by Christine Kerrigan

Created on: April 16, 2008   Last Updated: July 28, 2008

Times Are Hard For Dreamers

This is a phrase that stuck with me throughout my childhood and my teenage years. Looking back I miss the youthful innocence that allowed us to believe that anything we wanted could be ours, that nothing was out of our reach, but most importantly that nothing could stand in our way, nothing could stop us. Unfortunately as we grow the falsies of our dreams begin to show themselves to us in plain view and many dreams become abandoned and left behind on our long journey through adulthood. A journey that many of us have become miserable and unhappy with. When you were young who envisioned their future to be filled with bills, deadlines, and a long commute to a job you hate. It took me several years of struggling to get by and battling the bills that were piling up before a realization hit me that changed my life forever. The true meaning of the phrase.

Yes, times are hard for dreamers but dreamers are happy. Dreamers pursue what they really want to be doing. Most importantly, dreamers do not let something other than themselves dictate what they do, how they feel, and the lifestyle that they are leading. Dreamers do what they want to do, dreamers still have hope in this world that we live in. Soon after this revelation I picked up my pen again and began writing. I kept telling myself for years that my dream of being a writer was just my youthfulness getting the better of me. That no one actually follows through on their childhood dreams. That they are fiction and should be left in the past. The road to adulthood is part abandoning your dreams and part finding the world that suits you best.

Now I realize that the childhood dreams you hold are what should still be driving you every day. They are not just dreams and they are not just your childhood innocence allowing you to believe you can be something that you are not. Childhood dreams are what we always knew we could be until society and everything else told us we couldn't. Hold onto your childhood dreams and reinvent them. Tweak them to fit your life now and most importantly pursue them. They are not out of reach; they are completely attainable all we have to do is try.

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