To “FOLLOW your DREAMS”

My bookmark says, “FOLLOW your DREAMS”.  Good advice.  FOLLOW your DREAMS.  I see this every day when I open and close the book I am reading.  It slaps me in the face every … single … time.  FOLLOW your DREAMS

But, what are my dreams?  I think that I know.  Maybe I don’t.  More accurately, maybe I’m afraid to fully dream my dream because I don’t want to be hurt, disappointed, ashamed, or anything else that can happen.  I always say that I’m like an ostrich – I just stick my head in the sand and ignore the problems that I can.  I do know that things have to change because, as the saying goes, if you keep doing the same thing, you are going to get the same thing.

Thankfully, my husband and I have the same dream.  And, I believe deep in my soul that if you drastically shake things up, that disrupts the path that you are on and things start to change.  So, hubby and I decided to take a drastic step to shake things up.  You see, he has been living in a different state in order to provide for us (me and our youngest child) while we moved to a better climate with a much lower cost of living (just two of the very valid reasons for moving away from him, family, and friends).  We see hubby for a week or so once a month.  It was supposed to last a year or two.  That was 3 1/2 years ago.  It was time for us to “FOLLOW your DREAMS”.  We tried the traditional way and worked hard at it but it wasn’t getting us any closer to our dream.  I (finally) took my head out of the sand and we took a major step to change our future for the better.  It will get worse for a while, but I know that I can make it through with the knowledge that it will be better after it gets worse.  Most of the time it is not easy to FOLLOW your DREAMS.  This is not easy.

We are at the beginning of the process and have disrupted the path that we were on.  Now we have to wait . . . I’m learning to have even more patience than I had before.  I thought that I had that down – NOT!  I will stick it out, though, because I want to listen to that advice that kept screaming at me – FOLLOW your DREAMS!