On Dreams.

"To be, or not to be?"

Bill Shakesphere's cliched line has stood the tests of time and found a place in my thoughts. I just had dinner with two of my good friends and I can never help but to leave a meeting with them inspired in some new way. In a way that makes me begin pondering my life in order to find out exactly who it is that I am.

I think the effect that Mr. Shakesphere was trying to create can be translated more literally into this: "Do we dream and act, or do we just dream?" I want all of you to consider this question. I believe that we all have the ability to live up to our own dreams and I believe that nothing is unattainable as long as we persue what it is that we wish to hold.

Walt Disney, probably THE most recognized and respected dreamer in the world today, coined the phrase, "All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." If you know anything about Mr. Disney, that quote is the synopsis of his life, with no doubt. I believe that he is the definition of a dream come true; a man starting a small motion picture business out of absolute poverty and rising to become more well known than Uncle Sam himself. He was a man of true courage and a man of pure ambition that never found himself down and out. He stood up to the hindrances that threatened to end his dream, rather than finding a way around them. Is that not a true dreamer?

"To be, or not to be?"

Statistics show that about 1 in every 150 people are working the job that they wished for as a kid, meaning that 149 people were too afraid to risk it all in the persuit of their dream. This statistic upsets and disturbs me because this shows the conforming nature of mankind. We as human beings are taught in this day and age that we should reach for the realistic, for the job or career that we know that we can get. I was told today what it is that I should be by quite a smart man, but why should I conform to what a mere man believes I should be? Why should I follow the path that someone else sets for me? I am here to say that I will not conform to the belief of man, for I set a higher goal for myself: I set a DREAM.

I am a dreamer and you are a dreamer. We all dream and we all wish for the things that man tells us are impossible, but we cannot trust man. Trust your love. Trust your passion and your pride and your ambition. Trust God. Set a path and don't fear where it takes you. If your dream is at the end, keep pushing ahead until you get there. Is it not more satisfying to achieve a dream that comes from blood and sweat than to be handed one on a silver platter? If we were to be handed our dreams on on a silver platter, we would all be kings. God gave us dreams for the fulfillment of mankind, so that we may learn to turn to Him when things seem too tough for us to accomplish.

I encourage all to search your heart and mind and soul and find your true dream and begin right now working for it. All is attainable and all that is attainable is waiting. It is waiting for us to begin the journey of our lifetime: the journey of our true dream. I pray that all of you will realize your true dream and act on it as if tomorrow is never going to appear. Find your dream and do not burry it, but invest it into the lives of all who see you and let your dream be an inspiration to all of mankind.

"To be, or not to be?"

Thank you,
Will Watson