Dreamer

If dreaming was an Olympic sport, I am pretty sure you would see my name listed for those representing the United States in 2012. What can I say? I am a completely devoted dreamer. Your reading the work of a girl who has a list of things to accomplish before she turns twenty, an annotated map representing everywhere she would like travel to, and her acceptance speech prepared for when she is awarded her Nobel Peace Prize. Okay woah, now I am starting to sound conceited, sorry I got a little ahead of myself, :] but this is what I do, dream.

Ever since I can remember I have thought this way, constantly dreaming and coming up with new achievements I could see myself pursuing in a perfect world. Whenever I dared to dream, I would always keep my dream world and reality separate. It just seemed natural to do so; I mean who wants the harshness of reality interfering in a world where anything is possible? However, as my dreams have become bigger and I have grown older I have come to realize how wrong I was to keep these worlds separate.

Everyone has dreams, but we don’t always see everyone pursuing these dreams.  It is so easy to blame our lost dreams and unachieved goals on somebody else. It is so easy to give up on a dream because it seems too hard or even impossible to achieve. However, let me remind you that every dream is hard. If dreams were easy to achieve, than there would no point in having them, what makes a dream so special and the accomplishment so rewarding lies in the extreme difficulty and the hard work it takes to achieve it. The celebrities we aspire to be like, the historical figures we read about in text books and even our everyday heroes are so admirable to us because they got to the point they are at now, with a dream. They took their dream and made it real. Our role models have taught us, that it all starts with a dream that you run with.

So what’s stopping you? Take your dream and start moving. Okay, okay, I know it’s easier said than done but I think it so important, as a society that we start taking a step to make a change. The only thing holding us back is fear. So take fear out of the equation. Today, take one step, the smallest baby step, to your wildest dream and see where it takes you. And even if it does not get you as far as you hoped, you know that you tried and you know that you accomplished something. I know, personally, I get nervous to pursue something because I have words like “can’t” in my vocabulary. I know it sounds totally ridiculous and I am aware I am the queen of cheesiness, but I think that making an effort, even if it gets you nowhere, is better than nothing. Who knows you might be the next president or the girl who is known for finding the cure to the common cold, or the next hottest male movie star? You would never know unless you took that vision out of the dream world and put it to work in reality.

From Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother to Tinkerbelle, the most famous fairy out there, Walt Disney has taught us that a little pixie dust goes along way. Unfortunately in life, we have yet to find that the powder from a candy pixie stick creates the same magic. Although it is not in powder form, I have recently found a comparable substitute and that is taking action. If you think this is all crazy then maybe Disney should start putting warning labels on their movies; but I see excessive dreaming as a good thing, something that inspires others and oneself. So I challenge you to go out there, and take the first step to making your wildest, craziest, most ridiculous dream come true. Even if by doing so, you get lost or the end result is not what you had hoped…that’s okay, you tried and hey, it may send you down a path or make you think in ways you never dared to before. But this all starts with a step. A step that I really think you should take. Trust me, it will be worth it.

Think it, dream it, do it.