Are you ready?

Returning home, I was in a hurry due to the rain, and without wanting to pay attention, but already paying attention, I heard a guy talking on the cell phone, and he made a scared face, and replied: “I don’t know if I’m ready, I don’t know, I’m not prepared!” I have no idea what conversation was taking place on that call, but I started to wonder: is there anyone ready? Were we prepared for life, all along?

I don’t know how to answer that exactly, but I believe that we are hardly ready or sure of what we are doing. We simply face fear, with the confidence that we can overcome the barriers, solve the problems that arise, but as I said, only with confidence, never with the certainty that everything will work out.

I think the best policeman was afraid to pick up a gun for the first time; today’s experienced doctor was already afraid of making a mistake when taking his first exam; the excellent bus driver was once afraid of failing the goal test. Going further, even great geniuses must not feel ready, despite having the confidence to achieve the desired results. For example: Did Santos Dumont, inventor of what we know today as an airplane, really not think that his first dirigible balloon could crash on the ground?

All that comes to mind is that we really have no idea of ​​most of the things we are doing, and even less, we are aware of our capacity for creation, and we don’t even imagine how capable we are. How many times do we do something that people consider sensational, without the slightest intention? Things just happen! And for it to happen, you suddenly thought something vaguely, read something, had an idea, went out there and did it. We have our dreams, we believe and things are happening, with effort, with willpower, with HOPE. We are not only capable of changing our own lives; we are all capable of changing the world!

For you who read me and don’t believe my words, I ask you to think a little about your whole story. How much did you think you could never do, and did it perfectly? How many times did you not value yourself, until everyone recognized your great achievement? The grandeur of what we do is not in the repercussions it causes, but in that feeling that hits you deep inside yourself, in that realization of doing something that makes you proud of being who you are. And that, we can all achieve, just believe and fight for the dream to become a reality!

There was a risk that such a “flying object” would fall from the skies and never have flown, ridiculing the young inventor. But Santos Dumont believed he could… the result you already know, he flew!

More texts by Victor Neves here – It’s never too late to change

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