"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
John Barrymore
At lunch last week, a friend said, this year my goal is to gain a little weight, see if I can be a little more lazy and a little less productive. I'm a little tired of setting the same goals EVERY year, because I just don't seem to be getting it done. After reading a beautifully inspirational post by a Jessica Albrecht on her blog, Is Forever Enough, I decided that I would set a goal that I haven't ever set before--blogging. I created this blog last April, and with a grand total of one post all year, I'm confident that I can succsfully improve on that!!
After a week of regrets about a situation that I handled badly, mostly due to inexperience, but badly nontheless, I'm feeling the need to work on my dreams more. Not so much dreams like they talked about when I went to Mary Kay meetings--big houses, fancy cars, amazing vacations--but dreams about who I was supposed to be, who I think I really am. Little things that I want to define me, and things that I want to no longer define me.
A new friend said to me, "so you're a writer?' I had to laugh because I haven't written much more than a grocery list and a facebook post in a really long time. But she got on her "passion soapbox" and really lectured me about how what we are doing right now doesn't necessarily define who or what we are. It really caused me to think and to remember that maybe, deep down, that's what I've dreamed of being, who I really am. So this year I'm going to write. I'll still have to write grocery lists, and I enjoy posting on facebook, but I'm excited to add blogging and journaling and maybe some essays on the things running around in my head all the time.
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