When It Feels Safer Not to Hope
You’ve kept your hopes modest.
Dreams, manageable.
Aspirations, quiet.
Because the fall from “too high” hurts.
Because someone once told you, “Don’t get your hopes up.”
Because daring to want more has cost you before.
So now, dreaming feels risky.
Safer to expect less than to be let down.
But here's the thing:
Playing small doesn’t protect you. It withers you.
The ache of disappointment is real—but so is the ache of never trying.
Dreaming is an act of aliveness.
It says: “There’s still something in me that wants to become.”
And that something?
Is sacred.
Ask yourself:
Who taught me to be careful with my hope?
What would I risk if I trusted myself to rise again?
What dream keeps tugging at my sleeve?
You are allowed to dream big.
Not because there are guarantees—
But because you were born to reach.
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