The Impossible Dream?
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau
I guess everyone who knows me knows that my mother returned to college when she was 62 years young. She entered a well known university with the dream of earning her master’s degree in a very challenging professional field. Her family supported her but all others questioned her: Why? And then, Why now? Why not relax and rest at your age? How could you expect to compete with masters’ degree candidates less than half your age? Candidates already well known in the field and in their respective countries?
She told everyone who asked the same thing: “Well, I have a choice. In one year, if I’m still alive, I can be alive with or without a Masters degree. I want to be alive with one.”
She graduated with ample proof of her talent while at least a half dozen of her much younger fellow students fell by the wayside.
Centuries ago, a slave named Epectitus created the Stoic philosophy which lives on today. Helen Keller, a woman born with no sight and no hearing became the first deaf blind American to earn a college degree and to bring us insights we never had before her life. Dr. Benjamin Carson, a neurosurgeon famed for separating co-joined infants, came from poverty; he was born to a teenaged mother.
Another dreamer?
Meditation for the Day
“You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say “Why not?” George Bernard Shaw
Acton for the Day
Today, I will consider this. Success is only a dream with a plan. And all to-do lists are plans. So . . . why not me?
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wow fun story man.