Finding, Keeping, living–our Dreams (and head butting the little voice in our head that tries to distract us)

Do you have a dream?  A plan for the future?  Do you know what you want to be when you grow up?    By the time we’re young children a small seed of desire to ‘do’ something with our lives is planted, but sadly, a drought of apathy comes along and starves our dreams before they have a chance to grow.  Or, sometimes a flood of reality washes away the fragile roots.  Be wary of the person whose sees dreams as a threat to their black and white existence.  These people lost theirs long ago and can no longer appreciate the beauty  and wildness of dreams.  Protect your dreams from the storms of life that would sweep them up in destructive wind and soaking rains.

Do you want to change the world?  Take action!  Do people scoff or roll their eyes?  Ignore them.  Save your pennies and save the whales.  Do you want to immortalize yourself with the power of a carefully chosen word?  Pick up your pencil and write.  Do you want to be the best at something?  Practice.  Don’t listen to the naysayers who try and drag you down into the dungeons of  the real world.  The world is what you make of it.  The dungeon is but an unlit room with self imposed shackles.

There is a voice in all of our heads that likes to tell us we are not good enough, that we will never be as good as the best.  Why even start?  Won’t we just be disappointed in the end?

Don’t believe the voice.  Run from the voice, or better yet chase the voice into a dark alley and show it whose boss, and when it comes back (it always comes back) flex your growing confidence and watch it run.

Dreams are wild, unkempt, sparkling, hopeful, scary, challenging.  They are an ember of beginnings.  Don’t just sit back and watch the light fade, blow on it, feed it, build it and fan it into a blaze.

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