Of Dreams....

I wanted to be a Princess at one point in time, but that didn't really last long because I wasn't much into the "normal" girlie things that most other girls my age were into. Instead of Barbies, babies, and beauty pageant enactments, I loved building things, having competitions on our trampoline with my neighborhood friends, creating a water slide into a kiddie pool out of my swing set slide, playing war and spy, and things like that. One time I even flooded part of our backyard to see what would happen, and I ended up collecting 14 earth worms who were attempting to escape the peril I inflicted upon them without realizing it. Anyway, my dreams after my short girlie stage consisted of being a doctor, saving all the animals in animal shelters and opening my own, becoming a famous singer and actor, becoming a soldier like my dad, and other such dreams.

Then, I grew up a little, and I still knew that many of my dreams were unattainable for me, but I also found that I had changed a lot and so had my dreams. I no longer had a desire to be a doctor, and the animal shelter didn't sound like something I would be interested in doing. I wanted to do something bigger, I guess. I wanted to make a dent in this world - change it in some way. But how?

Often people have these huge dreams of what they want to do in their lives, but they never pursue them. We always hear, "Follow your dreams." Be whoever you want to be. It's a great thought... But I'm sure there are many out there just like me who wonder, how? It's tough to follow your dreams, especially when you grow up and realize that it'll take a lot of work to accomplish all that you want to. Many just abandon their dreams and go into a job that will make money, not make them happy. As I mature and grow as a person, I find more and more that it is important to have dreams and pursue them. The work is well worth it, and even if you don’t succeed, you have the lessons learned and the satisfaction of knowing that you gave it a chance to flourish.

These days, my goals involve graduating from college, buying my first car, buying my first home, and finding that special someone to love and spend the rest of my life with. Don’t be shy, it’s not always what you make of the world, it’s also what you bring to it.