Every person chasing something meaningful will eventually hear it. You need to be more realistic. Aim lower. Play it safe. Be practical. And it almost never comes from people who did something extraordinary with their own lives. It comes from people who talked themselves out of their dreams and quietly need you to do the same, because your reaching reminds them of what they set down. Be careful whose voice you let inside your head. Realistic is just a word people use for the size of their own comfort zone. What feels impossible to them has nothing to do with what is possible for you. They are describing their own ceiling and mistaking it for the sky. You do not have to argue with them. You do not have to convince them. You just have to keep going anyway, and let the results be the conversation. The people telling you to be realistic have never once built the thing you are building. So thank them for their concern, and do not let them touch the vision. It was never theirs to shrink. Xo Adelaide 🤍