Have you ever imagined a place in life where you wanted to be about a life you, and in your dreams those places seems so real and yet so far away in time? Sometimes it feels so hard to ever reach there and that's not even a case of you dreaming too big but because life throws barriers our way. It could be financial limitations, lack of opportunities, not being in the right location or not knowing the right people. When we see these factors stack up, they can begin to make dreams feel distant, hopes look like stars that we can see but could never reach. I have felt that way before because I have experienced it.
I remember the times when I would look to those people who had made it, those who had arrived at where I thought I should be standing. And during those moments of reflection, I would either feel encouraged to keep going, or I would feel like those dreams were that much further away from me. Regardless, the answer was always up to me, I was the one to decide where I wanted to be. You need to understand that nobody is born great. Even those that are born into greatness must choose to take the walk, to follow the path of greatness. And those who began with nothing? They demonstrate for all of us that greatness is not passed down, it is built. Slowly, persistently, and at times with great pain.
One day I made the decision to never just dream again, but to maove towards achieving dreams. Step by step, I started pursuing the life I had imagined. And while I am not all the way there yet, the advancements I have made have already seen me in spaces I never thought I would be. Ironically, sometimes those advances did not come by my hard work alone. They came at unexpected times, with grace, with timing, and with things that seemed larger than me.
As a person that believes in God, I chalk these moments up to divinity. I believe that nothing happens by chance, that every open door, every surprising connection, every arbitrary moment that moved us ahead is part of something bigger. Even those who have achieved greatness in life will tell you that they made plans, they did the hard work, were disciplined and they were consistent.
But they will also tell you that there were things they could not pull together or orchestrate on their own. There were some things beyond them that made everything come together. So dream big but then work toward those dreams with everything you have. But you also need to understand that life has a mysterious way of putting us exactly where we need to be even sometimes in places we never thought we would be one day. And when that happens, be glad that it happened to that way, you might be standing in the middle of answered prayers.