Did you ever dream about becoming an astronaut or being a professional baseball player? I remember going outside throwing the baseball at the side of the house to work on my glove skills and begging my mom to take me to the batting cage to improve batting. Then one day I stopped dreaming of being that baseball player and dreamed of another dream. I guess the nice thing about being a child, the world is still conquerable.
This last week I was able to listen and read an article about Randy Pausch. He gave a great lecture about going after your childhood dreams. He wanted to pursue a few things like doing zero gravity, be an imagineer, win a big stuff animal, and many more. He went on to tell how he went about achieving these dreams. He first mentioned his mother gave him the moral encouragement and also his mentors. These people were giving him the strength when he felt like quitting. He goes on to say, "Are you a Tigger or an Eeyore?" We need to decide in our lives what kind attitude we want to have. If we choose to be the "Tigger" we will see the success we want because we have fun doing it. Then he goes onto loyalty. Loyalty is a two-way street, we must be willing and ready to defend and protect. As we create this loyalty we will create friends that will help us down some of these hard road. Another subject he talks about is the "Never give up" attitude. If we keep our dreams close to us and say to ourselves on a regular basis never give up, the person you only have to prove in this life is ourselves and at the day we leave this mortal husk we will ask ourselves, "Did I do everything I could do...?" When we never give up then we will never have to ask ourselves this.
Marty Sklar (Disney Imagineer 50+ years) wrote in one of his books "Dream it Do it". This man is in his 70s and he is still dreaming. If a man of that age is dreaming, I feel very strongly that we should always dream. I believe when we stop dreaming, the world will stop turning. I am always telling my kids to never stop dreaming. If want to be the astronaut then do it, don't let anyone say you can't. Then I ask them, "Why do you think people will crush those dreams?", the would answer, "no idea", I would proceed to tell them those people can't dream or they themselves are scared to live their dreams and want to make people sad like them. If we do stop dreaming we will never know if we can harness the power of the sun in cold fusion, or seeing flying cars in real use. The best dream is the one that is being lived and being improved upon. We should never stop dreaming, if we do then all those men and women who came before us will be crying in Heaven because they will feel their work is for not.
I had dreams of being professional baseball player, then I realize I was not very good at it. I was ok when I realize that, because my next dream came into my life and I still dream about it. I know I cannot live that dream at this moment because of my obligation. My dream is to work at Disneyworld as a tour guide. It sounds dumb and childish, but think about getting paid to take people around where both parents and child are really happy and the proceed to tell of a marvelous story of a man who wanted to create an "Utopia" of sorts. I love history and Disney and being a tour guide would be great. The reason I cannot go after that dream at this time is because it doesn't pay well to support a family of 4 and be able to afford the comforts I like. When I retire from this job, I told my wife I would like to work at Disney World. She agreed, and their is my promise to myself.
If you feel like stop dream, don't. If we can't find it, hang out with a kid for a day or two. We need to always dare to dream the impossible. I will use Walt Disney - "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them". Do we have the courage to pursue our dream?
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