“If an idea, I reasoned, were really a valuable one, there must
be some way of realising it.” – Elizabeth Blackwell
These words were
written by the first woman who earned a medical degree. They’re useful to anyone who fears that their
most precious dreams are doomed to failure.
If our dreams are
valuable ideas, they will be useful goals.
If they’re childish fantasies, they won’t, although they may be
fun. It’s important to distinguish the
ones we can achieve from and the ones we can’t.
The first kind will nourish us, like bread; the others, like sweets, won’t.
We have a
responsibility to those nourishing dreams because they come from what’s best in
us. Our responsibility is to live so
that the dream might be realised. When
dreams become goals, they have a way of calling us forth. Goals organise our lives, so that we may
reach them.
Reaching my goal is never as important as the progress I made
towards it.
©Ange Foster
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