In the spirit of dreaming, I dug through my Internet archives to find this, a list of eight dreams/goals for my future. I wrote them in May 2005.
8. Speak at a seminar (about what I have no idea . . . but I figured one lofty goal wouldn’t hurt)*
7. Marry and have kids (or adopt/ get involved in some kind of foster care)
6. Own my own home
5. Visit New England . . and Venice, Italy (how could we have missed that city??)
4. Earn a master’s degree
3. Find a job writing professionally
2. Write something truly inspiring**
1. Make a positive difference (ambiguous, I know)**
I’ve crossed out the things I’ve done. *I’m the guest speaker for a class next month, which I think counts. **the thing with vague goals is that it’s hard to know when you’ve accomplished them. I did publish a personal essay I really believed in, and it was inspiring to me. As far as a positive difference, I try.
I love that I once let myself dream of things I fully believed could happen, and I love that some of them already have happened–just three years later.
Next on the agenda: what else do I dream of?
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