The worst of the worst has happened. You didn't quite nail the job interview, you messed up your big speech, you flunked a test, you didn't make the final casting cut--and needless to say, you're feeling more upset than you expected to. After hours of practice, research, gathering your nerves--only to have everything slip from your grasp. You watched everything you worked for drip down the drain, and now you're down in the dumps.
Dreams, no matter how small they seem, are still dreams all the same--and it hurts when we can't always achieve those dreams, or fall just short of claiming the dream as our own for the taking. Our dreams make us who we are. They claim parts of our souls that most people on the outside can't even begin to understand. And with that dreams comes the cultivation of it--the tender care we put into it to get it to where it needs to be.
Unlike Cinderella, however; our dreams can't always be achieved overnight. We can't 'bibbity-bobbity-boo' our dreams into existence right before our eyes. We don't always get the pumpkin that turns into a carriage, the mice that become horses, or even the special dance with the prince before midnight. Some dreams just can't happen that quickly. Some dreams take a little more time, some patience. It's like baking--you can't take the cake out when it's still soupy in the middle. It hasn't had time to develop, to work and meld all the flavors and stabilize. You've got to wait. Enjoy the process of creating that 'cake'. Enjoy mixing the ingredients, listening to your favorite music while you tend to your project.
I say all of this to tell you that a good dream--one that is full of success and happiness and prosperity--can't happen in the blink of an eye. It takes time--more than just 5 minutes in the works with a little research here and giddiness there.
Many of the world's most famous people's dreams took years to come full circle. Morgan Freeman--one of the most amazing actors of this day and age--once said his acting didn't really take off until he was well into his 50's. Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Jane Lynch, Jessica Chastain--all of these people found there dream years along the way.
Dreams can not be achieved without taking a couple steps back, though. The road to grasping a dream isn't an easy one--and it isn't ever meant to be. If you want the dream, go for it--no matter how hard it is. Let that failed test push you, let the hurt that you feel when you don't find your name on a call board motivate you. Work harder. Keep going. Don't you dare give in--but dare to get better.
Good things will come to those who wait. Better things will come to those who work while they wait.
Put the late night hours in on your dreams--going over the same paper over and over and over again till every word is perfect. Keep going over the same combination in a dance until each kick is precise, elevated--effortless. Keep going over those problems on your math test until they make you sick--but you know the whole process front ways, sideways, backwards.
Let the fear of the possibility of an unachieved dream push you. Once you push yourself far enough away from the fear, freedom is not far away--and neither is your dream.
"No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, a dream that you wish will come true..."
