Dream

"You need to know what life you want (as well as what life you don’t want),  then you  have to  muster up the will and the drive to go after it." Bob Greene. Sonny Boy went for an interview yesterday and was asked where his passion lay. What it was that he really wanted to do. He answered truthfully. He doesn't think he got the job. Will he get it? We really don't know. Will his honesty be valued and the employer see that they would have an honest and reliable hard working lad or will they be disappointed because he did not say what they needed to hear; that he wanted to work at their place for ever and a day? He talked about his dream. He didn't hesitate to say what he really enjoys learning to do and he was truthful when he said that he wanted this job because it was close to home and he needed it to complete his college course. He did not see himself being there in the next 20 years.  As it happened, this was the quote that sprang out at me this morning. Do you have a dream? A dream that lives in your head and your heart that you wish you could go after but are scared to? Why do some people overcome this doubt and go for it anyway, regardless of their imagined or feared consequences, of not knowing whether it will work out, stepping out on the edge because they need to know? I have always enjoyed the work of Richard Bach. I think he writes modern day parables which house a message to the reader only they can interpret as meaningful in their own life and context. My personal mantra comes from one of his books, Jonathan Livingston Seagull:- " I know I can. I know I can and I will. I am willing to move out into the unknown at the risk of my own physical existence because I am totally committed to my belief".  This post is for those of us who dream. Who believe that where they are right now is not the end, their last post, their final destination, their home. Who have the determination to at the least try, and at the best succeed in realising their dream. Who some how have the courage to imagine it might be possible and that all obstacles will eventually fade away and not matter in the final analysis. Call it hope, call it blind faith, call it what  you will, but when that small voice in the back of your mind calls you to step up to the  plate; well, listen to it please. Sue xx