Thursday, September 7, 2006

So last night I was talking with someone I used to be friends with. And we were discussing life dreams and what you want to get out of life. What do you want your life to accomplish? What are your life goals? Now today I have pondered those questions. Honestly, you want my honest answer??

-I don't know-

Well it's not that I don't know, I would say it's more so I'm not sure exactly what I do want. Ok, that I can say either. I know, I know I'm going in circles. Here let me lay it all out for you: sure I'd love to say in the great "5-year plan" (thank you to the movie"Big Daddy") I have a bunch of dreams to have accomplished. I want to be all that I can be. I want to do what God has called me to do. In fact, I think it's what I need. I think everyone needs those two things, but you have to figure out exactly what that is.

So now my question for you is: what are your life dreams? What do you want your life to achieve? What are you going to be known for? No, no this isn't a redundant question, this is a real - hit me with the answer quesiton. I want to know. Hey, what if you have a great dream that I might want to add to my list? And no, I don't care to hear anything crude, rude or quite possibly something that you know is astoundingly ridiculous. Please spare me the gory details. I don't care if you want to win a pie eating contest, though be it an umm...interesting accomplishment. Where are you going to go? What are you going to do?

Are you going to get every last thing you can out of life? Are you going to "suck the marrow" and do all you can? Could you impact the world like Mother Teresa? WOW! Imagine changing lives everyday! Imagine lives still being changed after you are gone! What are you going to do to get everything out of every moment of your life?

"Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

"Suck all the marrow out of life."

John Keating - "Dead Poets Society"

"Dead Poets Society" - if you haven't seen it, watch it. Robin Williams challenges his students to get out there, do what they love and well, mostly he wants them to express themselves! To be the men that he sees in them.

So now it's your turn. Let the world know exactly what you are thinking. For some of you, just putting it out there will be a challenge. Some of you it will bubble out and over flow! It's going to be great.

No comments: