they were real. They soon will be. Go confidently forward. Leave the timid in the shallow waters where they belong.