Like many, my thoughts lately have been scattered.
I can think straight, but when it comes to translating my thoughts into words, they seem to die, like a filled balloon slowly losing its air.
The drive home from school today was sunny so I allowed myself to roll down the windows and crack open my sunroof. When I pulled into my driveway, my eye caught the extremely large tree that sits on the corner of my yard.
I grabbed my journal, stuck a pen in my mouth and climbed meticulously into the tree. Unsure how to sit lady like in the tree, at the same time avoid a fall, I gave up ettiquette and straddled the large branch.
I wrote my usual page then shut the leather bound book and let the combination of sun and breeze create temporary warmth on my skin and tangles in my hair. Meanwhile, my thoughts went awry:
I sat, picturing my life in a week, a month, a year, five years, twenty years?
There are many things we would like to do and accomplish in our years, although we cannot plan for anything.
A harsh truth: Plans set limitations, and in all honesty invites disappointment, for nothing ever goes accordingly.
Although we shouldn't plan, that doesn't mean we shouldn't chase after our dreams.
If I could eat dinner with ten people, living or dead:
1. Jesus
2. Anne Frank
3. Henry David Thoreau
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Dave Matthews
6. Dr. Suess
7. J.R.R. Tolkien
8. Rosa Parks
9. Aron Lee Ralston
And Finally, 10. Walt Disney
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
A man who had a dream, who put forth all the money he had. Who is now, one of the most successful people ever to live; Leaving behind a legacy
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
It's one thing to sit back and tell the world what to do, it's quite another to prove what you say is indeed possible.
The world provides us with plenty of hinderings that will [try] to prevent us from succeeding.
I can honestly say from speculation and experience, time heals all things.
Although, we cannot sit back and wait. Our time here is limited, it only seems fair to do the most with what we have when others are cut short of theirs.
Sure, Tomorrow is a new day, but make today a good day, for it will become a yesterday, and our yesterdays are the only thing no one can take away from us.
Plan not, go with the flow of life. Seek everything as a new opportunity and a new adventure.
As calamitous life can get, strive to learn from it. What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, right?
The life we are living is constantly changing and rarely goes the way we want it.
There will be those times when we feel worn down, disappointed and broken; strap a bandaid to the wound, and evetually it will heal. Rip it off quickly and it will sting, but only for a moment. Anticipating your next fall out for they never cease and never hurt worse. But everytime, we overcome.
As much as we like to think they do, people never change.
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
Broke your heart once, they'll do it again.
A liar will never stop lying.
etc. etc. etc.
People let us down, but our dreams never do.
Chase your dreams; The only thing stopping you, is you.
And so, I tossed my journal and pen out of the tree and jumped down. I took a deep breath, and whatever it holds, I enthusiastically welcomed my future, walked inside, smile and all..
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