Perseverance and Dreams

Perseverance. A challenge all its own. As if it weren’t hard enough to figure out what you want to do with your life, once you have, roadblocks have a way of popping up to obstruct your path. If it really is true we only appreciate what we have to work for, and value less the things that come too easily, then I suppose whatever hurdles we have to overcome are a good thing. Maybe. I’m not always so sure. For some of the greatest things in our lives are things that just seem to happen, wonderful blessings that come our way, which we had nothing to do with.

Roadblock SignSo why is it that just when you think things are running along smoothly…you think you know what’s coming next…roadblock! Monkey wrench thrown into your plans. As for work/career/life balance issues, things have a way of coming along that test or challenge our conviction and dedication to whatever we’re pursuing. And maybe that’s where the ‘good thing’ actually is. That good point of facing those hurdles. For if we were not repeatedly confronted with challenges, maybe we’d merrily follow a path that wasn’t really the best for us.

No big difficulty can mean no need to re-evaluate or consider other options. Maintaining the status quo can be easy, sometimes too easy. It’s only when life throws us a curve that we are forced to ask ourselves if we really want to keep going straight in whatever direction we’re heading. Makes life sound like one big long test. Death is some graduation present isn’t it?

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And so in us can live fond memories of former dreams alongside hope for the new ones. As for those we’ve let go of, they can still remain in our hearts, part of our life, if not our future. As Robert Kincaid in The Bridges of Madison County, Clint Eastwood says, “The old dreams I had were good dreams, they didn’t work out, but I’m glad I had them.”

Like spring cleaning, sometimes the hardest part is deciding what to keep and what to give away. So we ask ourselves the hard questions, and ignore the hard answers some may give. For perhaps to live a dream, to realize it, there has to be a certain amount of ‘ostrich head in the sand.’ Only you know from where the dream comes, know how strong it is, how right it feels, and have the vision to see it through. Detractors don’t know your heart. Don’t know you won’t give up. Don’t know you’re here for that dream.

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