Should we give up our dreams too easily?
A colleague recently mentioned that his 20-year step-son has recently realized her dream of playing professional football. A minor league in Utah - not in the NFL - but an exciting achievement for the young man.
My friend recalled with pride a walk on the beach almost 13 years earlier, when he told his (then), 7 years old, when he grew up, it could be anything he wanted to be . The young man, it seems to heart and realized her dream.
I wonder if Sonia Sotomayor, who was recently appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, never dreamed of reaching such a pitch during his incredible professional development in a South Bronx housing. I wonder if she had first dreamed of graduating with honors from Princeton University and Yale Law School, as she did, and become the first Latina to serve in the High Court. I think she had big dreams, encouraged by his mother, and she saw them through.
I do not think most people are like my friend’s son and Sonia Sotomayor. I think most people in the dream, too fast, too easily. For most of us, life is the way: a job, a mortgage, children. Some people have health problems. Others are a bit lazy. There is always an excuse ready.
My daughter has seven rounds of next week. Today she wants to be a Zookeeper or a veterinarian. Maybe it was his dream, or it may change. Anyway, I think it will get to know a days that dream inside of his burns. I hope she shares with me, because we live just minutes from the beach. It is time for me to take her for a walk and tell her again and again: you can be anything you want to be … ..
