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Action Takes Precedence Over Words
What do you want to do when you grow up?
This question haunts some of us well into our sixties, for we still have yet to figure out what we want to do. Or maybe, we know what we want to do but never looked into actually pursuing it, because it seemed too difficult a goal to achieve. Or maybe it took too much time. Too much effort. Too much research. Too much patience. Yet while we waste away day by day, NOT following or cultivating our dreams, we tell people we want to do something else, be something else, have something else.
I would be rich — by my standards — if I collected five dollars every time someone told me they wanted to do something but made no steps toward this within even one year’s time. How sad is that?!
One of my best friends has always dreamed of being an author and illustrator (and still he says this is his ideal career path), but he works at an office job with people who appreciate him not. And has he even started a book? Sadly, no… not yet, is what he mumbles when I too often ask him. He is the most brilliant man I know and could have been a surgeon had he so desired. He also could have been a famous cartoonist. Or a comedian. Definitely an engineer. And probably a lawyer. But his problem was not for lack of dreaming: he dreamed many a day and told me about his passions. What he lacked was action. He told me…
