Rumblings of a soul when drunk

What you don't realize is, the minute you stop talking your dreams out to strangers is the minute you give up on them.
And you tell yourself, it's because I don't want people to mock me or bring me down. It's because it's no body's business but my own. It's because this is a vulnerable part of me I don't feel like I have to share.
But the thing is this. The minute you stop talking about them is the minute you stop believing in them is the minute you decide to start fooling yourself into that you're being realistic and you're only giving yourself time.
People, they give up on their dreams and then they want you to give up on yours. Like a domino dream effect. And they all tumble down...
And maybe, just maybe, the thing is this. You have to stop running your life by other people. Someone is always going to think you're being ridiculous.
When you shape yourself to fit your surroundings, you don't get comfortable. All you do is blend in and kill some other little part of yourself.
Become a little bit like everybody else. One more mediocre pedestrian.
Maybe the thing to do is to shut yourself up and smile and nod and scream your dreams at the top of your lungs, so loud that you don't hear anyshitbody yelling back.
Just like when you were a kid. And you told everybody, smiling, that the tooth fairy brought you money. Such unabashed conviction and naivete that nobody wanted to say otherwise and people actually egged you on.
Maybe this is how our approach to everything should be. Childlike. Untainted.
Funny story, how our belief in ourselves in inversely proportional to our size.
And maybe this is the just the effect of the cheap wine I had earlier. And maybe not.
You know what they say. Vino Veritas.
And when that time comes when you realize that people believe in you more than you do, start screaming. Scream your hopes and your dreams. Scream your plans.
Eventually you'll find that not caring who's listening has given you the strength to believe in yourself again.
Become who you are.
Extraordinary.