Do what you dream...
"If I told you that when you woke up tomorrow you could do anything, with anybody and be anywhere you wanted, what would you do? There are no constraints whatsoever. This has nothing to do with being reasonable or sensible. ...The idea is not to set this up as your goal, but it’s to clarify the kind of things you really want out of life. People are absolutely brilliant at compromising their hopes and dreams and trust me, it’s a crap thing to do so don’t be one of them." - Tim Brownson at The Discomfort Zone
I know very few people who've always known what they were meant to do with their lives. I met a guy when I was in college at UTA. He was going to be an accountant. He had grown up wanting to be an accountant. I'm sure that by now he is as he predicted and aspired to be... an accountant. And I know of one other. She has been an actor since the day she was born. She's known it since she was 5 years old. And she is convinced and convicted to be one. It's what she feels born to do.
And I believe that we must all start to remember what it is that we always wanted to be when we grew up - to perhaps find clues to what we could be doing now to be truer to our purpose and our calling in this life. And some of us have never even sat down and listened to our selfs long enough to know what our purpose might have been and might still be.
And when we finally know, or if we're lucky enough to have known all along, we must listen to that calling and go where it tells us to go. And if we don't get there tomorrow, we still focus on our goals and our dreams. We may not know exactly how we're going to get there. And we're not sure when, but we know we will arrive. And that's what matters after all.
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."- Winifred Holtby, O Magazine, September 2002
I know very few people who've always known what they were meant to do with their lives. I met a guy when I was in college at UTA. He was going to be an accountant. He had grown up wanting to be an accountant. I'm sure that by now he is as he predicted and aspired to be... an accountant. And I know of one other. She has been an actor since the day she was born. She's known it since she was 5 years old. And she is convinced and convicted to be one. It's what she feels born to do.
And I believe that we must all start to remember what it is that we always wanted to be when we grew up - to perhaps find clues to what we could be doing now to be truer to our purpose and our calling in this life. And some of us have never even sat down and listened to our selfs long enough to know what our purpose might have been and might still be.
And when we finally know, or if we're lucky enough to have known all along, we must listen to that calling and go where it tells us to go. And if we don't get there tomorrow, we still focus on our goals and our dreams. We may not know exactly how we're going to get there. And we're not sure when, but we know we will arrive. And that's what matters after all.
"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."- Winifred Holtby, O Magazine, September 2002
:D Mom, you're so insightful! I love that about you!
ReplyDeleteLove you!