Everybody I know sits around from time to time and to think about where they see themselves after college. “Should I enter the work force immediately? Should I continue the education process to receive a master’s degree, or go to law school?”
Either way we are faced with a major decision in which we have to decide whether to be a dreamer that has accomplished our life’s goals or a “never was” that has aimlessly roamed through life doing the bear minimum and forgetting about the dreams dreamt when you were a small child.
Think back a minute. Remember how your eyes lit up when you were young sitting on your grandmother’s porch eating ice-cream and that fire trunk drove by- siren blaring, the fire fighters with those cool yellow coats and the dalmatian sitting in the back window with it’s tongue whipping in the air as it passed by. Remember.
Okay, maybe your dream was different- in fact that was never my dream to be one of those fire fighter I think that may have been some from some old movie- but nevertheless I am sure you get my point.
What happened to the youthful dreams that you once dreamt? Are they being fulfilled right now?! By saying right now I mean at this very moment. What are you doing right now to fulfill the dreams that you have held since you were little?
Maybe being in college is an intricate part of you fulfilling your dream of being your own boss, opening a nightclub, or becoming a prominent political leader in the community.
Whatever the dream maybe- is what your doing right now serving as the catalyst to jump start you on the path toward what you have been dreaming all your life. If not you should think about what you should be doing right now to have your dreams become your reality.
So what does a dream do for you?
A dream keeps you from wasting your life. Today people wake up in their thirties and forties, and realize that they’re not who they really wanted to be. Their life doesn’t have anything to show for their years. They work shallow jobs, have never taken that dream vacation and have not taken the first step toward owning their own home.
Either they completely abandon their dreams or changed their dreams to something that satisfied those around them; following someone else’s dream of what they should be.
Then they panic, suddenly regretting the way they’ve wasted time, talent and ability. They wonder why they didn’t accomplish more. They find themselves in mid-life crisis- living vicariously through the younger people around them- further losing themselves in the abyss of the “never was.”
They wish they had chosen differently- a different school or career or spouse. But their real problem isn’t making better choices —it has to do with their failure to pursue a dream that would have made all the difference in their life.
The things that they dreamed about as a youth are now gone; whisked away in a cyclone of life. Giving up the dream of higher education for the sake of a family, a pass on a investment opportunity that could have made them a fortune, or not taking a great job offer across the country because they didn’t want to be home sick. Now they are trapped in the life that is nothing like the way they pictured it.
When people have dreams and nurture them and develop them, they become successful.
Your dreams protect you protect you against wasting your life. I’m talking about the waste of yourself- your talents, abilities, and creativity. You don’t have to go through life being a “never was.” But the question lays in what you are doing right. Will what you are doing right now make your dreams your reality.
Remember that becoming a “never was” is as simple as not nurturing and developing the dreams that you have dreamt your entire life. So what are you doing right now that will make you dreams your reality. The world of the “never was” is a place full of excuses of why dreams never happen.
Oddly enough I believe that there some of us that will fall in the abyss of this world, so we as college student need to do everything possible to nurture and develop the dreams that we formulated in our youth. There is no time like the present to do the things thought of in the past. This is not to tell you what to think but merely what to think about!
