Hopes and Dreams

Everyone has hopes and dreams, without them existence would be worthless.  About a year and a half ago I decided to go after one of my dreams, to have a real career.  In order to do this, I had to go back to school to finish (or should I say basically start) my degree.  As you can see in my profile, I am a single mother, and I wasn’t exactly sure how I was going to handle work, school, and the responsibilities that come with being a single parent.    The first semester, I struggled through two classes while working and caring for my then 10 year old son.  Soon it became obvious to me that I was going somewhere, but not very quickly, and if I was serious, I needed to make a drastic change, so I quit my job and went back to school full time – that was a year ago.  I thought it was the best decision I ever made, well, one other major decision I made in my life was even better, but that is for another time.  Anyway, recently I began questioning if I made the right decision.  I was down on myself, and my confidence level dropped.  I was quickly getting the “I don’t care” attitude about school.  I was telling a good friend about this, and he gave me the boost of confidence I needed.  He said,” I have confidence in you, I love to see people achieve their goals and for you to do that at such a later time in your life is an outstanding effort and one you can be proud of.  Not that you didn't achieve goals at (your past job), but what you are doing now in life is admirable because most people would be looking for a way to stop at this point and be happy with where they are at - not you, I can see you want better and are doing it the right way.  I am proud of you, keep it up and don't stop until you really achieve what your goal is - then, you get to establish new goals.  I was always told to have a long term goal but in order to reach it you must have short term goals to get there.  These short term goals build into stepping stones and self motivators.” The reason I am posting this, is to let anyone else that may be thinking twice about decisions made, that usually your first instinct is the best.  GO FOR IT!  Never give up, I’m not… Thanks David for your confidence in me and your inspiration!  Now I have to go do my Calculus homework!