When Your Friends or Family Do Not Support Your Dreams

The people closest to you may never understand or agree with the life path that you have chosen for yourself. The following mental tactics will help you keep your mind sound and focused regardless.

Tactics

The Apple

When you bite an apple, you taste its sweetness. No one else can experience that particular piece of apple right then. Yet you can enjoy the taste regardless. Without the need for anyone else to affirm what you feel. In the same way, your dream is also for you and you can pursue or enjoy it without the acknowledgement of anyone else.

Unrequired

Thankfully, the success of your dream is not tied to every single person's understanding or acceptance. There are people whose friends and family supported and believed in their dreams, and yet they never succeeded. Then there are people who were doubted at every turn and still overcame.

Importance

Your inner peace and your desire to pursue your own path should be more important to you than other people’s validation or acceptance. You don’t have control over other people. You do however have control over your own actions. This is a better scenario than if the opposite were true.

Actions

It is no one’s fault that they cannot relate to your hopes and dreams. People are different and so are their preferences. In a world with billions of people, it is inevitable that some will not understand your mission. In the end, your actions are the only way to convince others of your own dedication.