Everyone has a dream.
Some people want to start up their own business or perform on Broadway. Others simply want to have enough money for that apartment they've had their eye on for a while. No matter how big or small, how short or long term, we all have a dream that drives us forward. Dreams keep us going. Dreams make us human.
And yet, so many of us don't realize that our dreams won't come true on their own. We go about our daily lives waiting for chances to grab us by the hand and pull us into a whirlwind of opportunity. We wake up, we eat, we sleep, and we repeat the monotonous cycle over and over in hopes that it'll end on its own accord once the universe wills it so. The reality is, the universe isn't this cosmic force that intervenes in our lives whenever it pleases. The universe is just the world we inhabit, and we're the ones who control what happens next. We're the ones who must make the decision to chase after the dream that's been nagging at us for as long as we can remember.
I've always been something of a dreamer. For most of my life, I've comforted myself in hard times with the idea that my dreams would someday come true. I'd tell myself that even if things were rough now, someday I'd finally be living the life I have always wanted to lead. Only recently did it occur to me that this hypothetical "someday" doesn't have to be so far away. It can start whenever I'm ready to make it happen.
I want to make a cartoon someday. That's my dream. I want to bring smiles to people's faces through writing and animation and music and the pure, unadulterated passion of the cartoons I grew up with that exude thanks to the hard work of their respective creators. I used to feel as if that dream was something I had to put on the back-burner and save for later when the time was right. To be honest, the time will never be right. It's easy to find excuses to put off that terrifying dive into the unknown, so why not take a deep breath and go for it? Write that first draft, sing that first note, take that first step.
You are the only one with the power to make your dream come true, so stop waiting and make it happen.
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