I start with this clip of the famous speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because lately, my dreams have been forming and molding themselves into bigger dreams. I'm coming to the realization that my dream doesn't really have much to do with what I'm studying in school, but I've also come to the realization that it doesn't have to. All these years I have been stressing over and panicking about what I want to do with my life, what I want to do after college... I've always felt like everyone else has their whole lives figured out. I've always felt behind.
And, I mean, I kinda guess that I still do. I feel like what I'm doing won't really help me with what I want to end up doing, but I'm not going to change my plan. I like my plan for school. I love the subjects I'm studying. If I'm creative enough I'll be able to come up with a justification as to how they'll get me where I want to end up. We'll see.
My dream isn't as big or as meaningful as Dr. MLK Jr's. I'm not a civil rights activist. I love everyone and accept all walks of life, but my dreams aren't that big. My dreams are for my future. My dream is to be a person I can be proud of. My dream is to be strong, respectable, kind. My dream is to be a wife, loving and loyal to her husband. My dream is to be a Catholic, firm in her faith and devoted to God. My dream is to be a mother, always and forever a mother my child(ren) can look up to. My dream is to be the best me I can be.
My dream is to own a small coffee shop in a city or small town (yeah, I realize that means anywhere). I want to own a coffee shop and sell baked goods. I don't want to be Starbucks or Dunn Bros. I want it to feel like home to readers, musicians and neighbors. I want one wall to be a bookshelf, filled with literature of all types. Biographies, romances, comedies, tragedies, children's stories, mysteries, everything. I want my guests to feel free to browse the shelves and take and leave books to share with the community. I want that entire side of my shop to have comfy warm chairs and art to make it feel like home. I want the other side to have a small piano and tables and chairs and space for a musician to take a seat and play their acoustic music as they please. I want the atmosphere to be warm. I want my guests to lose their time in my shop and be drawn to the smell of warm food and coffee.
I don't know how I'll get there. I don't know what English Lit and Geography will do to get me there.. but I don't care. I just want to get there. I want that to be my end all goal.
Those are my dreams. What are yours?
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