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My dreams are simple. I want to retire when I decide to retire. And I want one more love that will last my lifetime. The rest is just stuff and so long as I’m having fun, it’s all good. I am not a big goal-setter; I just roll with the punches and if I want to do something I do it. I’m not ambitious because I’m content. I used to have goals…college, good job, marriage… and I did all that. Now I aim for things like, “re-landscape the hill behind my shed.” But I kinda feel like we’re all ‘supposed’ to have a Big dream. I could visit every National Park in America; I could start a business; I could take up the violin at age 60 and earn my debut at Carnegie Hall by age 75. I don’t know… I don’t think I want any of those things bad enough, even though they are good ideas.
In the same way that I can’t think of new dreams, I don’t really recall abandoning any either. My Dad had a dream to run in the Boston Marathon, but it went unfulfilled because of an injury that basically ended his running days. I believe that was a great disappointment for him. He didn’t give it up by choice, but life took a turn that made it impossible. I had a goal to run a 5K, and I’ve since run many. But I never felt the desire to ratchet it up, like so many runners do, to a 10K or beyond.
French novelist Anais Nin said, “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.” I am the kite itself – just flying around and letting life bring stuff to me or seeing where I land. It's a windy day and I'm free of commitments so there is no telling what today will include.
In the same way that I can’t think of new dreams, I don’t really recall abandoning any either. My Dad had a dream to run in the Boston Marathon, but it went unfulfilled because of an injury that basically ended his running days. I believe that was a great disappointment for him. He didn’t give it up by choice, but life took a turn that made it impossible. I had a goal to run a 5K, and I’ve since run many. But I never felt the desire to ratchet it up, like so many runners do, to a 10K or beyond.
French novelist Anais Nin said, “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.” I am the kite itself – just flying around and letting life bring stuff to me or seeing where I land. It's a windy day and I'm free of commitments so there is no telling what today will include.