CRANKY ALERT.  I’m all for positive thinking.  I’m all for pushing ourselves and encouraging each other to strive to be better. But I’m getting a little tired of the language I’m seeing a lot here on FB.  Language like “only you limit what… you can achieve, ” or “you can be anything you dream.” Well, actually, you can’t.  I can dream a lot of things that can never happen.  I can make myself better, naturally (EVEN better).

But I can’t make myself twenty years old.  I can’t make myself genetically athletic.  I can’t make myself NOT have a double bypass in my past.  The sky is NOT the limit.  We all have limits.  To tell people they don’t is to set them up for feelings of shame when their dreams do not come true. No matter HOW hard I try, or believe, or strive, or work, I cannot look like Alexandre Marx Carneiro here.  Few people can.  We can all get better, but we CANNOT be *anything* we dream.  That is all.

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