Daily Mood Quote
Day 38 – June 11, 2011
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
~Joyce A. Myers
Except these days, the #2 pencil has been replaced by a keyboard. I am a dreamer, a realist and all around practical person. But, the hope of my dreams coming true keeps me from giving up. You see I love to write, I have been writing since I was nine years old and dreaming about becoming a writer for many decades. However, in the pursuit of that dream, life must be lived and sometimes those dreams can be and occasionally are, replaced by better dreams, or at least more attainable ones. I'm not completely certain about that. But, what I do know is that I have spent a lifetime changing a negative perspective into a positive one. Julia Roberts (who played Vivian) in the movie Pretty Woman with Richard Gere (Edward) said it best, “The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?”
Marcus Aurelius and Napoleon Hill agree, what you think about your life is what your life becomes. Unfortunately, that thinking, if a product of a negative upbringing, can be difficult, but not impossible to overcome. It takes work, a lot of hard work. Much of that work is internal and it is on attitude. I understand, because my entire life has been about dumping a negative attitude and replacing it with the positive, by developing understanding, education and love. Nothing is impossible if we set our minds to it and sharpen our mental #2 pencils.
As I look back on my life, I realized I could have been writing all along. Instead I allowed people within my sphere of awareness to influence and alter my true trajectory of life. Everyone has “the dreams of their heart”, what they truly were meant to be in life. Regrettably, we all to often let others attitudes over ride our hearts. I am no different, others have changed the course of my life with their opinions and it has taken many years, actually decades to get back on track. As the narrator in Pretty Woman says at the end of the movie, “What's your dream?”
What “dream” of yours will you rediscover today?
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