Youth, Dreams, and Everything In Between. - Page 15

On September 05 2012 05:08 Ma wrote:


Don't be so fucking stupid.

This blog isn't just about BroodWar, it's about something more universal. It's about the balance between giving up your life to achieve your dreams or letting that dream slip to fit in with everyone else and 'socialise' whilst living an inevitably normal and perhaps unfulfilling life. The regret comes from knowing that you could have achieved something that other people won't be able to, and the question that stems is: was the normal life worth it?

Would you say that sportsmen, or indeed almost anyone who has achieved success, 'wasted their youth' because instead of going out partying they worked to achieve their dream. No, me neither. In fact, that's probably the reason why sportsmen are revered - normal people realise they didn't have the dedication to get there, instead, they are sat on their sofas wishing they could swap lifes.

In this way, your view is very narrow and frustrating. It doesn't matter whether your dream is about becoming a progamer, an astronaut or to appear in the olympics. They all require sacrifice, and I know for me personally that if in the end I don't achieve my dreams, I will always have a bit of bitterness because like the OP I would realise that I would only be doing whatever I'm doing because I wasn't where I actually wanted to be. This is why the blog has such an emotional impact on a lot of readers - they've reached an age where they can no longer achieve certain dreams, and can only reflect on the what could have been.