If you don't sacrifice for your dreams, your dreams will?be?the sacrifice. Not a quote to inspire. Just something that’s quietly true. Dreams sound beautiful when we talk about them. But what we rarely talk about… is the price. Before PV Sindhu won silver at the Rio Olympics, she gave up something most of us would find very difficult - No phone. No social media. No internet. For months. Just practice, rest, repeat. Not because someone forced her. Because?she?knew what the dream asked for. This is how you make the whole nation proud! And it’s not just about athletes. Every meaningful goal - writing a book, starting something new, going deep into your craft - demands a phase where you give up things others take for granted. That’s where?Bhagavad Gita 18.37?makes so much sense: “That which feels like poison in the beginning but turns into nectar in the end - that’s happiness in the mode of goodness.” There’s a reason that path works. Because it’s not easy. Because most people avoid it. It’s not about glorifying struggle. But just accepting that something has to give - time, comfort, ease, entertainment - if something greater is to grow in its place. So these days, I don’t ask,?“How badly do I want it?” I ask,?“What am I willing to give up for it?” Because in the end, we don’t get what we wish for. We get what we’re ready to?sacrifice?for.
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