Did you ever see Field of Dreams? I just watched it again recently and how amazing is that movie?! I feel like it is a perfect example of our lives. First off, we may not all hear voices although to a degree they usually try and hospitalize you for that but we all have something we want to do. Something either we are doing, want to do, or forgot that we want to do it. Either way it is there but it is very frightening to go after it. Sometimes we get so used to continuing on day after day in a job that was never supposed to be a career just something to pay the bills until whatever it was you really wanted to do could pay the bills that now it is so routine our “Field of Dreams” gets long forgotten. On the other hand sometimes we went after our “Field of Dreams” for so long but it never panned out and the misery of never truly doing what we really wanted to do forces us into a routine of just paying bills. There is so many reasons to give up on your dreams or what you really want to do and take on the “make money to spend money” perspective. I am also not just talking about sports or music or acting, I am talking about anything. Dreams don’t have to be artsy or involve being famous. I am talking about doing whatever makes you lay down at night and think, I love my life!
No doubt if you have tried or are trying or want to try and live your dreams, you will start with an amazing feeling of excitement mixed with “nothing will go wrong” and it will last for a while, but at some point the reality sets in. I am not against the reality but it can be a huge buzz kill at some times. In the movie after he follows the voice or his metaphoric dream he lives for a while in the excitement of the new and then nothing happens. To me this was such a true part of the movie for me. I have tried time and again to live out my dream and after the excitement wears off and it feels like it is going nowhere, give up. It seems a lot of the time I have given up. Not necessarily because it was too hard, maybe more of the reason was because I thought it was not panning out. I thought it was the door shutting in my face. Maybe some of the time it was but everything is a chain reaction. Most of the time living out your dream is birthed out of what seems mundane and boring and sometimes just normal. It is all a road to get you to the point where your dreams are becoming a reality.
I don’t want to give away the movie if you haven’t seen it but go watch it, especially if you desire to live out your dreams and are in need of inspiration. There are always storms, there are always times of misunderstanding but don’t quit. Don’t give up. Most likely you are right on the verge of what you have wanted for a long time.
At least that is how it has been for me…
steven.
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