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This week: Onward, Ever Onward! Edited by: Fyn  
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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. ~~Pope John XXIII
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. ~~Oprah Winfrey
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. ~~Anais Nin
I would like to say every moment counts for you, so make the time that you spend for your dreams a very special moment, make sure that you do something that you'll be happy with when you go back and look at yourself. ~~Jennie
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As I was approaching seventy, my kids wanted me to write out the adventures I'd had, and I have had quite a number of them. Most taught me something or another and I'd use the stories to impart some of what I learned to my kids. Good stuff and stupid stuff. Both brilliant and ridiculously dumb maneuvers. And yet, they all seemed to teach me something valuable. I'd been working on it for something like twenty years, but not earnestly. I was, quite frankly, afraid to. Write a memoir and drop in your track - a real (if silly) fear. Then my wise son said, "Mom, it is only the first volume!" Oh. Okay. And I wrote away and accomplished that dream.
I'd been a writer always. The dream of becoming published for a book happened in the mid-eighties. Then not again until after 2012. Then, several books in fairly rapid succession. I worked hard. In the thinking, the writing, the doing, the revisions, and the editing. WDC was instrumental in fostering not only the desire, but the impetus to Do it!
As a child, I was brought up to believe in the white knight in shiny armor mounted on a white steed riding in to carry me off to 'happily ever after.' That didn't happen. I tried. I failed. Poor choices on my part. That and the thinking it would all just 'happen.' I didn't understand that marriage was hard work. Three times I tried. And yet, I didn't give up on the dream. Then one night in a bar, a cowboy walked up to me with his hand out and asked me to dance. That was almost twenty years ago now. Is he my white knight? Well, yes. True, his armor is dented and rusty, but it and he are pure gold.
It is difficult to read posts about people who have yet to achieve long-standing dreams. Recently, several have been actually successful in what they do, in the people they are, and the children they've raised. It is a shame they don't see how far they've come in their reaching for the shiny gold bell.
Success isn't an endpoint. It is a perspective. As long as one continues to strive to reach a new level, one is accomplishing things! This is goodness! Okay, so you haven't won a Pulitzer (yet!) or won an Oscar or been able to classify yourself as a millionaire! That is okay. Honestly, there are way more important things in this life than those!
Dreams keep us going: Both the big and the little dreams. Every day is a step in the right direction. We can never know exactly what tomorrow will bring us. But keep on keeping on!
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