Dream On

Never once did anyone tell me I could not achieve. Never once did anyone tell me  I would not make it…so why the hesitation? Was it the deceiving negative remarks or dead energy around me? Or was it the fear of failing…? Today I am going to share a story with you, that a lot of people may be able to relate to, a story that is dear to my heart.

Once upon a time….there was an outgoing and bubbly girl named Veronica. At least that is who she thought she was. She was brought up to believe she had the power within her to make a change in the world around her. She was brought up to think that dreams do indeed come true.  One regular summer afternoon she and her best friend went to watch a movie called Monte Carlo featuring Selena Gomez, and that was when everything changed. A paradigm shift occurred in her thinking, it wasn’t like any other movie she had gone to see. Yeah she would connect with the character and pretend to act like them for the next two weeks or so but never had a movie made her reflect upon her own life.

The movie Monte Carlo was about a girl named Grace dreaming to leave her small town in Texas, fly to Paris, and find herself. Well that was the part that kind of stood out to Veronica the most. She was dying to find herself, she was dying to get out of her confinement and fly to freedom, to who she was. But in reality adolescence is the journey of finding out who you really are.  So technically it wasn’t possible, but Veronica was a dreamer. She dreamed of who she would become, personality wise and career wise. She came out of that theater believing that anything could happen if you worked hard for it. She always had a knack for the arts, especially performing arts. She wanted to be an actress, but the reaction to her dream wasn’t positive. It was negative feedback it was manipulative feedback. The type of feedback that sounds sweet but is a stab to your heart. She didn’t know if she should follow her dream but her parents were by side through it all. And one day……. she had an emotional breakdown. That is when she began to write her dreams down on sticky notes and she put them in her wish jar. Her dreams were a secret no one could judge but remained alive in her heart. Every night from then till today she writes her dreams, she spends a half an hour per day simply just letting her mind free from all the chaos around her. To be honest that was the best thing that she could have ever done, because she feels motivated to achieve every time she looks at her jar. She had adopted the jar idea from the internet and today the jar is full with 104 sticky notes. Today she has performed in various locations and is growing as an artist and a human being.

I would like to share with you something she wrote on one of her sticky notes:

I dream to wake up and go to set every morning, I dream to inspire others with my work. I dream to set up charities, I dream to make difference on screen and off screen. I dream to touch someones heart. 

The moral of that story is that dreaming is what keeps us alive …and no one and I repeat no one should stop us from living the dream. It didn’t stop Veronica, it shouldn’t stop you. Your dreams are worth it babe…let NO one bring you down!

Veronica’s name is fictional but her story is real. I guarantee it, because I have lived to play the role of Veronica, with no cameras or a spotlight, just passion and fervor streaming through my veins.

DREAM ON <3