I told my dream to someone today, a goal I've mapped out a plan for, and he laughed. He pretended like he misunderstood my Korean and giggled as if I were trying to play cute when I repeated it to him exactly what I had said. There was no misunderstanding, there was no me playing cute. It was me being honest.
That's the strange things about dreams, since when did they become for kids only?!
If a kid tells you want they want to become an astronaut you're like "good for you" and "you'll be a great one" but then that same kid says they don't play on the jungle gym because they're afraid of heights. No one tells that kid to rethink their dreams or laughs at them. But when an adult, who has surely more life experience, resources and knowledge to think up such a dream, shares a similar dream suddenly they're being unrealistic and have their heads in the clouds. If I as an adult one day tell you I want to become an astronaut, don't you think I've given it much thought and have already pondered whether or not I can actually do it? So shouldn't me as an adult saying I want to become an astronaut be accepted more than if some young kid with fanciful ideas and no real life experience says the same?!
When I told a friend I wanted to date Snickers, she responded by saying "but he doesn't speak English and you don't speak Korean -- you two would never work!" Well, we've been married now four years and that friend, who married someone from her own country, same culture and same language, is now divorced.
You'll be surprised at what you can achieve and become if only you believe.
When I was little I wanted to be something different every week it seemed. I once wanted to become a pilot but when I realized how much math was in flying, I changed to wanting to be a writer -- I hated math. I wanted to be a writer in my free time, a teacher during the day, and then a WWE Diva on the weekends. You know I met a WWE wrestling diva, back when I was in university -- Trish Stratus (real name Patricia). I had started dating a pro wrestler whom she had been helping out. Watching her do her thing in training was like watching a real life super hero except she had no cape. Heck, that woman needed no cape!
I'm 33 now and I'm still not the person I want to be; I'm still evolving and exploring my potential. I must note though that I am a person I never originally imagined myself to ever become. I did the teaching thing and I also did the writing thing but my teaching was teaching Sunday School at church in Canada and then ESL here in Korea. As for my writing, I don't exactly count my homepage here but instead do count the professional homepage of a friend (professional bodybuilder/fitness model) that I help manage, as well as several articles about health and fitness that I've had published both in print and online.
Anyways... rambling a bit too much here.
I won't write to you hear about my plan here. It's not that I don't want you to laugh at me because honestly I don't know who "you" are and I really don't care if you do laugh about it or not. I don't think any dream of anyone's is really deserving of a laugh. A dream is a dream and too many people never search out their dreams and reach their potential. Too many people settle. I've never been one to settle and I sure as hell am not going to settle now. This is just not your dream, it's mine, and it's my dream to enjoy and do with it whatever I want to do. But I'll tell you this, this day in exactly two years -- June 7th, 2016 -- I will be typing this homepage with a whole different title connected to my name.
So to all you out there who have a dream, no matter how big or small it is, hold onto that dream tight. Don't let people who gave up on their dreams talk you out of yours. They may say you dream too big but I think they just think too small.
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