Don't stop

I used to scrapbook. I made collages using photos from events, celebrating my achievements, like my graduation collage. I also made collages about the future, centered around my dreams for the future, like my "home" collage which has an armateur's plan of the mansion I'd like to live in one day. I remembered my scrapbook today because of a "goals" collage I have in it. I remembered it because I took a step towards one of those goals recently. I then dug it up and went through it, intrigued by the futuristic ones.

I was bothered by the fact that I haven't added anything to my  scrapbook in almost three years. This means I'm not dreaming, right? Well not really. I'm that type of person who can't go on to something else having not completed what I was busy with. So I felt it would be dumb to keep adding goals while still having not achieved the already existing ones. But I'm starting to think life works differently.

That goal I was talking about was my dream of marrying people (sounds funny putting it like that...I mean people getting married through me, not me getting married to people; sure I'd like to get married to someone but definitely not to alot of people, lol). So I started investigating how one goes about being a marriage officer. I thought it would be simple and quick, as I thought with every other goal I have up there; NOT! I went to my local Home Affairs department office to find out what I needed to do. The old man there gave me a postal address to the head office, saying I should write a letter stating that I wanted to be a marriage officer. He said they would then send me books to study, I'd write a test and I'd be off marrying people. Simple right? What he didn't tell me (and I doubt he knew or cared to remember) was that my church had to write a letter as well. I only found out about four months later after harassing the head office for not responding to my letter. Only then did we know that the church had to write a letter and so it did. It took them another four months to respond to that letter. I then wrote my test, which I'm confident I aced, and have been waiting for a response since (I'm in the second month now).

No, this is not a complaint letter about how slow the Home Affairs Department is, I'm trying to make a point about this goals business. It was last year when I started working on this goal and it's still in progress (I hope) and it's timing is really nothing I have control over. This means my whole world shouldn't stop while I'm waiting for one dream to realize, I should be working on another in the meanwhile.

Realizing this, I started writing another novel. I still haven't had my first one published, but I know now that that shouldn't stop me. I haven't knocked on the right door yet, or it's just not my time yet, but whatever it is, I won't stop writing. I'll act like a Joseph who didn't stop dreaming and dealing with dreams until his time to see his dream realized came, and when it did, it found him ready and skilled because he didn't stop. I hear Van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime but that didn't stop him from painting. Today his paintings sell for large amounts because he didn't stop.

So don't stop. Don't stop dreaming, don't stop pursuing your dreams, don't stop doing what you're good at. Don't let time get you down, don't let people's responses get you down. You can get tired, you can cry about it too, just don't stop.

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