Have Huge Dreams

 “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”

-Harriet Tubman

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You don’t know me. I don’t know you. However, there is one thing that connects us, one thing that connects all humans, and that’s passion. Some of us feel it burning freely inside of us and live it everyday. Some others have let that passion dwindle so that it is a smoldering ember living sadly beneath a list of mundane tasks and mindless work. Passion fuels dreams and feeds our soul, it nourishes our essence. For many years I have struggled with trying to rekindle that passion that I allowed to go dormant. It has always lived inside of me, just as it lives inside of each one of you, yet I sadly allowed my passions to be eclipsed by societal norms and traded that passion in for a steady paycheck and a 401k.

Nothing is more desperate than dreams unfulfilled and yet so many of us suppress those dreams and elect to travel the “safe” route. Well guess what? There is no safe route. We’re all going to die sooner or later and meeting that fate with dreams still left to dream is the saddest demise I could ever image.

My plea with myself is to live my dreams, to live every moment of everyday with passion and purpose. I don’t know exactly what that looks like yet, it is a work in progress, since somehow along the way, I stopped following my passions. My promise to myself, just days before my birthday, is to find my way, understanding there will be missteps along the journey, and to embrace each of these missteps as an opportunity to learn and grow but to always fan the flame that lives deep inside of me and to let that passion manifest into things greater than myself.

It is a journey into the unknown. A beautiful, terrifying, exhilarating journey. A journey into what it means to truly be alive and to push all boundaries and speak deeply and passionately from my heart and soul. Will you join me on this journey?