Everything that we take for granted today was someone else’s dream yesterday.
Plumbing. Electricity. Internet. Cars. Lattes. Indoor heating. Air conditioning. Batteries. Computers. Cell phones. X-rays. Sterile surgical suites. If you can think of it, someone thought of it, and probably not that long ago.
Why shouldn’t your dream join it?
Maybe because you aren’t working on it.
If you have an idea—from a book to a science project, or anything in between—and you are convinced in your heart that it is the next best thing, then the question we all need to ask you is… “Are you working on it?”
We need your dreams. The future needs your dreams.
It will be hard. It will take time. It might even take most of your life. It will take belief, discipline, motivation, long nights, and endless days for most of those dreams. You will have to explain to people why it is a good idea, and you will have to ask yourself over and over again if it is truly a good idea. You may have to beg for funding and learn skills you never cared about just to get bits and pieces done outside your area of expertise.
It will be a road that becomes the journey of your life.
What are you waiting for? Everything that the world will take for granted tomorrow is the dream of someone today.
I had a dream, a dream of latte's in unnatural colors, linked to an old Broadway play, and interfacing with an important sugar based holiday! And now, that dream has been realized!
While I totally appreciate big dreams like sterility and cars, small dreams realized are a major source of enrichment in my life! Just keep on dreaming.