My friends aren’t dreamers and it makes me mad.

I’m Elliott. I’m in 9th grade and this is my first Medium ‘post’ or whatever you call this thing. I just wanted to post this about something I’ve been pretty upset about. My friends are not dreamers, they are the opposite of dreamers. Usually this sort of thing wouldn’t upset me, but it’s gotten to the point where it has really upset me.

I’m a person with a lot of goals in my life and a lot of steps to get me to those goals. Sure my friends have goals in life, but they are lame goals. For example, a friend of mine is very interested in writing and becoming an author, but to put it in his words “ Yeah I have goals and I’d love to achieve them, but I’m not going too, sure I might try, but I’m not going to succeed.” I tried to explain to him multiple times that dreams are worth fighting for and if you tell yourself you aren’t going to succeed, you aren’t going to. He said he understood my point, but he shouldn’t rely on that happening and he talked about wanting to try and then when it doesn’t work move on to something else. Then I stood up and looked at him straight in the eye and said “ WHAT THE F#$% IS WRONG WITH YOU “. No, I didn’t really do that, mainly because it was in a class but that is besides my point.

It isn’t just this one friend, it’s basically all of my friends. They all have okay goals in life but they don’t seem to believe in themselves at all. They always talk about this thing they want to do in life, but it’s always followed up by “ but when that fails “ or “ when I give up “. It just makes me think they are stupid, if they are life goals then dunk the freaking basketball and really try instead of giving up on yourself. This all results in me wanting to not be around them as much anymore. I wouldn’t want myself starting to believe this about myself. If the people I am referring to ready this, DREAM up and dunk that freaking basketball.