When we were little, we chased butterflies, frogs, snakes. It crawled, flew, or slithered, we chased it. When we grew up, we stopped chasing things that moved, and started chasing other things. For some, it is sex, or money; for others, it is the newest technological innovations. For some, it is love. For me, I grew up and started chasing dreams.
Growing up isn’t the easiest thing that people are faced with. Being an adult in today’s culture isn’t easy. So I honestly understand how people can forget to chase their dreams, or how they can get so caught up in chasing everything else that they forget to chase the things that they have thought about since they were little. Of course, paths change, and where we see ourselves in 10 years alters, but that doesn’t mean that people should stop chasing dreams, regardless how many times those dreams change.
I started my college career as a mathematics and finance major at a small private college. That was my dream. To go to college, get an education, and get an amazing job. A year later, I find myself at a large, public college studying economics and political science. This is now my dream. I dreamed that I would climb a corporate ladder in the financial industry somewhere, now I dream of climbing the political ladder, helping this country be as amazing as it can be. I chase my dreams.
Coming from a small town, I hear and see all the time how people would rather chase relationships than chase anything else. I can’t bring myself to do that. I can bring myself to spend endless and countless hours chasing something that may not be worth my time, or who may end up leaving in the short or long run. I can’t bring myself, a strong, independent woman, to chase a man over my dreams and aspirations.
To the women, and men, out there who are relationship chasers, I’m not degrading you. We each have our own paths and our own ways of life. As I always like to think, to each their own. If you honestly want to chase a relationship, then do it. But remember when you were little you always told your mother you wanted to be a doctor, or a teacher, or maybe even an astronaut? Remember how you used to have stickers and folders and notebooks that all said “Dare to Dream?” Remember how you used to picture yourself as a doctor or teacher, or mechanic, what have you? Don’t give up on those dreams and aspirations for love. Do you. Be you. Don’t forget your path.
We are the dreamers of dreams, a wise man once said. So now let us follow those dreams that we dream.
