When we're young we can be whatever we want. "Daddy, I want to be a fireman, like fireman Sam" " Mummy I want to be an astronaut and go and have a picnic on the moon", "granny I want to be a footballer" We look, we smile, we say " that's great". As we get older things change and we start being more realistic. You want to be an astronaut? then you better study hard at school. You didn't get the qualifications for that? Well, here's an application for something else. Why not work in a call centre or have you considered office work? And as we get older we accept that. We accept that whatever we wanted, whatever we dreamed about doing is just that, a dream and nothing more. Yeah, it would be nice to follow that dream but lets face it, not everyone gets to live their dream and have the life they wanted. So we accept what we have and with a deep sigh of regret move on with our lives and fill in the application for the mundane job we never wanted. We get bored, we settle into it and maybe even start believing this is what we were always meant to do. We couldn't do anything else. We 're lucky to have this job. Apply for something else? No chance! They'll just say no anyway so why bother.
But it doesn't have to be like that. The only person stopping you from doing what you want to do is you. Sure others will scoff and may think your being daft even trying to change but don't let them tell you what you cant do. You may never be an astronaut,or a fireman, or whatever your dream job is but if you don't at least try to get there then you'll never know if you could have been. It's true, you might not complete the journey and end up where you wanted to be, but you might end up finding something else something different along the way that suits you better. You might never be a footballer but maybe you could be a sports journalist and write about it. The important thing is to start the journey and never give up. It sounds corny as hell but the journey IS just as important as the destination, maybe even more so. Never give up on your dream, never stop believing in yourself and then, eventually, others will believe in you too. Then you can talk about it over a cheese sandwich on the lunar surface.
