Transform Your Dream into a Website
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
- Ernesto Guevara
The Anything You Want conviction drove me to the world full of possibilities. I read Derek's blog again. His blog remained as insightful as always. I still love his words. I still love his writing. I still love his being. I admire him as a good writer. All of a sudden, a light bulb went off in my head. Why couldn't I be a writer like Derek?
I’ve always had a thought that sits at the back of my head: someday in the future I will be an author. But I didn't know where to start and what to write. So I started a blog - One Way Ticket to Future - to create an archive to showcase my writing to Derek that I have the ability to co-write a book with him.
Using Weebly and building a blog, learning English and writing in a second language, all of these were something very easy to do. Your 18-year-old cousin has the ability to do the same. But only one out of ten would do this because of this four-letter name: FEAR. The fear of the unknown. The fear of failure. The fear of humiliation. The list of different types of fear is infinitely long and diverse. It is easy to do all the work in your bedroom and brag about it to your friends. You can say whatever you like as long as they don’t see it. Building a website, facing the whole world is a totally different case. You need to get on the stage to confront all the netizens on the earth.
But I know that, at the very least, there is an audience who will notice my performance. Since I took the courage to turn my hero, who always performs on the stage, into an audience.
Do you have some weird hobbies you would only do at your home and make sure nobody is around beforehand? Yes, I do. Sometimes I rap Eminem’s Lose Yourself like a thick tongue vibrating. Sometimes I do sidekicks like a mechanic robot moving. What if you need to do all these among the crowd in a public place such as a mall? Even though you know that you are a nobody, no one would care what you are doing with your gibberish rap or kicks, you are afraid.
Building a website is just another step you will take to fully commit yourself to your dream. Eventually, you’ll notice that you get used to performing in a public place. And realized the fact that you are just a nobody that no paparazzi is interested. There’s no need to be afraid of anything. No one will give a damn about what you do, even if you're doing it in public.
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