As a child, did you have a dream about the future?
As a child, you were probably asked this question by a wide variety of people. Parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, teachers, clerks at the grocery store…perfect strangers felt the liberty to ask you what you wanted to be when you grew up. You probably asked this question of yourself. And depending on the circumstances and age you were asked, your answer probably changed.
Over the course of the years, here’s how I would have answered that question:
Age
1-8: a veterinarian
9 -12: help people and make them laugh
13-15: no idea, but I’m going to go to college
15-17: future…is there a future?
18-20: future? I just want to get through college
21-25: heck if I know, I’m just trying to pay my bills
26-30: not be miserable
31-35: anything but what I’m doing now
36-38: help people
39-Now: help people and make them laugh
It’s interesting that over the course of the years, our focus tends to be less on the dreams of the future and more on the realities of what’s happening “now”.
“Now” has a particular power, because we are living it. We can see it, touch it, and feel it. It has a power because we are experiencing “now” on a daily basis. “Now” has a way of taking our attention off of our dreams. As the focus shifts from our dreams to what is happening in our daily lives, our dreams begin to lose their brilliance.
What would happen if you stopped focusing on now and started finding your dreams again?
Let go and see!
Deidre Hughey