Childhood Dreams

This week I read about Randy Pausch and his final speech where he shared all that he had accomplished in his life. He had several childhood dreams that he was able to accomplish in some form or fashion. I was so amazed at how vastly different each of his childhood dreams were and he accomplished them all! His childhood dreams were being in zero gravity, playing in the National Football League, authoring an article in the World Book of Encyclopedia, being Captain Kirk, become one of the guys who won the big stuffed animals in the amusement park, and be an Imagineer with Disney.

 

I love how he started out saying “It’s important to have specific dreams.” I believe he was able to achieve so many of his childhood dreams because they were very specific. Another reason he was able to accomplish them is because he never gave up. There were several times he would hit ‘brick walls’ as he called them, and then he would come up with other ways around it or think outside of the box to go around or over that brick wall to accomplish his dream. One of the best lines of advice I felt he gave was “The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show us how badly we want something.” I loved his perseverance and the fact that he never gave up. That renewed my hope for accomplishing my dreams and goals that I have recently hit brick walls with.

 

I believe that dreaming is so important and key to our journey. I feel dreaming helps us learn our passions that are connected to our emotions to what makes us happy, brings us joy, and maybe even will develop hidden talents. I love dreaming big even when my current circumstances don’t seem possible for it. I have found that even when I dream and start pursuing a dream, it shows the Lord what I am interested in and willing to work for. It then create opportunities for doors to open to achieve that dream. I think working hard and fighting for our dreams is what makes it all worth it.

 

One of my childhood dreams growing up on a farm was to someday own land and have animals and live off my land like my parents and grandparents did. I always loved being able to care for and raise our own animals and grow our own garden, always knowing where our food was coming from. In today’s economy, I especially feel a need and strong desire to do just that so that my family and I can be self-reliant on our own homestead. I believe I will achieve this dream now that my husband is retired from the military, as he also has the same dream. Over the past year and a half we have been working towards this dream with brick wall after brick wall that we keep working to break down to make it happen. We know this is what we have been inspired to do and will continue to work to make it come true.