I believe everybody has a dream. I’m not talking about the
dreams we have when we are sleeping. I’m talking about the dreams we have when
we are awake.
I’ve had lots of dreams since I was a child. Some of those
dreams happened for me. Most did not. Many of them changed as the years went
by. Also, I’ve never met a person who only ever had one dream. Dreams are a
dime a dozen, but dreams mean more to you than they ever will to anyone else.
Does that mean when you get old enough, it is time to set aside
your dreams? I think not. Perhaps you think, as a grown-up, that having a dream
is unrealistic. Maybe you’ve got a full-time job that does not leave you with
enough time for a dream. Maybe you have a family and all the obligations there
just don’t leave time for a dream. I know about this. It happened to me. If it
happened to me, I’m betting it’s happened to you, too.
So, what’s to do about it?
Dream away. Having dreams is where a future is to be found. Your dream is not going to be magically handed
to you on a silver platter. You’ve got to do something to make it possible.
Okay, let’s take one of my dreams. I dreamed for years of
being a writer. I thought that someday I would write something. I would write a
book. I told people this dream of mine until, one day, I realized I must be
boring people. I’d been saying it for years. I’d actually run out of people to
tell. I had a horror of boring people. I was also shy, so if I didn’t tell them
I had a dream, what was I going to do? Talk about the weather? No.
I would write.
It happened when I was again looking for work, and once
again I found a job in an office. I’d had so many jobs like that. I could see
my life passing before my eyes as a secretary in a job. Not a career. In another
job. Doing things for other people. I vowed that day to begin writing. As it
happened, three years later, I finished writing a novel. That it has been under
the bed all these years, unpublished, is not a loss. Writing that book proved
to me that I was a writer. It began the dream.
Am I a famous writer? No. Am I a good writer? Sometimes. Am
I ever going to make a living at writing? The jury is out on that one. Why do I
continue? Because it is all my dream.
Dreams are hope springing up. Demanding a place. I will do
this.
Think of your dream as a target. The outermost ring is you
having the dream. It is an ethereal energy, a substance that is not yet formed.
It is a dream.
The next ring in is where you begin to give the dream
substance. This is where, if you are a writer, you begin a daily practice of
writing. This is the ring where you read more than you already do. This is the
ring where you find other writers and read their work, where you commiserate
with each other, and where you share experiences. This is your “right company”.
The next ring is where you challenge yourself to write one
article each week for a publication. If it is your own place on Substack,
Medium, or even Facebook, it is where you publish your writing. To do this, you
confront all sorts of demons you have about writing. Your fear. Your sense of
inadequacy. Where you learn to brave criticism and comments. This is you
showing up.
However many rings you need to go through to hit the middle
of the target is up to you. Some people will earn accolades and awards and become
best-selling authors the first time they write something. It happens, but it
happens so rarely that you should discount it out of hand.
What you have is different. You have perseverance. You have
determination. You will not let go of your dream.
As time goes on, you continue to write. As you set up
challenges for yourself, you will learn how to be a writer.
Until one day, you are on the target. You have hit the
middle, the bulls-eye. You are the person people turn to when they need help
with whatever it is that you are an expert in.
As a writer, I, more than anyone else, am the most important
person to believe in me. Do yourself a favor and believe in yourself.
Thanks for reading. If you’d like, check out some of the
other places I write below.
🌺 Pauline
Evanosky
🌺My Links:
Talking To Spirit — my website since
2001
Pauline Evanosky on Medium
Talking To Spirit on Substack
Pauline Evanosky — my author’s website
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