keep dreaming
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Ever since I was a child, I DREAMED of working in NYC
When I was accepted at MIT, I knew I was getting closer and closer to a BIG city job
and I was SOOOO happy
When I didn’t understand gyroscopes…
And had to stay up doing problem sets…
I would take a break, sit out in the courtyard, and gaze out at the
Prudential…
“I will end up at the TOP of that someday,” I thought
I landed an internship at a big firm in NYC
And it was…. COMPETITIVE
There was the SCARY BOSS, the TERRIBLE HOURS,
And the standard corporate bureaucracy
After all, this was my DREAM
When I got the offer to come back full-time, I still signed it
the Prudential became surprisingly SMALL
But when I got back on campus,
suffocatingly LARGE
And New York had become
I realized that as a CHILD, they had taught me to DREAM
But I had defined my dream as a tangible OBJECT
So that once I had jumped over the Prudential
and landed in NYC
I had NOTHING after that
Having left MIT and Boston behind, I realized that I was just one more dinosaur following behind a
line of many
And that, as they always say
Life really is an un-ending stream of moving goal posts
But I thought to myself, “It is DANGEROUS to settle”
I don’t want to wake up when I’m older wishing that I had run after my dreams just a
LITTLE BIT harder
Perhaps the secret is not to define my DREAMS as objects, but rather as PRINCIPLES that guide
my decisions
Instead of thinking, “I want to be a ballerina”
I should dream that I can influence people’s lives with my work
Instead of wanting to be on TOP
I should focus on doing what I LOVE
After all, once you reach the TOP
There is always someone right there to meet you, so the top that you pictured in your mind really
doesn’t exist
That doesn’t mean that I stop DREAMING
It just means that I live loving the PRESENT, while working towards the FUTURE
After all, my DREAMS are an extension of my personality
And if that’s true, what would I be without them?
So I’m going to keep DREAMING
As time passes, I CHANGE
And so do my DREAMS
Yes, I’m a girl, but how else do I show an aging dinosaur?
But the PRINCIPLES and AMBITIONS that have guided my life won’t change
So I’ll keep DREAMING
And I hope you’ll keep DREAMING too
Thanks for reading
Willow’s Wednesday Musings
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