Wherein I start with who I am.
I am a 45-year-old woman who has seen 3 of her dreams come true: to have worked in the movie industry, which I did for 15 years; to have met the man I love and to still be with him 15 years later; and to have 2 beautiful sons.
Now it never occurred to me when I was a kid that I would get to have even one dream come true, much less so many by now.
But what I now know is that I have dreams as yet unrealized. I don’t even know what some of them are yet – I only know I have to move forward and towards them.
One dream I’m working on is being a writer. I know that it is completely within my control to achieve this dream: If I sit my butt down in front of this computer and type, then I have a chance; if not, I don’t.
Another dream I have is to be able to give away large sums of money. I mean BIG. This dream will take even more work on my part, and the confluence of many beautiful coincidences and strokes of luck. It’s out there for me, I know it.
I don’t think I ever had a dream to be a blonde. In fact, I was quite happy being a brunette for about 44 years. But suddenly, here I am, a highlighted, striped-headed, bottle blonde lady of 45, and when I look in the mirror I think: Finally, the real me.
Now that’s a dream come true.
An original post by Sarah Auerswald.
Welcome to typepad and the blogosphere and the series of tubes we call the internest. Okay okay, you were here before, but now you are SERIOUS!
Can’t wait to read more! When will you add some color? Or are you going for uber minimal and I’m an idiot?
xoxo
You are not an idiot! I was going for a sleek look, but I don’t want it blank. Can you come over and help me spiff it up?
And thanks for the encouragement and inspiration!
I would love to come over, but it will have to be next week….let’s make a date!
I feel like I’m eavesdropping…
(Go, Sarah!)
I am so glad I found your blog! How very cool. I have had fun chatting with people from Seabury on FaceBook, which is how I connected with Nini, which is how I found you! I’m bookmarking your blog, and here is mine:
http://www.sbott.blogspot.com
I love this post about dreams–I will have to really think on this one. I dreamt of being a writer, which I do, and of being an astronaut (which I don’t), and moving out of Kihei (which I did). Hmm. That’s a good question.