What Are YOU Waiting On?

August 1, 2013

Dreams....aspirations towards the future
       -to contemplate the possibilities of doing something or that something might be the          case....
     - the stuff that you think about
     - a series of thoughts ,images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep

We all have them.  At some point in life we do.  As a kid we've dreamt of who we were going to marry, what house we were going to live in, and what our careers would be.  For some people these dreams became a reality which is awesome!  For others reality sinks in, and those aspirations become lost, blown in the wind, and sadly maybe even stolen.  

I remember dreaming about being being a doctor!  I had the hospital picked out, the kind of car I would drive(Beamed Baby 7.5!), how many children I was going to have, and the age I would retire at!  I never became a doctor, but I sure as hell feel like one with every skinned knee, bump, bruise, or fever my children get!  So yeah I'm a doctor for life now!! 

I remember my sister after me dreamt of being Whitney Houston!  Now she was barely five but baby Whitney was her aspiration! LAWD. But it was cute..laughing.  I remember around age 9, my mom and dad bought me my first boombox.  I would bring that thing everywhere, especially to my Momo's house.  All my cousins would be there everyday.  Our dream was to be like the singing group The JETS!  And everyday we would be out in the middle of the country on my grandparents property singing every song by the Jets.  We would coordinate dance moves and all.  Neither one of us can sing, but we had fun, we bonded, and we inspired one another.

Me and my sister after me would play "Girl".  Hehehe. I don't know why we called it that, but we would dress up, comb our own hair, and put on our mom's heels!  We would take our children(baby dolls) and bring them to day care, and we would go to work(at the office)!  She would be typing away on her computer(a stack  of books) and I would be doing the filing!  I would be writing stories and poetry instead!  That was our thing though and I loved it. 

Dreams never leave you.  Once they're thought of they're embedded in your being.  To pull them out and take the necessary steps to achieve and fulfilling them is solely up to you.  You don't like the way life is going, go to that place you've stowed away those dreams and pull them out!  Let them be the motivation you need to make that change in life you so desire.

I've always wanted to write.  I enjoy this imagination of mine!  Writing is therapeutic for me.  I can say I've always done it well.  When I got married and started having children, I placed it on the back burner.  For almost 10yrs!!!  My inner self was so disappointed with me, and one day she said ENOUGH!  GET YOUR ASS BACK IN THE GAME!  So here I am.  One step at a time.  

So what dream are you sitting on?  Who's taken it away, and what do YOU intend to do about it?  What excuses are you using?  Get rid of them!  Do you want it bad enough?  I hope you do!  Find your mono, look up your resources, dust off those cobwebs, and most of all look Fear and Defeat in the eye and tell it to kiss it where the sun don't shine!!!!  To give up is just not a choice for me anymore.....WHAT ABOUT YOU?

If you don't build YOUR dream
       Someone will hire you to build THEIRS.
                                         - Tony Haskins


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