Follow your dreams.
Do what you love.
Step out of the comfort zone.
Take the plunge.
This is the type of stuff that this current generation is told, practically on a daily basis.
The problem is that we haven’t been trained to wait; there isn’t a strong capacity to endure and stick it out until there’s breakthrough.
And it’s not like I don’t know what it feels like.
I have my own dreams as well. I want to build at least one successful business. I know that I have a full time call on my life and that at some point, I will pursue this vocation fully. There are so many things I want to learn and improve in – how to code, playing the guitar, all sorts of sports.
Even though I haven’t fulfilled my dreams, I’ve not sat back and done nothing. I’ve put my heart and soul into building a business, but part-time, because it’s completely bootstrapped and has to generate its own revenue and cash to sustain operations without capital injection. It’s slowly building but the breakthrough hasn’t fully come yet although I know deep inside that it will.
I’m as involved in church ministry as I can stretch myself and no, this is not a given for the spouse of a minister. I’ve seen plenty of spouses step back especially when the kids come and it is a choice and sacrifice to continue to keep the hands to the plow day in, day out.
Although I have no clue on how to code, I’ve registered an account at codeacademy.com and will start trying it out soon. I play the guitar when I do my devotions and for cell group when I can, and I try to plan in exercise in my weekly routine.
But I haven’t gone out and really taken the plunge in any of them simply because, I can’t. I’m responsible to take care of my family and it would be impossible right now to prioritise my dreams.
It doesn’t mean that I’ll never achieve them – I’ll definitely do what I can to fulfil them although maybe not to the level that I would have originally wanted to. At the same time, it means that I can build new dreams, and see them come to pass in the lives of my family instead of myself. It’s a worthwhile trade-off, a thousand times over.
And I believe I will feel the same way when my daughter grows up and fulfils her dreams. But I think I’ll settle for if looks back on her childhood and realises that she grew up happy.
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