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The quarry you are seeking is invisible to others. They only see what is before them, which arose from what happened before. But you, you thrive on what might be, the possibility of what has never been before, the vision known only to you, an internal image not objectively visible.
You may speak of it aloud, if you wish, but that will be the end of it. The innuendo, doubt, ridicule, derision, and teasing that you subject yourself to will quickly override that brave impulse within you to have created something new.
All new ideas are ridiculed when they first bear the light of day. Sometimes they are violently opposed. If they exist long enough, they are tolerated. Finally, they are embraced and become the new rule for a while.
When Charles Darwin first introduced the idea of the evolution of species, he was scorned mercilessly. He was lampooned in the popular press with pictures that showed his resemblance to a monkey. It did not matter that his ideas had decades of research and careful reasoning behind them. Nor did it matter that his detractors had flimsy evidence other than tradition to explain their point of view.
Stories are legion of the ridicule, the mockery, the jeering, the taunting, and the teasing that all great champions of truth face when they originate a new idea that stands in broad disagreement with the established belief.
Even in your own ambitions, no matter how comparably humble, the same vision-killing energy will be hurled at your head.
The reason for this is quite simple. When you follow your visions, you shame those who do not have the courage to follow their own.
You threaten the comfort zone of those around you. In fact, close friends and relatives may be the first to take umbrage at your audacity in striking out on your own.
People will go out of their way to talk you out of your goals. You threaten their own unfulfilled longings for a bigger, better, more promising life. If you change, you pressure them to step up to a new reality as well.
Of course, all this is unconscious. Your detractors may hold you back simply because you mean so much to them. They are eager to advise you to stick to the trusted and true way, the way it has always been, the safe, known way.
If you hear the beat of a different drummer, march away slowly from the band, not attracting attention. Later on, when your goal is beyond its seedling stage, when approval and nurturing energy is no longer necessary for it to flourish, then you can attract as much attention as you please. By then your way will be the way. And you will then be a champion of a new standard, a hero emerged from the dark shadow of myth.
When you dream big visions, keep them to yourself or a few trusted souls. Later when your vision has emerged in form in the full light of day, it will be too late for the vision stealer to have any sway on you.
A dream is a wish your heart makes -- follow it. Success is about creating visions, but these goals have to be nourished in the dark before they are brought into the full light of day. A seedling vision does not have much of a chance of growing up when it is prematurely exposed to those who are afraid to follow their own visions.
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