othing worth having comes easy.
I've heard many people over my years say the following statement in many languages, "Follow your Dreams."
Some people don't understand the gravity of this statement. Even less do they understand just what it takes to do this, the hard work you have to put into a daily routine to really, I mean, REALLY live up to this standard.
I'm not talking about a few bursts of concentrated effort. Or late night promises of change.
I mean pursuing something close to you with little to no form of external appreciation, compensation, or recognition for a long time.
Well, it can be hard.
Very hard.
Try to imagine a year of failure.
Putting your time and your heart into a project that is fond to you, nurturing it, seeing it evolve, and feeling a sense of pride for it. The spring was the introduction, the character-building, the plot was just starting to come into the light. The summer made you rethink the setting, add a character at the climax of the story, get rid of a whole chapter all together. In the fall, you thought that scene with the machete was just way too much. Winter was for editing.
Now, watch it fail and start from scratch.
Add a family into the mix and a fellow successful classmate.
Now multiply that by 7.
That's 2,555 days of creating, drafting, brainstorming, scrapping, recreating, frustration, but most of all, perseverance.
This article is about perserverance. Ang Lee's road to success is humbling and inspiring.
